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Your Unidentifiable Squirming is loose!
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Category Story Event
Type Story
Data ID 288614

Your Unidentifiable Squirming is loose! is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description[ | ]

Someone is blowing a whistle frantically. Your Quartermaster has located a musket, and is charging towards the hold. It seems advisable to follow, before anything irretrievable happens.

The hold is in carnage. Splintered crates and oily excretions cover the floor. An angry knot of coils is trying to force its way out through the wall.

Game note: Once you have scooped up a Squirming from the mists it will keep trying to escape. Take it to Worlebury-juxta-Mare to cage it properly.


Trigger conditions[ | ]

Calendar icon DateAn Unfortunate Squirming,
Affiliationacadame square icon Unidentifiable Squirming ≥ 1
In Combat ≤ 0,
Area: The Sky
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions[ | ]

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Wrestle the Squirming into Submission
You won't stand for this!
    • Iron icon Iron challenge (75 for 100%)

Failed event Advanced alteration value probably needs examination.


A damp mistake
It's at the point where your upper arm plunges through a knot of writhing, wet, flesh that this begins to seem like a mistake. The moment when it rears and hisses confirms your suspicions. Something opens in the middle of it, revealing a nestful of barbed organs. You come to in your cabin. According to your First Officer, you had a narrow escape, as did the squirming: through your hull.
Successful event
A hard-fought victory
You march towards the boil of importunate writhings, and kick it firmly in the middle. Half of it rears, opening a serrated row of pulsing organs, and dives for your head. A good kicking later, and it's subdued enough for the crew to manhandle it into a more secure box. Hopefully, there it will remain.
Soothe the Squirming
Music can calm the savage beast.
    • Hearts icon Hearts challenge (75 for 100%)

Failed event
Everyone's a critic
One of your signallers has a lovely voice – although it's normally drowned out by the roar of the engines. Once he's stopped trembling, he delivers an old ballad in a lovely bass. The squirming nest's movements slow. It slides closer, as though to hear better— oh. It takes the entire crew to wrestle the thing into a sturdier box, and to sluice the floors clean of gore.
Successful event
Not quite tuneless
If there was ever a time to form a choir aboard your engine, this is it. A quick survey reveals a couple of seaside songs everybody knows. Marvellous. The acoustics are awful, and some of your stokers really have the most dreadful voices, but it is recognisably music. Halfway through an excruciating rendition of 'Oh! I do Like to be Beside the Seaside', the squirming ceases. Gingerly, it is manoeuvred into a more secure box.
Leave it be
You're not going near and nor should your crew.
Desperate pleas
"Captain!" A brief scream. An unfortunate squelching. A tang of ammonia in the air. One crewman reacted to your order a little too slowly. You are later informed that the hold has been mopped and the remains of the horror dropped into the Wilderness. It was easy to dispose of after its stomach exploded. Greedy thing.
Rare event (50%)
Stand back
You hold up a hand for calm. The writhing, squirming, ghastliness of it launches itself at the wall. Once, twice, thrice – and then with a crunch like the breaking of a man's skull, it's free. You see a flicker of scales in the drift, and then it's gone. There is a collective sigh of relief.

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