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The Vagabond's Obligation
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Category Journal
Type Officer: Amiable Vagabond
Data ID 140090

The Vagabond's Obligation is the personal quest of the Amiable Vagabond. Completing it will have consequences for all future captains in your lineage.

Description[]

"The Amiable Vagabond has certain obligations."

Guide[]

The gimmick of this quest is Friendship with the Vagabond. At several points you are given two choices of how to proceed; one will increase Friendship with the Vagabond (usually at increased cost), while the other will not. High friendship will alter one of the endings, but is not required for any promotions.

To begin the quest, talk to the Amiable Vagabond on your engine. He will request you visit the Skylarks in Port Avon.

Cost

1. Port Avon[]

Enter The Court of the Skylarks and exhaust all options before returning. You will learn that a skylark named Quivers has gone missing.

Cost Rewards

2. Lustrum[]

Talk to the Amiable Vagabond on your engine. He will ask you to take him to his old home in Lustrum. When next you visit, you can access The Vagabond's Residence, where you will find a letter from Quivers claiming to have found the 'Sugarspun Garden'. The Vagabond claims this is a myth, but asks that you help him track down Quivers.

Cost Rewards

3. London[]

Talk to the Amiable Vagabond on your engine. He will suggest consulting a friend of Quivers' named Ratbite. She is imprisoned in London, where you can Help the Amiable Vagabond plot an Escape. You have the option of performing a difficult Veils challenge to break Ratbite out, which will improve Friendship with the Vagabond, or getting her out with a Cryptic Benefactor, which will not.

Option Cost Rewards Notes
Pull off a complex, ambitious heist You will only lose the Sky-Story and Unseasoned Hours if you fail, but must wait 15 days to try again.
Just use your connections to quash her trial None

4. Achlys[]

Talk to the Amiable Vagabond on your engine. For the price of 1 Supplies, Ratbite will tell you Quivers was seeking an untranslated skylark sign in Achlys. Head there to investigate The Achlys Signs, where you will find a drunk skylark. Sobering up the skylark will gain you Friendship with the Vagabond, but is not required to progress.

Option Cost Rewards Notes
Sober the skylark up with a good horror story
Persuade him to take pride in being a skylark
    • Hearts challenge (84 for 100%)
 If you fail, the quest will advance without gaining Friendship with the Vagabond.

After completing this event, you will receive Ratbite's Warning. She will tell you the Amiable Vagabond is Old Tom, and that he isn't to be trusted. Your response may affect Friendship with the Vagabond. Siding against Ratbite will cause her to leave your engine, which will prevent you from acquiring the Incorrigible Vagabond.

Option Result
Tell Ratbite not to spread unpleasant rumours
Smoothly change topic None
Ask the Vagabond if he's hiding anything

After, talk to the Amiable Vagabond on your engine to trigger the Mysterious Signs event. Helping him decode the signs will reveal they point to Old Tom's Well.

Cost Rewards

The Vagabond will confirm that he is indeed Old Tom, and his sister is The Lank Minister. He believes she is luring skylarks to sacrifice to the Well. However, the price for the blessing he obtained from the Well is that he can never return. To confront his sister, you must help him perform a ritual at Leadbeater & Stainrod's Nature Reserve.

Optional: Old Tom's Secret[]

At this point, you can optionally visit Old Tom's Well to confront The Lank Minister with what you've learned. She will claim the Vagabond has lied to you: The real price of his bargain was that he sacrifice himself to the Well after a year, but the ritual he devised creates a scapegoat that can be sacrificed in his place. This will gain you a Savage Secret and the Old Tom's Secret quality. This is necessary to obtain the Incorrigible Vagabond.

Once you know Old Tom's Secret, you can accuse the Vagabond aboard your engine, whereupon he will confess his sister is telling the truth. This will end the quest and remove him from your engine, but your next captain can restart the story.

Rewards

5. Leadbeater & Stainrod's Nature Reserve[]

After supplying the necessary materials, you will begin The Garden-Rite.

Cost

The choice you make here determines the result of the quest.

Conclusion: Old Tom's Well[]

After completing the Garden-Rite, talk to the Amiable Vagabond on your engine, then visit Old Tom's Well and begin Old Tom and the Well. The conclusion will play out depending on the choice you made during the Garden-Rite. If you poured out both cups, or if you drank from your cup but have Friendship with the Vagabond at 3 or more, you will enter At the Well's Edge and can choose between letting the Vagabond die or promoting him to the Dendrified Vagabond.

Option Result
Tell Old Tom that you switched the cups

OR

Let the Vagabond fall to his doom
Pull the Vagabond back from the brink
Tell Old Tom that you have prepared a different scapegoat

Quality status[]

The Vagabond's Obligation has different statuses according to your actions, defined by the comment in front of the quality.

Journal description[]

  • [10] Accompany the Vagabond on a visit to his fellow skylarks at Port Avon
  • [20] The Vagabond's wanderlust is never sated. If you talk to him again, he might wish to visit somewhere new
  • [30] Accompany the Vagabond to his old home in Lustrum
  • [31] Speak to the Vagabond in his residence in Lustrum
  • [40] Talk to the Vagabond about the missing skylark, Quivers
  • [50] Break Quivers' old partner-in-crime, Ratbite, from prison in London so you can learn more about where he went
  • [60] Speak to the Vagabond. Together, you will ask Ratbite about her old partner-in-crime, Quivers
  • [70] Find the final untranslated skylark sign in Achlys
  • [75] Help the Vagabond study the undeciphered skylark signs that Quivers discovered
  • [77] Interrogate the Vagabond about his hidden past
  • [80] Raise the question of the Vagabond returning to the well
  • [90] Go to Leadbeater and Stainrod Nature Reserve and help the Vagabond complete his ritual
  • [100] Ask the Vagabond if now he's ready to travel to Old Tom's Well
  • [110] Journey to Old Tom's Well and confront the Vagabond's sister
  • [120] A sacrifice must be made
  • [150] [COMPLETE]The Vagabond finally paid his debt
  • [160] [COMPLETE]The Vagabond broke his pact with the remnant in the well. In punishment, it made him finally put down roots
  • [180] [COMPLETE]You made a scapegoat of Ratbite, and sacrificed her in your stead. Now you have promised the Vagabond that you will help him gather more victims
  • [200] [COMPLETE]You confronted the Vagabond with the horrible truth about his misdeeds, and he has now left your employ

Interaction description[]

These desciptions appear specifically when the value changes.

  • [10] Accompany the Vagabond on a visit to his fellow skylarks at Port Avon.
  • [20] The Vagabond's wanderlust is never sated. If you talk to him again, he might wish to visit somewhere new.
  • [30] Accompany the Vagabond to his old home in Lustrum.
  • [31] Continue your conversation with the Vagabond in his Lustrum mansion.
  • [40] Talk to the Vagabond about the missing skylark, Quivers.
  • [50] Break Quivers' old partner-in-crime, Ratbite, from prison in London so you can learn more about where he went.
  • [60] Speak to the Vagabond. Together, you will ask Ratbite about her old partner-in-crime, Quivers.
  • [70] Find the final untranslated skylark sign in Achlys.
  • [75] Help the Vagabond study the undeciphered skylark signs that Quivers discovered.
  • [77] Interrogate the Vagabond about his hidden past.
  • [78] Continue interrogating the Vagabond about his hidden past.
  • [80] Raise the question of the Vagabond returning to the well.
  • [90] Go to Leadbeater and Stainrod Nature Reserve and help the Vagabond complete his ritual.
  • [100] Ask the Vagabond if now he's ready to travel to Old Tom's Well.
  • [110] Journey to Old Tom's Well and confront the Vagabond's sister.
  • [120] A sacrifice must be made.
  • [150] The Vagabond finally paid his debt.
  • [160] The Vagabond broke his pact with the remnant in the well. In punishment, it made him finally put down roots.
  • [180] You made a scapegoat of Ratbite, and sacrificed her in your stead. Now you have promised the Vagabond that you will help him gather more victims.
  • [200] You confronted the Vagabond with the horrible truth about his misdeeds, and he has now left your employ.

Variable Interaction description[]

These desciptions appear when a specific group is called for text.

lustrum_description[]

  • [30] You follow the Vagabond past Lustrum's outskirts, into the whirling whiteness beyond. Miles from civilisation, you find a mansion half-buried in snow, perched on a rocky outcrop. The Vagabond wades to the door and slams on the iron knocker.\n\nAfter some time, the door eases open. A doddery butler peers out, his face so downcast it looks half-melted. \"Welcome back, sir,\" says the Tragic Butler wearily. \"A letter was delivered in your absence.\"
  • [31] The Vagabond sips his whisky before the fireplace, telling rambling stories about the parties he threw in the mansion's better days. The Tragic Butler stands to one side, mournfully dignified.
  • [35] The Vagabond sips his whisky before the fireplace, telling rambling stories about the parties he threw in the mansion's better days. The Tragic Butler stands to one side, mournfully dignified."

old_tom[]

  • [0]
  • [110] The well-winds whip at your garments. The Vagabond's beard and coat flap wildly as he strides toward his pale, gaunt sister.\n\n\"Greetings, brother,\" says the Lank Minister with unconcealed contempt.\n\n\"Sister!\" booms the Vagabond, with an exaggerated bow. \"Aren't you going to thank me? I've brought your master another gift.\"
  • [120] Old Tom grips your shoulder and marches you to the well's edge. Fathomless darkness hungers below.\n\nThe Lank Minister and her followers have dropped in supplication, their faces pressed into the coal-black ice. \"Here's another one,\" mutters Old Tom, staring down intently. \"Their soul is bound to mine.\"\n\nYou follow his gaze and, for a moment, you can see almost to the well's depths. A glisten of foetid gold; a cluster of pale, grasping trees.

Interactions[]

Interactions in Brief[]

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Interaction Action Result Type Change
Old Tom's Well 'Amiable Vagabond: Journey to the well's edge with Old Tom' Requirement ≥ 110 ≤ 110
The Village Green 'Amiable Vagabond: Seek out the Court of the Skylarks' Requirement ≥ 10 ≤ 10
The Amiable Vagabond 'Swap stories with the Vagabond' Requirement ≤ 0
The Amiable Vagabond 'Swap stories with the Vagabond' Default / Challenge Fail = 10
The Amiable Vagabond 'Speak of the wonders in the sky' Requirement ≥ 20 ≤ 20
The Amiable Vagabond 'Speak of the wonders in the sky' Default / Challenge Fail = 30
The Amiable Vagabond 'Ask about the Vagabond's plan to track down Quivers' Requirement ≥ 40 ≤ 40
The Amiable Vagabond 'Ask about the Vagabond's plan to track down Quivers' Default / Challenge Fail = 50
The Amiable Vagabond 'Talk to Ratbite over dinner' Requirement ≥ 60 ≤ 60
The Amiable Vagabond 'Talk to Ratbite over dinner' Default / Challenge Fail = 70
The Amiable Vagabond 'Study Quivers' book of mysterious signs' Requirement ≥ 75 ≤ 75
The Amiable Vagabond 'Raise the question of journeying to Old Tom's Well' Requirement ≥ 80 ≤ 80
The Amiable Vagabond 'Raise the question of journeying to Old Tom's Well' Default / Challenge Fail = 90
The Amiable Vagabond 'Is Old Tom ready to visit his eponymous well?' Requirement ≥ 100 ≤ 100
The Amiable Vagabond 'Is Old Tom ready to visit his eponymous well?' Default / Challenge Fail = 110
The Amiable Vagabond 'Confront the Vagabond and have him thrown in the brig' Default / Challenge Fail = 200
The Amiable Vagabond 'Ask why the Vagabond hid his identity for so long' Requirement ≥ 77 ≤ 79
The Amiable Vagabond 'Ask why the Vagabond hid his identity for so long' Default / Challenge Fail +1
The Amiable Vagabond 'Ask if the Vagabond saw anything within Old Tom's Well' Requirement ≥ 77 ≤ 79
The Amiable Vagabond 'Ask if the Vagabond saw anything within Old Tom's Well' Default / Challenge Fail +1
The Amiable Vagabond 'Ask why the skylark signs lead to Old Tom's Well' Requirement ≥ 77 ≤ 79
The Amiable Vagabond 'Ask why the skylark signs lead to Old Tom's Well' Default / Challenge Fail +1
The Court of the Skylarks 'Leave the skylarks' camp' Default / Challenge Fail = 20
The Vagabond's Residence 'Explore the mansion' Default / Challenge Fail = 31
The Vagabond's Residence 'Ask how the Vagabond could afford such a place' Default / Challenge Fail = 31
The Vagabond's Residence 'Ask about the Butler's letter' Requirement ≤ 34
The Vagabond's Residence 'Ask about the Butler's letter' Default / Challenge Fail = 35
The Vagabond's Residence 'Spend the night at the Vagabond's mansion' Requirement ≥ 35
The Vagabond's Residence 'Spend the night at the Vagabond's mansion' Default / Challenge Fail = 40
Help the Amiable Vagabond plot an Escape 'Just use your connections to quash her trial' Default / Challenge Fail = 60
Help the Amiable Vagabond plot an Escape 'Pull off a complex, ambitious heist' Success = 60
The Achlys Signs 'Search for the sign without meaning' Default / Challenge Fail = 75
Mysterious Signs 'Help him decipher the signs' Requirement ≥ 75 ≤ 75
Mysterious Signs 'Help him decipher the signs' Default / Challenge Fail = 77
The Garden-Rite 'Switch the cups' Default / Challenge Fail = 100
The Garden-Rite 'Drink from your assigned cup' Default / Challenge Fail = 100
The Garden-Rite 'Pour both cups away and replace the contents' Default / Challenge Fail = 100
Old Tom and the Well 'Ask the Lank Minister what happened to Quivers' Requirement ≥ 110 ≤ 110
Old Tom and the Well 'Ask the Lank Minister what happened to Quivers' Default / Challenge Fail = 120
Old Tom and the Well 'Tell the Vagabond that you know why he's brought you here' Requirement ≥ 110 ≤ 110
Old Tom and the Well 'Tell the Vagabond that you know why he's brought you here' Default / Challenge Fail = 120
Old Tom and the Well 'Tell Old Tom that you switched the cups' Requirement ≥ 120 ≤ 120
Old Tom and the Well 'Tell Old Tom that you switched the cups' Default / Challenge Fail = 150
Old Tom and the Well 'Struggle against the well-winds' Requirement ≥ 120 ≤ 120
Old Tom and the Well 'Struggle against the well-winds' Requirement ≥ 120 ≤ 120
Old Tom and the Well 'Tell Old Tom that you poured both cups away' Requirement ≥ 120 ≤ 120
Old Tom and the Well 'Tell Old Tom that you have prepared a different scapegoat' Requirement ≥ 120 ≤ 120
Old Tom and the Well 'Tell Old Tom that you have prepared a different scapegoat' Default / Challenge Fail = 180
At the Well's Edge 'Pull the Vagabond back from the brink' Default / Challenge Fail = 160
At the Well's Edge 'Let the Vagabond fall to his doom' Default / Challenge Fail = 150

Interactions in Detail[]

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Story Action Required Effect
Old Tom's Well Amiable Vagabond: Journey to the well's edge with Old Tom
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 110 [Journey to Old Tom's Well and confront the Vagabond's sister]
 Default:


The Village Green Amiable Vagabond: Seek out the Court of the Skylarks
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 10 [Accompany the Vagabond on a visit to his fellow skylarks at Port Avon]
 Default:


The Amiable Vagabond Swap stories with the Vagabond
    • The Vagabond's Obligation ≤ 0
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 10 [Accompany the Vagabond on a visit to his fellow skylarks at Port Avon]
Speak of the wonders in the sky
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 20 [The Vagabond's wanderlust is never sated. If you talk to him again, he might wish to visit somewhere new]
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 30 [Accompany the Vagabond to his old home in Lustrum]
Ask about the Vagabond's plan to track down Quivers
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 40 [Talk to the Vagabond about the missing skylark, Quivers]
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 50 [Break Quivers' old partner-in-crime, Ratbite, from prison in London so you can learn more about where he went]
Talk to Ratbite over dinner
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 60 [Speak to the Vagabond. Together, you will ask Ratbite about her old partner-in-crime, Quivers]
 Default:
Study Quivers' book of mysterious signs
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 75 [Help the Vagabond study the undeciphered skylark signs that Quivers discovered]
 Default:
Raise the question of journeying to Old Tom's Well
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 80 [Raise the question of the Vagabond returning to the well]
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 90 [Go to Leadbeater and Stainrod Nature Reserve and help the Vagabond complete his ritual]
Is Old Tom ready to visit his eponymous well?
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 100 [Ask the Vagabond if now he's ready to travel to Old Tom's Well]
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 110 [Journey to Old Tom's Well and confront the Vagabond's sister]
Confront the Vagabond and have him thrown in the brig Default:
Ask why the Vagabond hid his identity for so long Default:
Ask if the Vagabond saw anything within Old Tom's Well Default:
Ask why the skylark signs lead to Old Tom's Well Default:


The Court of the Skylarks Leave the skylarks' camp Default:


The Vagabond's Residence Explore the mansion Default:
Ask how the Vagabond could afford such a place Default:
Ask about the Butler's letter
    • The Vagabond's Obligation ≤ 34
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 35 [Speak to the Vagabond in his residence in Lustrum]
Spend the night at the Vagabond's mansion
    • The Vagabond's Obligation ≥ 35
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 40 [Talk to the Vagabond about the missing skylark, Quivers]


Help the Amiable Vagabond plot an Escape Just use your connections to quash her trial Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 60 [Speak to the Vagabond. Together, you will ask Ratbite about her old partner-in-crime, Quivers]
Pull off a complex, ambitious heist Success:


The Achlys Signs Search for the sign without meaning
Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 75 [Help the Vagabond study the undeciphered skylark signs that Quivers discovered]
    Triggers event:  Ratbite's Warning


Mysterious Signs Help him decipher the signs
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 75 [Help the Vagabond study the undeciphered skylark signs that Quivers discovered]
 Default:


The Garden-Rite Switch the cups None Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 100 [Ask the Vagabond if now he's ready to travel to Old Tom's Well]
Drink from your assigned cup None Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 100 [Ask the Vagabond if now he's ready to travel to Old Tom's Well]
Pour both cups away and replace the contents None Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 100 [Ask the Vagabond if now he's ready to travel to Old Tom's Well]


Old Tom and the Well Ask the Lank Minister what happened to Quivers
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 110 [Journey to Old Tom's Well and confront the Vagabond's sister]
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 120 [A sacrifice must be made]
Tell the Vagabond that you know why he's brought you here
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 110 [Journey to Old Tom's Well and confront the Vagabond's sister]
 Default:
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 120 [A sacrifice must be made]
Tell Old Tom that you switched the cups
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 120 [A sacrifice must be made]
 Default:
Struggle against the well-winds Default:
Struggle against the well-winds Default:
Tell Old Tom that you poured both cups away
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 120 [A sacrifice must be made]
 Default:
Tell Old Tom that you have prepared a different scapegoat Default:


At the Well's Edge Pull the Vagabond back from the brink None Default:
Let the Vagabond fall to his doom None Default:


Triggered Events[]

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Story Requirements Type Location
The Court of the Skylarks
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 10 [Accompany the Vagabond on a visit to his fellow skylarks at Port Avon]
 Story Event (Always :100%) Limbo
The Vagabond's Residence
    • The Vagabond's Obligation ≥ 30 ≤ 39
 Story Event (Always :100%) Prospector's Quarter
Help the Amiable Vagabond plot an Escape
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 50 [Break Quivers' old partner-in-crime, Ratbite, from prison in London so you can learn more about where he went]
 Story Event (Always :100%) St Dominic's Station
Prepare for the Vagabond's Rite
    • The Vagabond's Obligation = 90 [Go to Leadbeater and Stainrod Nature Reserve and help the Vagabond complete his ritual]
 Story Event (Always :100%) Anywhere

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