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Sunless Sea (Video Game)
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Sunless Sea is a Role-Playing Game from Failbetter Games, the creators of Fallen London, released 6 February 2015, following a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Set in the Fallen London universe, the game casts the player as the captain of a steamship, exploring the Unterzee — the colossal, largely uncharted underground lake that surrounds the sunken city. Noted influences include roguelikes with action elements, like FTL: Faster Than Light and Don't Starve; Wide-Open Sandbox exploration and trading games like Sid Meier's Pirates!, Elite and Taipan!; The Crimson Permanent Assurance; and immrama.The game is very open ended, letting the player build their captain by choosing from a wide variety of backgrounds and ambitions. Said captain then journeys unto the Unterzee with their ship, where they can undertake endeavors such as exploration, the trading of goods, battling enemy ships and "zee monsters", and completing "storylet" quests. There are five stats a player can choose to improve on as they continue their travels the Neath: Iron (fighting prowess, which gives you better damage output in combat and governs how well your captain can handle physical situations in storylets); Mirrors (perception, which enables you to fire your weapons faster in combat and governs how alert your captain is and their ability to pay attention to detail in storylets); Veils (deception, which makes it harder for enemies to detect you out on the Unterzee and governs how good at stealth and telling convicing lies your captain is in storylets); Pages (Knowledge, which allows you to convert Fragments into Secrets faster and governs how good your captain is at overcoming intellectual challenges and puzzles in storylets); and Hearts (Willpower, which governs your captain's ability to overcome tests of their courage and take charge and inspire others in storylets).The eventual end-goal is fulfilling the captain's chosen ambition, though it will probably not happen on the first try, as the game very much employs Trial-and-Error Gameplay. The player's first few captains are more likely than not to have their quest end in resounding failure and meet with a dark and grim fate, as the player gradually learns the mechanics and finer workings of the game. Subsequent captains can inherit some of their predecessor's possessions, and the player can make their captains draft a will to ensure lodging and wealth for their successors.The game is available through Humble Bundle, GOG.com and Steam, and became available for Playstation 4 in 2018 and the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One in 2020. The Zubmariner expansion pack, featuring underwater exploration, was released on 11 October 2016. A sequel, Sunless Skies, came to Kickstarter on February 1st, 2017, and was fully funded within hours of it going live. | |
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Far East | |
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Far East: The New Khanate, though ostensibly the successors of the now-destroyed Fourth City Karakorum, had long since given up the ways of warriors and nomads; their architecture and much of their visible culture is somewhat Chinese, and their overall portrayal ends up a mishmash of everything "Oriental". Somewhat justified by the fact that this perception is comparatively period-accurate for a Londoner from the late 1800s. | |
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Starfish Language | |
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Starfish Language: Whatever language the Rubbery Men speak, humans cannot seem to make heads or tails of. On top of that, the Rubbery Man recruitable as your officer seems to be one of a very few able to speak a human language. | |
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Supernatural Gold Eyes | |
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Supernatural Gold Eyes: People touched by the Dawn Machine have gold-flecked eyes and light-infused glowing irises and are commonly described as "bright-eyed". For this reason, most of them choose to wear Sinister Shades and can be identified by them. The Dark-Spectacled Admiral averts this, though he is keenly aware of the Dawn Machine conspiracy. | |
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Abnormal Ammo | |
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Abnormal Ammo: The Icarus in Black, which fires extremely angry and suicidal monster hunters. The reason it's actually able to do this at all essentially amounts to "Made in Iron Republic". It can kill pretty much any monster in the game in one shot — bosses in two — but each shot costs the rough equivalent of 1000 Echoes. | |
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City on the Water | |
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City on the Water: The New Khanate's cities are variations on this style: Khan's Heart and Khan's Glory form a stately City of Canals on a series of artificial islands, while the other side of the Enemy Civil War, Khan's Shadow, is a colossal assemblage of ships roped together. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: If you get near the Dawn Machine, the logbook will simply say "THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN". This is even repeated in the Dawn Machine's Supremacy quality description. | |
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Early Game Hell | |
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Early Game Hell: In the beginning, just making enough Echoes to keep your ship consistently fuelled and provisioned can be a challenge, with a degree of luck required to find the opportunities to break out of that state. Furthermore, your starting equipment makes taking on or being attacked by anything other than bats, Jillyfleurs and Megalopses a death sentence, so be prepared to flee and hope your engine outruns the enemy or they give up the chase. The difficulty eases up as you unlock Legacy Qualities that increase your starting stats and pass on accumulated wealth to subsequent captains, allowing them to jump over the initial difficulty hump. | |
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Purely Aesthetic Gender | |
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Purely Aesthetic Gender: As is standard in Failbetter games, the Player Character can be addressed as male, female, or any of a number of other descriptors, without limiting their stats, portrait, or options in dalliances. For that matter, if you have a romance with someone in London you can eventually get a letter and choose if your character sired a child or will give birth to one, regardless of your portrait or pronouns or those of your lover. There's even an option where your lover has adopted, and a game note saying "Choose this option if you're unlikely to be either a father or mother." And then you have the option of whether the child calls you Father, Mother, or Captain. | |
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Item Caddy | |
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Item Caddy: The Caligo-class Merchant Cruiser isn't very expensive (costing only 8000 Echoes), but comes with the largest hold at 120 (compare to the Frigate, which costs 15000 Echoes and has only 70 Hold, and the Dreadnought, which costs 30000 Echoes and has 100 Hold). This vessel allows you to get the maximum value out of trading and makes quests that require large amounts of Hold slots far easier to accommodate (the purchase of Dawn's Law and the construction of the Fulgent Impeller being fine examples). The two drawbacks are that the ship isn't really suitable to combat due to the lack of a Forward cannon mount, and is as heavy as the Dreadnought, so travelling takes a lot of time (unless you have the aforementioned Impeller). | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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The Dawn Machine brings its own twist to the trope, its light primarily making creatures and vessels that come in contact with it Brainwashed and Crazy, but also more powerful than they were before. | |
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Redemption Quest | |
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Redemption Quest: The Admiralty is known to offer traitors and criminals a chance at redeeming themselves by having them make a dangerous pilgrimage to Avid Horizon, where they record their crimes and useful information on a pillar there. Once some poor schmuck of a Zee-captain brings the names there back to London, they'll then pick those who will be pardoned. | |
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Big First Choice | |
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Big First Choice: The choice of an Ambition is made at character creation and determines the current captain's victory condition. A character who chooses no background cannot pick an Ambition and has to either reveal their past or pick one of the game's secret Ambitions in order to win the game. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: If you don't die at zee, get stranded on the surface or get taken by Mr Sacks, depending on your Ambition, you might end the game either by retiring from zee-faring to a life of luxury, becoming London's most venerated explorer, finding and burying your father's bones, taking over Nidah and gaining immortality, being rewarded with one of the kingdoms of the Presbyterate, founding your own kingdom at Aestival, or sailing beyond the Zee out of the world to the Uttermost East. There are also secret endings with no Ambition objective associated with them: You can accompany the Merchant Venturer and pass through the Avid Horizon to the High Wilderness, steal the Monkey Emperor's Zeppelin, or become the lover of Lady Black. Depending on which faction's Supremacy you max out, London can be returned to something like its former glory, turned into a Khanate Puppet State, brought under Revolutionary control, or taken over completely by the New Sequence. | |
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Violation of Common Sense | |
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Violation of Common Sense: Advancing through Frostfound requires you to max out your Terror and/or sacrifice your stat points, though it does reward you with a Searing Enigma (and possibly some other goodies, plus one of three curses) if you finally reach the centre. Particularly pronounced for the Name-Which-Burns storylet in the Dark Room, which will badly hurt you even if you're successful and requires a long, masochistically difficult questline to be completed before you can access it. | |
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The Blank | |
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A Snuffer's "real" face is little more than a bloody, weeping gnarl of skinless flesh. | |
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The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay | |
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The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay: Many firms in the naval industry have such names: Cotterell & Hathersage, Leadbeater & Stainrod, Iron & Misery Company, Soothe & Cooper... | |
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Human Resources | |
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Human Resources: Crew are sometimes used as trade goods or worse. Several quests even require you to hand over crew members to other parties to advance. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: The three gods of the zee - Stone, Storm, and Salt - are never encountered in the flesh. It's possible they don't even exist, but several game mechanics reflecting their attention or displeasure seem to indicate they're quite real. Completing the Uttermost East ending implies that the player character ''is'', somehow, Salt. Also, in the Immortality Ambition, you're breaching Stone to get it. | |
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I Surrender, Suckers | |
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I Surrender, Suckers: The bad ending of a Mutiny where your Hearts weren't enough. You try and talk the mutineers down and seemingly get through to the leader, who lays down his weapon, causing you to come out of cover... right in time for the second-in-command to shoot you. | |
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Boss Battle | |
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Boss Battle: There exist a number of exceptionally powerful ships and beasts out on the Zee - the Tree of Ages and Mount Nomad; the Irrepressible and the Eater of Names. Fighting them is ill-advised without preparation, but potentially very rewarding. | |
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Androcles' Lion | |
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Androcles' Lion: If you've played along with the Monkey Foundling's little game and treated her well, she will come to your rescue in the Tomb of the First Emperor. | |
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Weird World, Weird Food | |
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Weird World, Weird Food: You will probably need to resort to eating the various monstrosities that attack your ship at one point or another. Results will vary very, very wildly, going from heavenly to so disgusting tasters have been known to end their lives immediately after tasting without another word, and that's not getting into the various horrible poisonings. | |
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Church Militant | |
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Church Militant: Abbey Rock, the coastal convent-fortress of the martial Sisterhood, and Godfall, home to the boisterous pirate-monks who follow the ways of "St Stalagmite." The admiralty even classifies the Abbey Rock convent as a military installation. | |
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Not What I Signed on For | |
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Not What I Signed on For: Pillaging merchant shipping, and consequently murdering civilians in cold blood, will sometimes drive one of your zailors to commit suicide in despair. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The Neath is a horrific place, as evidenced by the existence of the crew's Terror Meter. The player is at various times in danger from pirates addicted to psychedelic honey; blood-sucking sea-bats; demons; giant sea monsters; snakes that inhabit the world of dreams; a false god created by a military conspiracy; and a giant mountain made out of glass that eat ships. To name a few. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Always a risk when lost at zee, with limited supplies and a cook who's going quietly insane. And then there's Unaccountably Peckish... If you're both a Priest and Unaccountably Peckish while pursuing Your Father's Bones, it turns out that your father was a debased cannibal who served the Chapel of Lights. One of the Presbyterate's kingdoms practices ritual cannibalism of their dead at Adam's Way, as a way of gaining their relatives' traits (intellect, strength, wisdom, etc.) They may invite your Captain to join them if they're Unaccountably Peckish. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: The "Wounding Truth" quality counts how many times you've chosen to tell people the truth, no matter how painful it is. | |
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Ocean Madness | |
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Ocean Madness: It has less to do with the fact that the zee is inherently maddening and more to do with the fact that it is dark, monster-infested, and prone to rearranging itself, but Terror will be your constant sanity-draining bane. The darkness of the Unterzee, however, is explicitly described as cancelling out reason and sanity from the world in several encounters, which further reinforces this. | |
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Real-Time with Pause | |
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Real-Time with Pause: Combat and zailing play out in pausible real time. The clock stops when you have the Gazetteer open, which is usually in a port but can also be done manually or during random events. | |
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A Homeowner Is You | |
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A Homeowner Is You: You can buy a house in London, which is needed to raise your child, create heirlooms and build the Zong of the Zee. The basic version is an inexpensive townhouse. You can upgrade to a much more expensive mansion, which confers some fringe benefits (a higher heirloom limit and resting there is moderately more effective). | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: If the player makes a trip to the surface, a splash image of a sunrise is shown in place of the regular Zee map for as long as they remain. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2726d167 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2726d167 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2726d167 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_27690f66 | type |
Literary Allusion Title | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_27690f66 | comment |
Literary Allusion Title: To Kubla Khan. Doubly appropriate, as Xanadu is of established importance in the setting's lore. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_27690f66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_27690f66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_27690f66 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2854b56d | type |
Uncertain Doom | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2854b56d | comment |
Uncertain Doom: If the Wistful Deviless is a traitor to the Brass Embassy and delivered there, your last sight of her is her being lead off to the ominously-named Excruciation Annex. Maybe's daughter might not return from the Sundered Sea beneath the Bazaar. However, it's not entirely clear whether she dies down there, is stuck down there but still alive, or chooses to leave you of her own volition; even Penstock simply states that "you won't see her again" without elaborating further. If Your Father is returned to London without paying his debts, he surrenders himself to the Gracious Widow and you never see him again. The protagonist is left to speculate over his fate. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2854b56d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2854b56d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2854b56d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_28cd01ca | type |
Disappeared Dad | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_28cd01ca | comment |
Disappeared Dad: One of the possible ambitions of your captain is to find the remains of their father, who disappeared at zee. If you captain is a Natural Philosopher, their father is discovered to still be alive. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_28cd01ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_28cd01ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_28cd01ca | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_293e404e | type |
Island of Mystery | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_293e404e | comment |
Island of Mystery: Would be more straightforward to list the ones that aren't. Irem probably the pick of the bunch for being literally inexplicable. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_293e404e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_293e404e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_293e404e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2973a4d6 | type |
Turtle Island | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2973a4d6 | comment |
Turtle Island: The Chelonate, a city built on the floating carcass of a colossal turtle. Its inhabitants subsist largely on the the products of the zee - they wear sharks' skin and drink their blood. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2973a4d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2973a4d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2973a4d6 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | type |
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | comment |
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Mostly averted; the prices of various commodities and essentials varies between ports with reasonable justifications (e.g. London has fair, manageable prices, Surface-food grown freely under the Sun is cheap, fuel from a colony of Hell is cheap, but provisioners on a distant backwater island charge twice as much for fuel and supplies as elsewhere). Invoked, however, in Khan's Heart: you will be extorted if you don't have a licence to trade in the city's proper market district (though if you managed to get a proper trading license, their price becomes reasonable, and you'll also get access to wider variety of trade goods). | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2a090d00 | type |
Lampshade Hanging | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Lampshade Hanging: | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2a090d00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2a090d00 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2a090d00 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d | type |
The Dreaded | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d | comment |
The Dreaded: The Irrepressible is described as the most feared vessel on the zee, courtesy of being a souped-up zubmarine with guns firing mind-destroying Irrigo rounds and a crew of Mad Artists. The Pianolist (its captain) is a terror in his own right, to the point where even the otherwise gleefully psychotic Merciless Modiste is afraid of him - and for very good reason. The Eater of Names and Tree of Ages aren't far behind in terms of how dreaded they are, due to their sheer aggression and reputation for killing anything that gets too close. Your crew even flatly refuse to commandeer the former if it's defeated and remains intact, even though they're willing to raid the likes of the Irrepressible for supplies. Lady Black. Merely mentioning her name is enough to send a group of seasoned captains fleeing as fast as their legs will take them. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2ae29c0d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | type |
Awesome, but Impractical | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Alternately, the Awesome, but Impractical Cladery Heart will let you completely skip the Veils check and the hull damage. This still doesn't make the Cladery Heart any better of a ship, unfortunately. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2c77fae3 | type |
Darkness Equals Death | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2c77fae3 | comment |
Darkness Equals Death: In a similar system to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, extinguishing your ship's lights can help you hide from enemies and creep past zee-monsters without waking them, but the darkness prevents you from navigating or seeing foes clearly and drains your crew's Sanity Meter. If you choose to explore the Shattered Citadel under Godfall, you'd better make sure you've got enough Foxfire Candles to complete the journey. If you run out, it will not be pretty. The city of Varchas takes this to an extreme - there are no shadows or darkness allowed within the city, ever. When the lights are extinguished, you learn why. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2c77fae3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2c77fae3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2c77fae3 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2cd22076 | type |
Fantastic Drug | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2cd22076 | comment |
Isle of Cats, home to the Pirate-King and the biggest farm of red honey, deals in the most forbidden of goods. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2cd22076 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2cd22076 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2cd22076 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | type |
Ax-Crazy | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
"Lose your mind." and "Eat your crew." are exactly the same words you see when you reached Kingeater's Castle and are exactly what you do according to the logbook. Fortunately, it is not mandatory to do so. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d840c9b | type |
ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d840c9b | comment |
Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: A trade good of the game, coming in several varieties of potency. The Dread Surmise in particular is implied to be this. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d840c9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d840c9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2d840c9b | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2e84972a | type |
Piñata Enemy | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2e84972a | comment |
Piñata Enemy: Pirate Frigates, and their zubmarine counterparts, Corsair Undergalleys, generally net you 1-2 units each of supply and fuel, plus a random loot item like those you get from smaller and larger vessels, and sinking them takes little effort once you can afford a decent weapon + Iron skill. If the Random Number God is feeling unkind, though, all you'll get is a loot item worth a few dozen Echoes. The Pirate-Poet is a tougher variant on Steam-Pinnace who always grants 1 each of fuel/supplies, between 100-500 Echoes, and a crate drop. She spawns in several places around the map, and respawns infinitely as long as her associated quest isn't finished, making her a good source of Echoes in the early game. Beloveds are fairly slow, not especially dangerous underwater enemies who will always provide 2 supplies, some hunting trophies, and possibly extra food when killed. Apparently they're quite good eating. Two tougher, but even more valuable piñatas are Lifebergs on the surface, and Thalattes below. Both can take a beating, and can deliver a lot of pain, but are hugely profitable once dead; both offer either plentiful supplies * Lifebergs give both supplies and fuel, Thalattes "just" give you a crapton of supplies or a ton of echoes' worth in valuables * Lifebergs tend to drop Outlandish Artefacts in large amounts, Thalatte organs count as their own Live Specimens which you can sell to the Labyrinth of Tigers. The ultimate pinata enemy of the game is the Lorn-Fluke, a Sea Hurtchin that can take quite a beating but drops some of the best loot in the game. A savvy zee-captain can keep their ship at the right distance from a fluke so that it can be brought down quickly while taking Scratch Damage from its ranged attack. The guaranteed reward for doing so is a valuable Colossal Fluke-core (500 echoes if sold directly, 600 if traded for a Judgements' Egg in the Iron Republic). In addition, by successfully passing a moderate Pages check, you earn three Secrets for each fluke — perhaps the easiest and fastest way to farm Secrets in the entire game. They also happen to have a wide spawning area, making farming them an easy and very profitable endeavour for those skilled in zeefighting. The Dawn Fluke, found underwater near the Dawn Machine, can yield an even more profitable piece of loot through a mild Pages challenge — a Searing Enigma, worth a thousand echoes if sold to the Scholar in London. Like all enemies, it respawns. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2e84972a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2e84972a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_2e84972a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3033b958 | type |
Giant Enemy Crab | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3033b958 | comment |
Giant Enemy Crab: An ubiquitous monster of the zee, appearing in no less than four variations (including a smaller, juvenile one) across the map. The king of these, however, is Temtum, a crab the size of a big island housing the town of Hideaway on his back. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3033b958 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3033b958 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3033b958 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_30a71342 | type |
Sentient Stars | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_30a71342 | comment |
Sentient Stars: The powerful Judgements are the stars (and the sun is no exception). The Dawn Machine, being an artificial sun, gained their sentience as well. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_30a71342 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_30a71342 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_30a71342 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31c5e7fb | type |
Starfish Aliens | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31c5e7fb | comment |
Starfish Aliens: The Lorn-Flukes, the Rubbery Men and several other species of the Neath did not originate on Earth, but came there together with the Bazaar from another world elsewhere in space. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31c5e7fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31c5e7fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31c5e7fb | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31f9cec9 | type |
Critical Staffing Shortage | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31f9cec9 | comment |
Critical Staffing Shortage: Can happen to you, if your total number of Crew is less than half your ship's maximum capacity. Below that, there are not enough zailors onboard to fully staff the ship's operations, and the ship will be limited to half-throttle as the remaining zailors have to juggle multiple duty stations. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31f9cec9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31f9cec9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_31f9cec9 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | type |
Mad Artist | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | comment |
Mad Artist: The Set, a group of highly eccentric and vicious artist-pirates. One of their former members, the Merciless Modiste, can be recruited as your ship's first officer, and she is excellent with both clothing and murder. She tells you a few tales of the rest, all of them psychopathic or merely insane. And then there's the Irrepressible, their dreaded flagship zubmarine. Built for form and function, and with a main gun that fires mind-destroying colours, it's feared with good reason. The Rosegate underwater cigar shop is run by an extremely eccentric tobacconist bent on creating an underwater cigar, which seems to require very unsavoury and unethical means and ingredients. Further underlined by the fact that actually going through with assisting him enough to complete his cigar nets you a Supremacy point with the Anarchists, his final destination being the Iron Republic and cryptic warnings about his work risking "setting the zee aflame". | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3511c4d7 | type |
Plunder | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3511c4d7 | comment |
Plunder: Battles with enemy ships generally leaves them in no condition to be captured, but something can usually be salvaged before they sink, especially their cargo crates. This also applies to large zee-beasts, which when killed usually float up for a while, allowing them to be harvested by the hunting ship. If by some miracle you actually manage to kill the crew of a ship without sinking it (doing this on purpose requires a specific weapon, and is nearly impossible on smaller ships), it enables a special option where you can have some of your crew seize it, a Luck challenge that can result in a reward delivered to your Lodgings. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3511c4d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3511c4d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3511c4d7 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: In the Neath, it's easier to count scientists who aren't mad. Even the Player Character with the Natural Philosopher background seems to qualify. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3517000d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3517000d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3517000d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_36ed3e1e | type |
Ascended Meme | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_36ed3e1e | comment |
Ascended Meme: Ratsending. One Fallen London player decided to amuse themselves by using that game's basic gifting system to send the lead dev thousands of rats, fifty at a time. The mythos of transported rats expanded by degrees and infected the spinoff game; a Pneumatic Ratsender is now available as a ship component. One of the port events on Nuncio features a direct reference to this, with your captain finding a sack of dead rats washed up ashore among all the other lost mail, marked with the words "ACCEPTING NO FURTHER" and an address of "someone of importance". Nuncio itself is this. Those doing the self-destructive quest of seeking Mr. Eaten's Name would eventually end up marooned on an island without any means of getting supplies. Players got around this by using the gift system in intriquite ways that players began joking of the international postage system of mailmen inexplicably ferrying supplies for insane island hermits. The joke served as the basis for the strange compulsion mailmen have in Sunless Sea. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_36ed3e1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_36ed3e1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_36ed3e1e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_37fcf16 | type |
Death Is Cheap | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_37fcf16 | comment |
The Tomb-Colonists, normal Neath-dwellers who outlived their bodies' capacity to regenerate and sustain themselves but are unable to die because Death is Cheap in the Neath. They're technically still alive and human in every sense that counts, but they're treated like undead beings, don't seem to require sustenance or even air, tend to wrap themselves in bandages to hide their withering, crumbling forms and resemble mummies or zombies, and normally retire to the Tomb-Colonies, no longer welcome in polite society. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_37fcf16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_37fcf16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_37fcf16 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_384e9bac | type |
Fantastical Social Services | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_384e9bac | comment |
Fantastical Social Services: Nuncio has a mystical attraction for lost letters and packages, and obsessive postal workers to finally deliver them to their destinations. It's nominally a British colony, but the Dead Letter Office believes it is older than London, and based on the number of packages they have to deal with it will likely outlast it as well. Beneath the Office's back rooms is an unlit hollow shaft that makes the entire island resonate like an infrasonic drum with every wave on the beach; at the bottom is a burning engraving in the Correspondence ordaining that all things arrive at their destined place, that every secret must be preserved until it is revealed, that an unheard message is a tragedy, that a ray of light can traverse any darkness - NO WORD LOST. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_384e9bac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_384e9bac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_384e9bac | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3909db4f | type |
Failed State | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3909db4f | comment |
Failed State: In the alternate timeline of the game, it appears Vienna (and Austro-Hungary as a whole) is slipping into failed state territory. Vienna itself has become a haven for Revolutionaries with a capital R, Bomb-Throwing Anarchists from London who have taken over so completely that most of the graffiti in the city is in English rather than German, and most of the lamps in the city have been smashed by Liberationists. The crown has been unable to keep this unrest down in their very own capital, leading to poverty (complete with one of the city's most famous cafés being burned down by its debt-threatened, anarchist-opposing owner), and technically foreign agents (the Gentleman from the Bureau serves some very high powers indeed) are growing their powerbase because they're the only ones getting things done. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3909db4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3909db4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3909db4f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | type |
Reality Warper | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | comment |
Reality Warper: The Judgements in general, as well as the Dawn Machine. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
A humorous example occurs if you choose to progress your Zubmarine quest by giving the engineers building it an Extraordinary Implication. Whatever you casually tell them causes one to undergo a Heroic BSoD, another to weep boiling tears evaporating from their cheeks and a third to quietly leave and be seen burning his collection of books on engineering in the back lot. It does, however, provide some sort of new principles or ideas that make your Zubmarine feasible. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | type |
Blessed with Suck | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: A minor example: The Fulgent Impeller is ludicrously fast, with standard cruising speed being faster than full power on other engines. While this has innumerable advantages, you'll likely be reaching ports before Something Awaits You can reset, and therefore need to sit at the dock for a while. You will also probably end up crashing into islands constantly due to the ridiculous speed, which even as Scratch Damage can get annoying. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c728b77 | type |
Flare Gun | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c728b77 | comment |
Flare Gun: Flares are used in naval combat — not as weapons, but to light up the area and allow gunners to achieve a firing solution faster (both you and the enemy alike). The item itself also plays a role in a few encounters, such as a light source and to ignite the hydrogen in a zeppelin. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c728b77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c728b77 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3c728b77 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d | type |
Bad Boss | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d | comment |
Bad Boss: You, potentially. Several storylines are most easily advanced by sacrificing your own crew, with zero indication that they've done anything to deserve it. Then again, considering some of those storylines your crew actually expects this, and will be freaked out if you start getting soft. Feeding a zailor to a zee-monster that was trying to lure you lowers Terror precisely because they saw you're serious about discipline (that zailor was a known troublemaker), while pardoning certain slights will raise it because the Capn's going soft. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3e80f488 | type |
Glowing Flora | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3e80f488 | comment |
Glowing Flora: Varchas, the Mirrored City, harbours an intense aversion towards darkness. Amongst the many light sources found in the city are some omnipresent luminescent "fungal flowers". One of the quests has Varchas' main mirror shattered, stripping the town of most of its lights, and the fungi stopped glowing at the same time. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3e80f488 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3e80f488 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_3e80f488 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40b1b989 | type |
Resources Management Gameplay | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40b1b989 | comment |
Resources Management Gameplay: Fuel and supplies are necessary to run the ship and maintain the crew, and their use and conservation must be balanced. The integrity of one's hull must also be carefully monitored, as taking damage at less than 50% hull results in (among other things) the deaths of crew. If your ship has 50% or less than its maximum crew capacity, your cruising speed will be effectively halved, which is quite bad. Worse, if your crew count is 25% or lower, your rate of increasing Terror will double. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40b1b989 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40b1b989 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40b1b989 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40cbee83 | type |
Wretched Hive | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40cbee83 | comment |
Wretched Hive: Several islands qualify. Khan's Shadow, specifically built as a haven for all those who don't fit into the New Khanate society and dominated by anarchists, rogues and pirates. The action to compile a port report there even states "So many malcontents, so little time." Gaider's Mourn, a base of zee-pirates and smugglers of all stripes, open to black market trade. Many port actions there involve getting into random fights with varying success. Isle of Cats, home to the Pirate-King and the biggest farm of red honey, deals in the most forbidden of goods. The Iron Republic takes this to a metaphysical level, warping the laws of nature and reality itself. Even Fallen London itself qualifies to a notable degree, with extremely shady business rife in the city and around it and the remnants of authority largely powerless to stop much of it or directly complicit in it. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40cbee83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40cbee83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_40cbee83 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_420080ed | type |
Alien Sea | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_420080ed | comment |
Alien Sea: The Neath does not follow all of the same physical laws as the Surface, and its zee is coloured between black and green. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_420080ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_420080ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_420080ed | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_429152bd | type |
Submarine Pirates | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_429152bd | comment |
Submarine Pirates: The Pianolist, one of The Set and captain of the Irrepressible. When exploring the Unter-Unterzee, you might also encounter Corsair Undergalleys and the Wreckships of Wrack. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_429152bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_429152bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_429152bd | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_431b76b5 | type |
Smash Mook | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_431b76b5 | comment |
Smash Mook: Most zee-monsters (except for some of the most powerful ones) fight this way. Once you're spotted, they'll continue to charge at you until either they or you are dead, or when they can no longer spot you. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_431b76b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_431b76b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_431b76b5 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_437e70f5 | type |
What a Piece of Junk | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_437e70f5 | comment |
What a Piece of Junk: Don't underestimate Wreckships. They may look like the product of a half-assed salvage effort, but they can do a number on your zubmarine and are Dreadnought-level tough. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_437e70f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_437e70f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_437e70f5 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4510b368 | type |
Ambiguous Gender | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4510b368 | comment |
Should you bring the Alarming Scholar seven Searing Enigmas and turn them in at once with a special option, you will lose her (him?) permanently due to this. Thankfully, the interface clearly warns of this outcome in advance, and it rewards a Dread Surmise as part of certain endgame ambitions. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4510b368 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4510b368 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4510b368 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | type |
Worthy Opponent | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | comment |
Worthy Opponent: The Pirate-Poet is searching for one of these, which you can become. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_47e4f5f5 | type |
Golden Ending | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_47e4f5f5 | comment |
If you don't die at zee, get stranded on the surface or get taken by Mr Sacks, depending on your Ambition, you might end the game either by retiring from zee-faring to a life of luxury, becoming London's most venerated explorer, finding and burying your father's bones, taking over Nidah and gaining immortality, being rewarded with one of the kingdoms of the Presbyterate, founding your own kingdom at Aestival, or sailing beyond the Zee out of the world to the Uttermost East. There are also secret endings with no Ambition objective associated with them: You can accompany the Merchant Venturer and pass through the Avid Horizon to the High Wilderness, steal the Monkey Emperor's Zeppelin, or become the lover of Lady Black. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_47e4f5f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_47e4f5f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_47e4f5f5 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | type |
Infinity -1 Sword | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | comment |
Infinity -1 Sword: The Serpentine is the second-best engine and is relatively easy (though not guaranteed) to obtain, requiring you to complete the Genial Magician's storyline and promote him to the Satisfied Magician without running afoul of the final quest's 30% fail chance. By contrast, the Fulgent Impeller is far better and guaranteed, but requires an extremely drawn-out and somewhat risky quest chain to get. The one advantage the Serpentine has, however, is that the Satisfied Magician can be passed on through Legacy to subsequent captains, allowing you to equip the Serpentine immediately, so long as you can afford it. The Maenad-class Frigate isn't as tough as the Dreadnought and doesn't have as large a hold, but requires a smaller crew (using fewer supplies), is slightly lighter/faster, but still being large and powerful enough to complete late-game missions, and is much cheaper compared to the obscene Echoes cost of the Dreadnought. The Steam-Yacht, meanwhile, has better stat bonuses but isn't as tough, only allows a deck gun and can only be obtained through an extremely lengthy quest. The Caminus Yards Heart-Ender and the Cotterell & Hathersage 'Majesty' forward-facing weapons are roughly tied for second most powerful option after the Memento Mori (Heart-Ender dealing slightly less damage to ships but greater damage to monsters and Majesty doing equal damage to both), available to you without any prior requirements and at a fraction of its cost (the Majesty being available for a laughable 400 Echoes). | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_480c69ba | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4aafd3c8 | type |
Fling a Light into the Future | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4aafd3c8 | comment |
Fling a Light into the Future: Each time you die, you establish a Legacy to pass on to your next captain. You can pass on half of the accumulated points of a single stat (two with a Scion) and an associated benefit (half of your wealth on two stats, a piece of equipment, an officer, or your discovered map). You can also write a will to pass on your lodgings and the heirlooms contained within. You could potentially devote one captain's entire life to buffing their successor. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4aafd3c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4aafd3c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4aafd3c8 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4c59921a | type |
Face Stealer | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4c59921a | comment |
Face Stealer: If you let A Raggedy Fellow onto your ship, there's a 1 in 4 chance that he's a Snuffer, a face stealing, candle-eating being who will start killing your crew one by one and start wearing their faces, causing a plot to attempt to find the impostor before it gets out of control. Another sidequest tasks the player with hunting a known Snuffer down. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4c59921a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4c59921a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4c59921a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4fa65449 | type |
Dream Land | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4fa65449 | comment |
Cosmogone: Associated with fungi and their growth, encouraging their growth when it shines on them. It's also heavily associated with Parabola. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4fa65449 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4fa65449 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_4fa65449 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_502c9edd | type |
Mushroom Man | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_502c9edd | comment |
Mushroom Man: The blemmigans, while not humanoid in shape, act somewhat human-like and possess enough intelligence to hold what seems to be philosophical debates in their colonies and even learn (and critique) written poetry. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_502c9edd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_502c9edd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_502c9edd | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: Many instances of all sorts all across the Unterzee, but the Shapelings and Snuffers and the Fathomking stand out in particular, and then there's also the Starved Men of Godfall, formerly living on the Neath-roof. Other memorable examples are the older Tomb-Colonists, the sorrow-spiders, and gall-blighter wasps, the latter of which make nests in your eyes. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_52b9f0cc | type |
Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_52b9f0cc | comment |
Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon: Several larger ships are capable of mounting a "forward" class of weapons. It is typically much more powerful than deck guns, but has a much more limited firing arc. Some ships can mount a fixed aft-facing gun as well to discourage chasers. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_52b9f0cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_52b9f0cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_52b9f0cc | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5378a179 | type |
Macrogame | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5378a179 | comment |
Macrogame: When a game ends (either from death, victory, or retirement), the player can begin a new game with a Legacy based on their chosen relation to the previous captain. Depending on the Legacy chosen, the player gains 50% of the points previously earned for a single stat, as well as a secondary benefit based on that stat (one weapon, one officer, the revealed map, or half their Echoes on two different stats). If the player unlocks the Scion, two Legacies can be chosen. There are also a number of Legacy Qualities that provide permanent boosts to the player's starting stats when unlocked through certain in-game actions. Finally, captains who have purchased a home can write a will, allowing their house and some of their wealth (in the form of Heirlooms) to be passed on. The will has to be refreshed for every captain, however. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5378a179 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5378a179 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5378a179 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_54ec2f0c | type |
Not Completely Useless | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_54ec2f0c | comment |
Not Completely Useless: The Lampad-class Cutter is fast and doesn't require much crew, but its fragility, very small hold and the fact you still have to spend Echoes to buy it make it most of the time not worth the investment. Unless if you're trying to get the Touch of the South, which reduces your Hull and Crew to 1, then the Cutter is the best ship: its fragility doesn't matter since you only have 1 Hull point anyway, and it only has a crew capacity of 5, which can be reduced to 2 with the WE ARE CLAY auxiliary item, meaning that you can still sail at full speed with 1 Crew and don't need to limp to London at half speed. Alternately, the Awesome, but Impractical Cladery Heart will let you completely skip the Veils check and the hull damage. This still doesn't make the Cladery Heart any better of a ship, unfortunately. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_54ec2f0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_54ec2f0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_54ec2f0c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5530e11b | type |
Founder of the Kingdom | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5530e11b | comment |
Founder of the Kingdom: If you manage to settle Aestival, you can strike an alliance with a major power for them to legally recognise it as a kingdom, with you as its founder. Or you can strike out on your own, essentially setting up your own nation from scratch and telling anyone who disagrees to piss off. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5530e11b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5530e11b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5530e11b | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | type |
Bragging Rights Reward | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | comment |
Bragging Rights Reward: You have to complete a very long quest line to obtain the Leucothea-class Steam-Yacht. When it is completed, chances are you have been around the map enough and earned enough money to buy the superior Caligo-class Merchant Cruiser or the Maenad-class Frigate. If you know what to do for the quest and bee-line for it, you may get it before those two things happen, but you'll probably upgrade to either of those two ships. The Zong of the Zee is this if your end goal is to become a great explorer. It grants +10 to all five stats, something no other piece of equipment comes close to doing, but in that ambition the entire point of the campaign was to obtain it in the first place, meaning you've already won the second you get it. Anything you do with it after that is just killing time before you go home and retire (unless you decide to abandon that ambition and go ahead with founding your own colony). For that matter, if you can manage to wrangle together the absolutely massive item requirements needed to craft it, you don't need it to begin with. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_58efc711 | type |
The Goomba | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_58efc711 | comment |
The Pirate-Poet is a tougher variant on Steam-Pinnace who always grants 1 each of fuel/supplies, between 100-500 Echoes, and a crate drop. She spawns in several places around the map, and respawns infinitely as long as her associated quest isn't finished, making her a good source of Echoes in the early game. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_58efc711 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_58efc711 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_58efc711 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5979acea | type |
Fragile Speedster | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5979acea | comment |
Fragile Speedster: Cutters are the smallest, lightest and least well-armoured ships available - which makes them terribly fast. That being said, the game is deadly and you don't really need to take unnecessary risks to go fast. Unless if you're trying to get the Touch of the South, which reduces your Hull and Crew to 1: the low Hull capacity of the Cutter doesn't matter since you only have 1 Hull point anyway, and it only has a crew capacity of 5, which can be reduced to 2 with the WE ARE CLAY auxiliary item, meaning that you can still sail at full speed with 1 Crew and don't need to limp to London at half speed. There's also the Stymphalos-class Steam Launch, but it is not recommended to use this One-Hit-Point Wonder unless if you want to kill your current captain. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5979acea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5979acea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5979acea | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | type |
Government Conspiracy | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | comment |
Government Conspiracy: The Dawn Machine - both the Deus Est Machina itself and the plans around it were hatched by a faction of the London Admiralty and government, as a way to break the Bazaar's control over London. Suffice to say that it has Gone Horribly Right. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a71be2d | type |
Bad Santa | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a71be2d | comment |
Bad Santa: Mr Sacks, The Crimson Beast of Winter, is not your friend. He does not hand out presents - the people of Fallen London are supposed to give presents to him instead. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a71be2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a71be2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5a71be2d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5b965319 | type |
Language of Magic | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5b965319 | comment |
Language of Magic: The Correspondence, the language of the Bazaar and possibly the Judgements. Overlaps with Words Can Break My Bones and Black Speech, since actually reading and speaking it may set things (such as the reader) aflame, its sigils are capable of killing or brainwashing people, and opponents such as the Lorn-Flukes and Mount Nomad actively use it as a weapon for naval combat. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5b965319 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5b965319 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5b965319 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5c47585e | type |
HPToOne | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5c47585e | comment |
HP to One: If you successfully zail upstream of Adam's Way, your Crew and Hull are both reduced to one. Better find a way back to a shipyard without being hit once. Having the Cladery Heart allows you to avoid the Hull damage, though your Crew will still . Reaching the final chamber of Frostfound demands the inverse - you need to max out your Terror to access it. Fortunately, the actions taken in the chamber usually restore some or all of it, and Frostfound's SAY options can slowly reduce it with time. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5c47585e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5c47585e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5c47585e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c | type |
Save-Game Limits | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c | comment |
Save-Game Limits: There's a cosmetic item (the Invictus Token) if the player chooses to play in Unforgiving mode, which only provides one Autosave. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5d9ce92c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | type |
Brown Note | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | comment |
The Set, a group of highly eccentric and vicious artist-pirates. One of their former members, the Merciless Modiste, can be recruited as your ship's first officer, and she is excellent with both clothing and murder. She tells you a few tales of the rest, all of them psychopathic or merely insane. And then there's the Irrepressible, their dreaded flagship zubmarine. Built for form and function, and with a main gun that fires mind-destroying colours, it's feared with good reason. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5db59a03 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652 | type |
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652 | comment |
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: The game happily informs you on start that you will probably die and those that follow will succeed, and as far as the win conditions go, isn't lying in the slightest. Most of the potential Ambitions require skill checks you'll likely fail the first time around, but you can pass on portions of your accumulated wealth and stats to future captains, giving them a better chance to succeed. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | type |
Sequel Hook | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | comment |
Sequel Hook: "There is a sea more sunless", a phrase you will repeatedly encounter in your travels, particularly in hard-to-reach places. Usually it is presented as a question ("Is there a sea more sunless?", but the Uttermost East Golden Ending firmly presents it as a statement. The sequel, Sunless Skies, is already being made. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6320eced | type |
Gameplay and Story Segregation | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6320eced | comment |
Gameplay and Story Segregation: You can have meet someone, have a child with them, and have the child grow up and run away to zee all within the space of a single year. It makes sense from a gameplay standpoint (allowing your child to replace you when you die) but even accounting for the weirdness of the Neath it's hard to reconcile. You can carry passengers and recruit officers with special abilities and stories to sail with you. They never count toward your crew total, they require no supplies to survive, and they are never harmed by crew death events unless the captain dies first. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6320eced | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6320eced | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6320eced | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | type |
New Game Plus | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | comment |
New Game Plus: If your captain is killed or retires, the successor is given a starting bonus based on the previous captain — half of the accumulated points for one of their skills, plus material based on the chosen Legacy; having a Scion lets you select two Legacies and two stats to retain (plus material). A few unique items gained from completing certain Story Arcs will always be passed down once gained, giving the new captain an immediate +25 stat boost specific to each item and the ability to raise a stat to 65 or 85 (dependent on background). | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6383a034 | type |
The Mutiny | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6383a034 | comment |
The Mutiny: A ship's crew may mutiny against their captain if Terror grows too high. If they can't be talked down or beaten down, it's game over for you. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6383a034 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6383a034 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6383a034 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_63cad64b | type |
Threatening Shark | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_63cad64b | comment |
Threatening Shark: Bound-sharks are enormous and attack any ship that gets too close. Particularly Tormented Bound-sharks epitomise this. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_63cad64b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_63cad64b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_63cad64b | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: One of your father's possible fates in the Bones ambition. With his crew on the brink of starvation, he sacrificed his life and his flesh to the Chapel of Lights' priests to ensure they would survive. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_65d658f | type |
Putting the Band Back Together | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_65d658f | comment |
Putting the Band Back Together: The Immortality ambition largely revolves around reassembling the Seven Against Nidah, the band of adventurers who attempted your quest before and failed. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_65d658f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_65d658f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_65d658f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6602cad | type |
Permanently Missable Content | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6602cad | comment |
Permanently Missable Content: If any Supremacy value except for London's is raised to maximum, the Dark-Spectacled Admiral, Voracious Diplomat, and Admiralty all become unavailable due to the Khanate/Anarchists/New Sequence hunting them down. This effectively locks you out of delivering Port Reports, gaining Strategic Commissions, or gaining Admiralty Favours. Once certain qualities hit a point, a number of islands start running down a clock until they become inaccessible. In particular Mutton Island will become inaccessible after "Time: the Healer" hits 40, preventing you from fulfilling any storylets there; Hunter's Keep will also be rendered a charred shell after Sojourning With the Sisters hits a certain level, locking you out of any further interactions with them and possibly preventing you from getting the Scarred Sister. Giving the Alarming Scholar seven Searing Enigmas at once will cause her (him?) to descend into babbling insanity, preventing you from turning in curiosities for profit. At least you get a Dread Surmise from it. This is a separate option from turning in Searing Enigmas individually, so you won't do so by accident. The Genial Magician has a 30% chance to lose to the Fingerking and become the Urbane Magician during the last mission of his storyline; regardless of whether you keep him around afterward, you won't be able to acquire The Serpentine for that playthrough. (The same applies for the Prudent Magician.) The Brisk Campaigner's Animescence will kill her once it hits a certain point, locking you out of any storylets relating to her. While it's quite clearly telegraphed by the game, the café in Vienna will be burned to the ground when its owner finally breaks under the twin pressures of revolutionary activity and looming bankruptcy. This closes off the Neath-to-Surface Darkdrop Coffee Bean trading loop for the rest of the playthrough. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6602cad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6602cad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6602cad | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_66a52e25 | type |
Bullfight Boss | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_66a52e25 | comment |
Bullfight Boss: A fair portion of the monsters have no ranged attacks, only a ramming attack. Unfortunately, all of them are usually fast enough that dodging them is near-impossible without an extremely fast ship. The exception are the Lifebergs, which are so slow that almost any ship can outrun them as long as you're careful and anticipate their attacks. While every boss is capable of heavy ranged attacks, the Tree of Ages' particularly slow turning speed makes avoiding its devastating long-rage attacks by getting close, goading it to charge and continuously dodging it while chipping away at it with your deck gun the optimal strategy for defeating it. This also makes it the easiest boss to defeat, possible even with starting equipment. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_66a52e25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_66a52e25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_66a52e25 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6838a3ec | type |
EliteMook | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6838a3ec | comment |
The Republican Dreadnoughts, which are amongst the toughest ships patrolling the Unterzee. They possess deck, fore, and aft cannons (meaning they can shoot you from behind) as well as 400 HP to soak up punishment, making them a huge threat to the players. Even worse are the Elite Mook Glorious Dreadnoughts, their glowing equivalent. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6838a3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6838a3ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6838a3ec | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_68f95429 | type |
That's No Moon | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_68f95429 | comment |
That's No Moon: Lifebergs look like bits of island. They are not. What they are is large, malicious, and extremely hazardous to shipping. Mt Nomad, the Lifebergs' much bigger, much more powerful sister, an actively hostile mobile mountain stalking the seas. There's additionally The Eye, a huge eyeball embedded in the zee-floor. Mercifully, it can't chase or attack you, not that simply witnessing it doesn't pose its own risks. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_68f95429 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_68f95429 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_68f95429 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69771700 | type |
Ocean of Adventure | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69771700 | comment |
In Fallen London, you can receive purely optional missions from the Blind Bruiser, a representative of a mysterious crime lord known only as the Cheery Man. Most of these missions involve you receiving generous gifts of money and fuel in exchange for trafficking extremely dangerous and/or illegal goods across the Unterzee, with dire consequences in store should you fail. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69771700 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69771700 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69771700 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69a54df1 | type |
Chest Burster | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69a54df1 | comment |
Chest Burster: Elderly Tomb-Colonists sometimes appear to start incubating a giant moth inside of their chests, which uses them as a cocoon and causes them to die when it emerges. It is not fully clear whether the moths simply infest their bodies with their young or whether it is, in fact, a way for the Tomb-Colonist to be "reborn" and extend their life further. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69a54df1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69a54df1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_69a54df1 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6ab0c0f1 | type |
Overdrive | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6ab0c0f1 | comment |
Overdrive: Players can dump extra coke into their boilers to drastically increase speed for a brief time. However this is something best done only rarely, since it is very wasteful of fuel, and doing it too frequently risks the engine running too hot and causing all sorts of bad things. There is a small chance for the overheated engine to push this further and actually gain a massive increase in both power and fuel economy for a short while. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6ab0c0f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6ab0c0f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6ab0c0f1 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Avernus shares its name with a Roman term used to refer to the underworld's entrance, befitting its nature as the main Surface-side entrance to the Neath. This additionally takes on a double meaning when the effect of sunlight is considered - the real-life crater gave off toxic fumes that killed birds which came nearby, similar to how zailors and even the Captain will die if you stay on the Surface too long. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6d57a234 | type |
Lemony Narrator | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6d57a234 | comment |
Lemony Narrator: The narration can become extremely dry, snarky, or understated depending on the circumstances. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6d57a234 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6d57a234 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6d57a234 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | type |
Underground Monkey | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | comment |
Underground Monkey: Angler Crabs come in three variants: the red Western, the blue Eastern and the orange Elder. Bound-Sharks and Lorn-Flukes appear in two versions each that look identical but have different attributes. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7a3cd | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | type |
Cosmetic Award | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | comment |
Cosmetic Award: Beating the game with the Invictus Token does nothing other than prove you never used a manual save slot. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6f9da277 | type |
A Foggy Day in London Town | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6f9da277 | comment |
A Foggy Day in London Town: Even in the Neath, London and its surrounds still have their fogs. Their practical effect, if zailed through, is to impede aiming, and to thoroughly spook your crew. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6f9da277 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6f9da277 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_6f9da277 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_701666a3 | type |
You Nuke 'Em | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_701666a3 | comment |
You Nuke 'Em: One of the ways to breach Nidah's walls is investing in experimental munitions research, namely thermobaric weapons. While not quite nukes, even in Real Life thermobaric weapons are extremely devastating.. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_701666a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_701666a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_701666a3 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7040b6bc | type |
Understatement | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7040b6bc | comment |
Understatement: When contemplating betraying a Dapper Chap to the Hands-On Diplomat, who is here to execute him, the Lemony Narrator has this to say: | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7040b6bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7040b6bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7040b6bc | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70518904 | type |
Human Cannonball | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70518904 | comment |
Human Cannonball: The Icarus in Black has one purpose: To shoot suicidal human Monster-Hunters at giant zee beasts. The monster hunter does not survive. Usually, neither does the beast. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70518904 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70518904 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70518904 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70bdac19 | type |
Honest John's Dealership | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70bdac19 | comment |
Honest John's Dealership: Leadbeater & Stainrod are the Neath's largest, cheapest, least reliable provider of ships, ship components and ship repairs. It's entirely possible that they actually want you to drown. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70bdac19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70bdac19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70bdac19 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | type |
The Undead | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | comment |
The Undead: Coming in two main, somewhat subdued flavours: The Tomb-Colonists, normal Neath-dwellers who outlived their bodies' capacity to regenerate and sustain themselves but are unable to die because Death is Cheap in the Neath. They're technically still alive and human in every sense that counts, but they're treated like undead beings, don't seem to require sustenance or even air, tend to wrap themselves in bandages to hide their withering, crumbling forms and resemble mummies or zombies, and normally retire to the Tomb-Colonies, no longer welcome in polite society. The Drownies, humans who drowned and were transformed into siren-like creatures with some help from the Lorn-Flukes. They are generally neutral to other dwellers of the Neath and able to go onshore, but are capable of entrancing others with their songs to make them jump into the zee and drown and generally tend to scheme to turn more humans into Drownies. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_70c06a09 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_71cc4b5a | type |
Descent into Addiction | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_71cc4b5a | comment |
Sunlight serves as one for Neath-dwellers. It generates strong feelings of pleasure and relaxation when they're exposed to it, either directly or through a Filled Mirrorcatch Box. Unfortunately for the consumer, it's extremely dangerous to them due to the way it interacts with Neath life; someone exposed too frequently to sunlight will rapidly become addicted and seek it out wherever possible, burning them until they either die of their mounting injuries or just drop dead on the spot from mounting sunlight exposure. As a result it's strictly prohibited by London, and the Revenue Men are constantly on the lookout for anyone trying to smuggle it into London. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_71cc4b5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_71cc4b5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_71cc4b5a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d | type |
Door to Before | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d | comment |
Door to Before: The bottom of the Shattered Citadel in Godfall drops down to the zee, allowing you to safely exit the place without having to spend Foxfire Candles to retrace your steps. Successfully reaching a treasure payout encounter in the Wisp-Ways on the Mangrove College also safely returns the player to the start without having to take any penalties navigating their way back. Finding the Chamber of the Seven in Scrimshander's Ivory Archives allows you to instantly return to the main hall from it. And no matter what you find in the Writhing Gullet in Nook, you will always return to the Bilious Cleft instantly without using up Tolerance for Nookwater nor the Phosphorescent Nodules needed to navigate it. Note that in all these cases, turning back at any point before reaching the end will absolutely require Candles or equivalent for every step backward — meaning that if you find out halfway through that you can't make the skill checks to continue, you'd better hope you brought twice as many candles as you thought you'd need... | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | type |
What the Hell, Player? | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | comment |
What the Hell, Player?: The game chastises you if you attempt to toss human passengers overboard like cargo. "Captain! What are you thinking?!" | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_72dd7026 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_745a226c | type |
Easy Logistics | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_745a226c | comment |
Easy Logistics: Mostly averted, providing much of the game's challenge. Fuel and supplies deplete at a constant rate while under way and running out of either can be a death sentence for you (especially if you run out of fuel; you will then only drift until you run out of food as well). Played straight in that your Crew doesn't need to be paid after initial hiring, and your officers can not only outnumber your crew but don't count against your food use. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_745a226c | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_745a226c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_745a226c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Lose your mind." and "Eat your crew." are exactly the same words you see when you reached Kingeater's Castle and are exactly what you do according to the logbook. Fortunately, it is not mandatory to do so. "All shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." This specific phrase, in many various forms and variations, carries over from Fallen London and crops up in many different events. "Is there a sea more sunless?" Doubles as a Sequel Hook. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7464705c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_753a61d4 | type |
Time-Travel Tense Trouble | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_753a61d4 | comment |
Irem is a place that does and does not exist in the present, leading to massive amounts of Time-Travel Tense Trouble. There's a reason none have ever spoken truthfully of this place. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_753a61d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_753a61d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_753a61d4 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7764f879 | type |
Level Drain | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7764f879 | comment |
Completing certain encounters and choosing certain options upon defeating monsters is another way to raise your captain's skills... or lower them. Exceptional, one-time storybook events can raise or lower your statistics by double digits, defeating certain bosses can award you up to five points (usually Iron), and looting some monsters increases your skill by one. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7764f879 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7764f879 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7764f879 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_78efbeda | type |
Gaslamp Fantasy | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_78efbeda | comment |
Gaslamp Fantasy: Though Genre-Busting extends to the style of the setting as well, when considered overall it falls into the gaslamp spectrum. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_78efbeda | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_78efbeda | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_78efbeda | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7a9bc66 | type |
Fictional Colour | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7a9bc66 | comment |
Fictional Colour: Seven of them comprise the Neath's rainbow-equivalent, all of which have their own unusual effects. Finding examples of them all is the aim of a lengthy, but very rewarding quest in Venderbight. Irrigo: The most easily found of the Neathbow colours, and the most overtly dangerous. Irrigo steals away memories, causing severe memory loss and forgetfulness; exposure (for instance, to an Eyeless Skull) risks damaging your stats. It's also associated heavily with Flukes, who store the memories they take in irrigo-saturated cores. Violant: Irrigo's antithesis, the colour of troublesome connections. Anything written in violant tends to be extremely hard to forget. Cosmogone: Associated with fungi and their growth, encouraging their growth when it shines on them. It's also heavily associated with Parabola. Viric: The colour of shallow sleep, associated with Fingerkings - anything possessed by one gains Glowing Eyes of Doom in viric, as will a box filled with angry dream-snakes. Peligin: Darker than black, this is the colour of zee-waters, the flesh of its beasts, and death. Eating zee-beast flesh tends to turn the consumer's eyes peligin, as demonstrated by Doomed Monster Hunters, and Mariam's skin was turned this colour by the Fathomking as part of an "arrangement" between them. Apocyan: The colour of memories and bright coral. It helps retain and store memories, which is part of why blue scintillack is so valuable. It's also heavily associated with the Principles of Coral and its quest to become a mindless lump of coral after so long. Gant: Not so much a colour as it is the lack thereof. Described as "what remains when all colours are eaten," it tends to be found "where shadows are myriad" such as the Avid Horizon's gate, the Eater of Names' figurehead, and the Zee-beast graveyard of the Gant Pole. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7a9bc66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7a9bc66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7a9bc66 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | type |
Point of No Return | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | comment |
Point of No Return: Averted most of the time; right up until you reach the win condition of an ambition, you can always swap to one of the hidden ambitions instead of completing the one you started with. The exception is the Empire of Hands storyline; the penultimate action requires you to blow up London, permanently locking you out of accessing the main port (it's a Non-Standard Game Over), but not actually ending the game until you return to the Empire of Hands and complete the story. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: Finding one of these is the whole point of the Fading Haruspex's quest in the Gant Pole: she was exiled from Whither, where answering questions with anything other than a question is forbidden, because she once gave an answer to stop a child from crying, so she dedicated her life to finding "the fabled Question which can only be answered with the truth". If you help her find it, it turns out to be "What is more beautiful than home?". | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ba4adea | type |
Black Market Produce | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ba4adea | comment |
For Londoners, foodstuffs produced from the surface such as rye bread, cheese, and fresh fruits and vegetables are considered to be absolute luxuries. If you resupply while in the surface port of Naples, your crew will all look hungrily at the surface food that you purchased. Ironically, it's also the cheapest form of food, as farming is a lot easier on the surface, though getting up there is another matter. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ba4adea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ba4adea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ba4adea | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686 | type |
Final Death Mode | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686 | comment |
Final Death Mode: Unforgiving Mode only allows a single save, which is automatically overwritten upon death. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | type |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | comment |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Oversized crabs, fish, jellyfish, eels and such make up much of the zee's monster population, inevitably leading to this trope frequently being enacted on the player. One of the methods of resolving the siege of Nidah in the Immortality ambition's ending is to employ Temtum, a giant crab to end all giant crabs, as a living siege engine. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7ccd3698 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d4a47d1 | type |
Let Us Never Speak of This Again | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d4a47d1 | comment |
Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Your captain's encounter with the Monkey Foundling is detailed in their journal using the following three words: "THIS. NEVER. HAPPENED." | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d4a47d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d4a47d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d4a47d1 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d561d58 | type |
Too Awesome to Use | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d561d58 | comment |
Too Awesome to Use: Sure, the Icarus in Black is such a powerful device it can two-shot Mount Nomad, but those monster-hunters it fires are expensive as hell, and finding places where to hire them in the first place is quite rare too. So aside from Mount Nomad and possibly an emergency, it's wasted on nearly everything else it could easily kill. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d561d58 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d561d58 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7d561d58 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | type |
Fetch Quest | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | comment |
Fetch Quest: Admiralty Commissions essentially boil down to "Go to [location], get Strategic Information from a contact, return to London, rinse and repeat at a new location." The Strategic Information and Admiralty's Favour from these missions are required to advance several storylines, such as Your Father's Bones (as a Soldier) and the London/Dawn Machine Supremacy conflict. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7e02bded | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f152e56 | type |
Our Mermaids Are Different | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f152e56 | comment |
The Drownies, humans who drowned and were transformed into siren-like creatures with some help from the Lorn-Flukes. They are generally neutral to other dwellers of the Neath and able to go onshore, but are capable of entrancing others with their songs to make them jump into the zee and drown and generally tend to scheme to turn more humans into Drownies. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f152e56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f152e56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f152e56 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f38c0cd | type |
An Offer You Can't Refuse | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f38c0cd | comment |
An Offer You Can't Refuse: The Brimstone Convention is fond of offering people deals that are simply too tempting to refuse, even if it means sacrificing parts of yourself. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f38c0cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f38c0cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_7f38c0cd | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8077793f | type |
Open Secret | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8077793f | comment |
Open Secret: Zubmarine travel is illegal, not that it matters because there is nothing of interest down there anyway. Once you help the Fierce Philanthropist open her zubmarine workshop, it starts a gold rush of sorts and the Admiralty seems to stop caring in any practical manner. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8077793f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8077793f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8077793f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_80874b5d | type |
Mechanical Abomination | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_80874b5d | comment |
Try to go West through Barnsmore's Gap, and the Dawn Machine will Mind Rape you and your crew, forcing you to return to the Grand Geode - now with the Western Stigma, zero hunger, and a massive Terror spike. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_80874b5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_80874b5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_80874b5d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_81c8dd41 | type |
Deus Est Machina | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_81c8dd41 | comment |
Deus Est Machina: The Dawn Machine is, for all intents and purposes, a fully-functioning artificial god. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_81c8dd41 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_81c8dd41 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_81c8dd41 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_82e8cfeb | type |
The Power of the Sun | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_82e8cfeb | comment |
The Power of the Sun: Sunlight is a potent force to the denizens of the Neath, able to kill or grievously harm them should they be exposed to it for any significant time. This is because sunlight, as well as the light of any other star, is the means by which the will of the stars, the Physical Gods of the 'verse, is enforced. In this sense, the Power of the Sun is the main underpinning of the 'verse's reality. In small amounts, it also acts as a Fantastic Drug, and can be captured and sold with Mirrorcatch Boxes if you're willing to run the risk of becoming addicted to it yourself. The Dawn Machine brings its own twist to the trope, its light primarily making creatures and vessels that come in contact with it Brainwashed and Crazy, but also more powerful than they were before. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_82e8cfeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_82e8cfeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_82e8cfeb | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8390eb68 | type |
With Catlike Tread | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8390eb68 | comment |
The Eschatologue-class Dreadnought, as the description reads. Tied for the heaviest and slowest ship in the game, and absolutely destroys your Veils score, since trying to be sneaky with a ship that size is doing it wrong. In return, it boosts your Iron score (damage) tremendously, has all three gun mounts available, the second-best hold space, and the toughest hull of any ship. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8390eb68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8390eb68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8390eb68 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_850cbe5c | type |
World of Chaos | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_850cbe5c | comment |
World of Chaos: The Iron Republic, where men rebel against the very laws of physics. The Neath itself to a considerably lesser degree, being packed with many locations and objects defying reality, logic and understanding that undergo Alteration whenever your captain dies or ends the game through other means. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_850cbe5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_850cbe5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_850cbe5c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_857d1626 | type |
Power Glows | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_857d1626 | comment |
Power Glows: The ships and beasts touched by the Dawn Machine all emit a yellow-orange, incandescent glow, and are some of the most powerful enemies you can find at zee. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_857d1626 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_857d1626 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_857d1626 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_868e6134 | type |
Songs in the Key of Panic | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_868e6134 | comment |
Songs in the Key of Panic: When you reach 90 points of Terror, an extremely tense song replaces whatever was playing at the moment, and will not stop until you go below 90 once more. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_868e6134 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_868e6134 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_868e6134 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b | type |
Random Number God | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b | comment |
Pirate Frigates, and their zubmarine counterparts, Corsair Undergalleys, generally net you 1-2 units each of supply and fuel, plus a random loot item like those you get from smaller and larger vessels, and sinking them takes little effort once you can afford a decent weapon + Iron skill. If the Random Number God is feeling unkind, though, all you'll get is a loot item worth a few dozen Echoes. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0 | type |
Old Save Bonus | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0 | comment |
Old Save Bonus: You can connect the game to your Story Nexus account, and doing certain new storylets in Fallen London with a linked account can give captains in Sunless Sea starting advantages. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: The player, horrifically so, depending on their choices. You can potentially send unsuspecting ships to their doom to enrich pirate-salvagers, engage in human trafficking, sell trusting tourists as food to sorrow-spiders and destroy peaceful civilian ships. And then there's the poor Sigil-Eaten Navigator, or just about anything involving willing cannibalism. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_898ff050 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_898ff050 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_898ff050 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_89b8822f | type |
Go Mad from the Revelation | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_89b8822f | comment |
Go Mad from the Revelation: Should you bring the Alarming Scholar seven Searing Enigmas and turn them in at once with a special option, you will lose her (him?) permanently due to this. Thankfully, the interface clearly warns of this outcome in advance, and it rewards a Dread Surmise as part of certain endgame ambitions. A humorous example occurs if you choose to progress your Zubmarine quest by giving the engineers building it an Extraordinary Implication. Whatever you casually tell them causes one to undergo a Heroic BSoD, another to weep boiling tears evaporating from their cheeks and a third to quietly leave and be seen burning his collection of books on engineering in the back lot. It does, however, provide some sort of new principles or ideas that make your Zubmarine feasible. This is the reason why many events increase your Terror score, since many of them involve uncovering dread secrets and Things Man Was Not Meant to Know. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_89b8822f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_89b8822f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_89b8822f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8af721f7 | type |
Joke Item | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8af721f7 | comment |
Joke Item: The Stymphalos-class Steam Launch, a One-Hit-Point Wonder of a ship with a tiny hold, no crew quarters, and a massive stat penalty. Normally, you'll only ever get one if you somehow survive losing your existing ship, but you can buy one in London if you really want to. Lampshaded in the game: | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8af721f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8af721f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8af721f7 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8b387569 | type |
The Six Stats | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8b387569 | comment |
The Six Stats: there are five (Iron is Strength, Mirrors is Wisdom, Pages is Intelligence, Hearts is Charisma, and Veils is Dexterity), with "hull", "crew" and "wounds" functioning as a variety of HP meters. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8b387569 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8b387569 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8b387569 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | type |
Proud Warrior Race Guy | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | comment |
Proud Warrior Race Guy: Notably averted by the Khanate of the Salt Steppe. Despite being the subterranean remnant of the Mongol Yuan dynasty, they've purged their warrior class, reasoning that their new zeefaring lifestyle doesn't have much use for the steppe warrior mindset. Played straight by the piratical inhabitants of Khan's Shadow, made up of said purged warrior class and anybody else who likes fighting and hates authority. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8d042d3e | type |
Abstract Eater | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8d042d3e | comment |
Red Honey, a proscribed substance described as "too dangerous to be even properly illegal."note Because making it illegal would require the government acknowledging that it exists at all. And if they did that they would have to dedicate all of their resources to destroying it instead of protecting London. It is produced by lamplighter bees who feed on the nectar of a particular flower that drives them to madness. It causes them to enter the minds of humans and eat memories, distilling them into the red-staining honey they produce. Every time the honey is tasted, the person it originated from suffers. Needless to say, the Ministry of Public Decency will wish to have some very sharp words with anyone attempting to smuggling it...which makes smuggling it potentially very profitable. The comparatively harmless and humane version, Prisoner's Honey, has the power to physically transport the imbiber into their own dreamworld. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8d042d3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8d042d3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8d042d3e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8dc2b0f2 | type |
Hard Mode Perks | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8dc2b0f2 | comment |
Hard Mode Perks: The Unter-Unterzee is dangerous even by Neath-standards, with new enemies that hit like a ton of bricks, constant terror rise, the need to manage oxygen or die, and its habit of rearranging itself more often than the surface. However, as you are one of but a few zubmarine captains, it also holds lucrative trade routes, bounties of shipwrecks and long-dead beasts, and has places you can go fishing. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8dc2b0f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8dc2b0f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8dc2b0f2 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f0dc93c | type |
Dangerous Forbidden Technique | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f0dc93c | comment |
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Several officers' storylines involve making such discoveries. Sometimes, you'll have the choice to help them pursue it, with all attendant risks, or to take a safer, less rewarding option. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f0dc93c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f0dc93c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f0dc93c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5 | type |
Joke Character | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5 | comment |
Joke Character: While its stats and behavior is no different from any other enemy of its general tier (i.e. plenty enough to destroy the fragile steamer you start with), it's really, really hard to take a giant zeebeast called the Behemoustache seriously. Yes, it's a giant deep-sea fish with a giant mustache. Which you can loot and sell as an Outlandish Artefact, no less. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_906365a2 | type |
Demonic Possession | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_906365a2 | comment |
The Genial Magician has a 30% chance to lose to the Fingerking and become the Urbane Magician during the last mission of his storyline; regardless of whether you keep him around afterward, you won't be able to acquire The Serpentine for that playthrough. (The same applies for the Prudent Magician.) | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_906365a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_906365a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_906365a2 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90984c54 | type |
Glamour Failure | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90984c54 | comment |
Glamour Failure: The Drownie city of Dahut is somehow enchanted to enthrall visitors and possibly residents to see it as a beautiful, idyllic, almost ideal mirror of London. However, it is possible to break through the illusion and see the reality of the city - its stately cathedral is a wrecked clipper ship, its crypts are a prison where people from the surface are held until they agree to be made into Drownies, its gardens are withering seaweed and the water around it is littered with the remains of victims who accidentally left the area of the sea enchanted to be breathable. Curiously enough, not only can you return to the city after seeing through the illusion, but you will be welcomed in it once again. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90984c54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90984c54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90984c54 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: The Delightful Adventuress. It's hard not to find the resolution satisfying, provided you allowed her sidekick to have a say. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90e31482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90e31482 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_90e31482 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9203bf6 | type |
Arc Number | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9203bf6 | comment |
Giving the Alarming Scholar seven Searing Enigmas at once will cause her (him?) to descend into babbling insanity, preventing you from turning in curiosities for profit. At least you get a Dread Surmise from it. This is a separate option from turning in Searing Enigmas individually, so you won't do so by accident. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9203bf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9203bf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9203bf6 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_921f5a6d | type |
Recurring Location | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_921f5a6d | comment |
Recurring Location: Outside of London and the Unterzee (which do not count since they are the main hubs), the Tomb-Colonies, Mutton Island, Hunter's Keep, the Iron Republic, Port Carnelian, Polythreme, the Mirror-Marches, Abbey Rock, Adam's Way and the Chapel of Lights can be visited in both Fallen London and Sunless Sea, and the Avid Horizon appears in all three Failbetter games. There's also New Newgate Prison, which failed to make it to Sunless Sea since it was planned to be part of the game's dirigible expansion which didn't manage to be funded via Kickstarter. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_921f5a6d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_921f5a6d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_921f5a6d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_928ca2cc | type |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_928ca2cc | comment |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: As part of the Immortality ambition, once you reach Nidah, you might choose to betray the rest of the Seven and seize immortality solely for yourself. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_928ca2cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_928ca2cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_928ca2cc | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_92eb3e7c | type |
From a Single Cell | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_92eb3e7c | comment |
From a Single Cell: Downplayed and Invoked during the assault on Nidah. The Prester and company can be killed, but they're so full of vital energies that your soldiers have to stop fighting like soldiers and start butchering them because they just won't die otherwise. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_92eb3e7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_92eb3e7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_92eb3e7c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | type |
Mighty Glacier | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | comment |
Mighty Glacier: The Eschatologue-class Dreadnought, as the description reads. Tied for the heaviest and slowest ship in the game, and absolutely destroys your Veils score, since trying to be sneaky with a ship that size is doing it wrong. In return, it boosts your Iron score (damage) tremendously, has all three gun mounts available, the second-best hold space, and the toughest hull of any ship. A remarkably literal example are the Lifebergs; although not true icebergs, they're still huge, mobile masses of ice and unknowable substances of the Neath that are actively hostile to ships, moving quite slowly but dishing out heavy ramming damage and boasting a remarkably high health point count. Even their ramming attack is slow enough to be dodged as long as you have a bit of distance. Most of the monsters of the Zee, both above and below the surface, generally operate as either this or Lightning Bruiser. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_94d0eb61 | type |
Lighthouse Point | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_94d0eb61 | comment |
Lighthouse Point: Lighthouses (as well as light-ships and light buoys) appear throughout the Zee, and sailing in their lightbeam helps reducing Terror. The most notable one is the Ragged Crow, which is run from the underwater Undercrow and whose lights sadly attract the terrifying Tyrant-Moths... | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_94d0eb61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_94d0eb61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_94d0eb61 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_974b47a7 | type |
Men Are the Expendable Gender | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_974b47a7 | comment |
Men Are the Expendable Gender: Strongly averted. While your generic crew don't have names, most of the gender-specific descriptions refer to them as female and they are quite likely to die at zee. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_974b47a7 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_974b47a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_974b47a7 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9875ac5b | type |
Ocean Punk | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9875ac5b | comment |
Ocean Punk: Very much the setting of the game. The zee makes up most of the map as you sail between islands dealing with various threats such as giant sea creatures, starvation, and madness. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9875ac5b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9875ac5b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9875ac5b | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f | type |
Luck-Based Mission | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f | comment |
Luck-Based Mission: Several challenges are purely luck based, but fortunately they are never mandatory and the player has an idea of their odds when choosing to try them. More generally, surviving the Early Game Hell requires a certain degree of luck in the zee's Alteration, coupled with some existing knowledge of the game. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98c95895 | type |
Time Crash | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98c95895 | comment |
Frostfound is half-real at the best of times, and its corridors make little sense. Highlights of the weirdness include rooms where time itself is scarred and distorted, galleries full of frozen Zee-beasts large as cities, and a seeming portal to the High Wilderness (i.e.: outer space). Everything you do in the Corridors gives you Terror due to how mind-bending this place is; hitting the usually-fatal 100 Terror is the only way to reach its central core. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98c95895 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98c95895 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_98c95895 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9918518b | type |
Press X to Die | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9918518b | comment |
Press X to Die: Choosing "Eat your crew" or "Offer your thoughts at the altar" in Kingeater's Castle are marked with a game note simply reading "Do not do this." Choosing the first option immediately kills all your officers and crew, wounds you, and gives you a massive Terror spike. The latter fills your Terror to maximum, prompting an immediate mutiny that kills your captain if they fail a difficult Hearts or Iron check. If you visit the Cumaean Canal Staging Area with the "Yearning, Burning" menace above 200, there's an option to "Rise and be lost." Unsurprisingly, choosing it instantly kills you due to sunlight being horribly dangerous to Neath-dwellers even without being addicted to it. The same applies if you sail to Aestival. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9918518b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9918518b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9918518b | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0 | type |
Story Branching | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0 | comment |
Story Branching: Everything other than directly controlling your ship is done through a digitised gamebook format. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9aa17eb0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb | type |
Difficult, but Awesome | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb | comment |
Difficult, but Awesome: Obtaining a Zubmarine conversion in the eponymous DLC, while not really standing out among the game's many, many other difficult tasks, requires finding rare components and fairly extensive exploration of the ever-dangerous zee (thankfully, this only has to be done once; subsequent captains get the upgrade for free). The ability to dive under the zee-surface in your ship is awesome by itself, but the depths pose their own range of both difficulties starting with limited air, navigational hazards and a constant slow terror gain and up to the Constant Companion. However, they also provide rewarding discoveries on the zeefloor, access to new settlements and a way to evade surface enemies such as pirate blockades or, vice versa, flee from underwater ones, as well as a way to truly travel the Unterzee in style. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f | type |
Eldritch Location | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: The game is really chock full, in every flavour. The Iron Republic, freed from all laws including the laws of physics and reality. Writing a port report has your captain trying to navigate ever-changing roads while the ink on your paper is constantly shifting. When you go to submit the report, it may be completely blank or explosive. Frostfound is half-real at the best of times, and its corridors make little sense. Highlights of the weirdness include rooms where time itself is scarred and distorted, galleries full of frozen Zee-beasts large as cities, and a seeming portal to the High Wilderness (i.e.: outer space). Everything you do in the Corridors gives you Terror due to how mind-bending this place is; hitting the usually-fatal 100 Terror is the only way to reach its central core. Irem is a place that does and does not exist in the present, leading to massive amounts of Time-Travel Tense Trouble. There's a reason none have ever spoken truthfully of this place. The entirety of the Neath is one unto itself, particularly when considered in light of the setting's lore. Individual locations aside, islands seem to have a strange tendency of drifting around and re-arranging themselves over time. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9bee1a7f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | type |
Interface Spoiler | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | comment |
Interface Spoiler: The trading interface shows the existence of certain items and trade goods before you're likely to find them in play. Notably, the end reward of the Genial Magician's storylet is shown, even before you recruit him. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e10b88d | type |
Defeating the Undefeatable | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e10b88d | comment |
Defeating the Undefeatable: The Presbyterate is likely the most dangerous place in the Neath, and save for its coastal settlements is rightfully considered untouchable by the other major players. Captains seeking immortality will raise an army, march right up to the walled city of Nidah, storm it and hack their way through the defending forces to claim their prize. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e10b88d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e10b88d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e10b88d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e4ed124 | type |
Mundanger | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e4ed124 | comment |
Mundanger: The biggest, most consistent threats are simple - hunger and fear. Nothing will kill you faster than running out of supplies or letting fear destroy your crew's confidence in you. If you go to the surface, you can take a job running grain across the Mediterranean. Sounds simple, but your ship, captain, and crew are accustomed to the calm waters of the Unterzee, and a simple squall nearly sinks you. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e4ed124 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e4ed124 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9e4ed124 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586 | type |
Leitmotif | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: Most of the game's soundtrack, in the form of a song appropriate for each area playing whenever you get close to it. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a1588c2a | type |
Living Ship | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a1588c2a | comment |
Living Ship: The Cladery Heart, a colossal, living heart, clad in iron and set to sea. The Tree of Ages, a huge congress of sorrow-spiders acting as a powerful, respawnable boss. One of the options to deliver the Seven Against Nidah and their forces to their destination is to navigate the river to Nidah using Polythremi living ships. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a1588c2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a1588c2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a1588c2a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a24670a4 | type |
Benevolent Boss | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a24670a4 | comment |
Benevolent Boss: Also you, potentially (see Bad Boss above). Throughout the game, you have the opportunity as captain to invite your various officers to dinner; talk to them about their problems, desires, or dreams; and in a lot of cases help them get something they're looking for. It's also implied (though never stated outright) that the cost of shore leave at various ports is essentially you picking up your crew's bar tabs. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a24670a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a24670a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a24670a4 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a270b9e5 | type |
Anarchy Is Chaos | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a270b9e5 | comment |
Anarchy Is Chaos: The Anarchist faction, though disjointed, is ultimately after this. The player can choose to assist them. This does not turn out well for London. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a270b9e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a270b9e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a270b9e5 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0 | type |
One-Hit Kill | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0 | comment |
Zailing South through Adam's Way, you'll find the Mountain of Light bleeding its horribly corrosive (to metal ships) blood into the river, and you have to make a Veils check. Failing kills you, succeeding costs you all but one crew member (i.e. yourself)note Officers aren't considered 'crew' for this purpose and one Hull point in exchange for a few goodies and the Touch of the South. You return to Apis Meet, now needing to limp home without touching anything lest you die. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a426ae28 | type |
Multiple-Choice Past | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a426ae28 | comment |
Multiple-Choice Past: You decide your captain's background, social title, and ambition at the beginning of each game. These influence a number of things throughout the captain's time - which of your stats is initially higher, your starting officer, victory conditions, and a handful of other story directions. You can, however, opt to defer these decisions until a later point in the game. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a426ae28 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a426ae28 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a426ae28 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a456a8a9 | type |
Randomly Generated Levels | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a456a8a9 | comment |
The Neath itself to a considerably lesser degree, being packed with many locations and objects defying reality, logic and understanding that undergo Alteration whenever your captain dies or ends the game through other means. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a456a8a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a456a8a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a456a8a9 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e | type |
Infinity +1 Sword | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e | comment |
Infinity +1 Sword: The Memento Mori, the Fulgent Impeller and the Zong of the Zee are Infinity+1 Forward Gun, Engine and Auxiliary Equipment, respectively. Obtaining the Memento Mori requires a fairly long quest chain, the Fulgent Impeller requires an extremely long and drawn-out quest chain, while the Zong of the Zee just requires an obscene amount of resources, especially secrets. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a60f7120 | type |
Physical God | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a60f7120 | comment |
Sunlight is a potent force to the denizens of the Neath, able to kill or grievously harm them should they be exposed to it for any significant time. This is because sunlight, as well as the light of any other star, is the means by which the will of the stars, the Physical Gods of the 'verse, is enforced. In this sense, the Power of the Sun is the main underpinning of the 'verse's reality. In small amounts, it also acts as a Fantastic Drug, and can be captured and sold with Mirrorcatch Boxes if you're willing to run the risk of becoming addicted to it yourself. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a60f7120 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a60f7120 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a6e4215d | type |
Mega Maelstrom | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a6e4215d | comment |
Mega Maelstrom: Whirlpools appear as environmental hazards; they're not hard to avoid, but ships that sail into one will have their hull battered until they can overcome the currents and escape. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a6e4215d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a6e4215d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a6e4215d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a7544a0f | type |
Beneath the Earth | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a7544a0f | comment |
Beneath the Earth: The game takes place almost entirely in the Neath, an enormous underground cavern. The only exception is going through a "canal" to the surface, which lets you play out a few stories in Naples and Vienna, but doesn't let you navigate your boat like you do in the Zee. You also can only spend a limited amount of time on the surface before the sunlight kills you and your crew. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a7544a0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a7544a0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_a7544a0f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_abad35b4 | type |
Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: Approaching the Iron Republic, that bastion of absolute, reality-defying lawlessness and general inexplicably strange events, is accompanied by a joyful Irish-esque tune that'd be more fitting for an actually pleasant place. Perhaps this place even overwrote whatever laws of narrative made this inappropriate. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_abad35b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_abad35b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_abad35b4 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9 | type |
Jack of All Stats | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9 | comment |
The two story ships, the Leucothea-class Steam-Yacht and the Cladery Heart, can both only be obtained through lengthy sidequests which must be completed with each new captain (you cannot simply buy them with inherited money like all the other ships). They provide the absolute best passive stat bonuses in the game (the Yacht increases your total stats by 40 and the Heart by 50), but are otherwise Jack of All Stats ships lacking the cargo space of the merchant cruiser and the front-arc weaponry of the corvette and frigate, both of which you can easily earn in the time it takes to unlock either unique ship. The Heart also has a wider hitbox than the other ships and an enormous Crew requirement while also lacking a forward weapon slot, meaning it can't use the Icarus in Black or Memento Mori. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | type |
Apocalyptic Log | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | comment |
Apocalyptic Log: A few random events turn these up. A standout example is an account of the Brimstone Convention's irresistible offers: a young woman made a pact with the Convention that cost her her hair, her hand, and all her memories before the age of 19; while the narrator is horrified, she simply remarks that her eyes will be next due to the "excellent price" the Convention will offer for them. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_afd181c7 | type |
Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_afd181c7 | comment |
Xtreme Kool Letterz: In-Universe, some of the Londoners attempt to imitate the zailors' Phantasy Spelling accent in order to appear cool, frequently overdoing it by replacing all of their "s"es with "z"s. This does not amuse the actual zailors. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_afd181c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_afd181c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_afd181c7 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b02f996a | type |
Town with a Dark Secret | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b02f996a | comment |
Town with a Dark Secret: Mutton Island is home to a charming fishing community, known for its seafood, apple orchards, and festivals. The villagers are also cannibals who worship the Drowned Man, perform ritual human sacrifices, and might commit (heavily implied) mass suicide as part of the Fruits of the Zee festival. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b02f996a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b02f996a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b02f996a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1a2190e | type |
Viewer Gender Confusion | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1a2190e | comment |
Viewer Gender Confusion: In-Universe the player captain addresses the Scholar in Fallen London as a him (she?). However the player isn't sure she (he?) is a he (she?) and keeps flipflopping between pronouns. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1a2190e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1a2190e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1a2190e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1c7f430 | type |
Sea Monster | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1c7f430 | comment |
Lifebergs look like bits of island. They are not. What they are is large, malicious, and extremely hazardous to shipping. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1c7f430 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1c7f430 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1c7f430 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1e81ef2 | type |
Dead-Hand Shot | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1e81ef2 | comment |
Dead-Hand Shot: The portrait for all three "death" events (Lost With All Hands, Shipwrecked!, and The Final Blow) is a hand (presumably the Captain's) underwater, reaching toward the surface as several bubbles rise past. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1e81ef2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1e81ef2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b1e81ef2 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b351b856 | type |
Sanity Meter | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b351b856 | comment |
Sanity Meter: The Terror and Hunger stats track the crew's mood. An unhappy crew is at greater risk of going mad, killing each other, mutinying, leaping overboard, destroying precious resources/parts of the ship, or resorting to cannibalism. Your captain will also suffer fits of paranoia, uncontrollable screaming, irrational rage, hallucinations and so on. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b351b856 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b351b856 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b351b856 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3bdf232 | type |
Alien Geometries | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3bdf232 | comment |
Try to go too far North, and after days of fruitless, freezing travel you will lose half of your crew and arrive back at either Avid Horizon or Frostfound as there is only one way North. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3bdf232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3bdf232 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3bdf232 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3d0270a | type |
Non-Standard Skill Learning | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3d0270a | comment |
Nonstandard Skill Learning: Secrets serve the role of skill points, but they're also a commodity that can be traded, or expended as a part of quests. To actually turn a Secret into a stat increase, one needs to trade it to an Officer who specialises in that stat. The exception is the Pages stat, which increases the rate of Secret accumulation; no Officer increases Pages higher than the beginner range. It can only be raised through certain events. There are five craftable items in your Study at your Townhouse/Mansion that increase an associated stat by seven points in exchange for seven Secrets and seven of a particular item (or just one, for Hearts and Mirrors). This also gives you an auxiliary equipment item that can be equipped to your ship for an additional seven points. If you wish, you can sell the item and then recraft it, which is the only way to boost stats past 150 (200 max), and one of the few reliable ways to boost the Pages stat as long as you can farm Outlandish Artifacts. Completing certain encounters and choosing certain options upon defeating monsters is another way to raise your captain's skills... or lower them. Exceptional, one-time storybook events can raise or lower your statistics by double digits, defeating certain bosses can award you up to five points (usually Iron), and looting some monsters increases your skill by one. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3d0270a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3d0270a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b3d0270a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b4a6ae4c | type |
Everyone Has Standards | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b4a6ae4c | comment |
Everyone Has Standards: The pirates on Hearthstake Island in the Empire of Hands were shipwrecked there long ago and turned to cannibalism. Not to survive, simply because they longed for the taste of meat. Even then, they refuse to eat a guest. Nor will they ask you to take them home; they've all agreed that cannibalism is the Moral Event Horizon. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b4a6ae4c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b4a6ae4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b4a6ae4c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b5914444 | type |
Noodle Implements | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b5914444 | comment |
Noodle Implements: Some of the Merchant Venturer's requests can get... odd. Some of them make sense, but why does he need romantic literature for a trip through the Avid Horizon? The more esoteric lore of the Fallen London 'verse offers an explanation: bribes for the Judgements or their servants. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b5914444 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b5914444 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b5914444 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b66699a2 | type |
Mundane Luxury | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b66699a2 | comment |
Mundane Luxury: For Londoners, foodstuffs produced from the surface such as rye bread, cheese, and fresh fruits and vegetables are considered to be absolute luxuries. If you resupply while in the surface port of Naples, your crew will all look hungrily at the surface food that you purchased. Ironically, it's also the cheapest form of food, as farming is a lot easier on the surface, though getting up there is another matter. Conversely, Vienna pays incredibly well for Neath coffee, more than double the purchase cost. The fuel and food costs to get up there are easily worth it for a few trade runs, up until the shop buying it is burnt down. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b66699a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b66699a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b66699a2 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b76f6cb2 | type |
Little Stowaway | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b76f6cb2 | comment |
Little Stowaway: The Monkey Foundling is a young girl living on an island with semi-intelligent monkeys. Depending how the player reacts to her stealing their clothes, she can later be discovered as a stowaway on your ship, at which point you have the option to let her stay aboard as a mascot. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b76f6cb2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b76f6cb2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b76f6cb2 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b85c06f2 | type |
Glowing Eyes of Doom | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b85c06f2 | comment |
Viric: The colour of shallow sleep, associated with Fingerkings - anything possessed by one gains Glowing Eyes of Doom in viric, as will a box filled with angry dream-snakes. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b85c06f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b85c06f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b85c06f2 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b8ba9b1f | type |
Crossing the Desert | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b8ba9b1f | comment |
Crossing the Desert: If you are an Immortality Seeker that chooses to reach Nidah by land, you must find a way to cross three deserts, each more impossible than the last. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b8ba9b1f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b8ba9b1f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b8ba9b1f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b905c10c | type |
The Alcatraz | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b905c10c | comment |
The Alcatraz: Wisdom, a prison in the midst of a sea of enormous lily pads, guarded by huge, multi-eyed toads called knot-oracles. To get someone out, you'll need to either pass a ridiculously difficult Veils challenge or pay an exorbitant bribe. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b905c10c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b905c10c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b905c10c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba0ff694 | type |
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba0ff694 | comment |
Dying numerous times in a single Legacy will result in increasingly sarcastic comments when the Lineage: Captains Lost quality is called note In particular, being persistent enough to lose 100+ Captains results in the description simply changing to "Seriously?" | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba0ff694 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba0ff694 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba0ff694 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba236071 | type |
It Makes Sense in Context | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba236071 | comment |
Monster-Hunters that have fought and killed every zee-beast there is to kill will often proclaim themselves Doomed, and go out to seek a glorious death by being... fired out of a cannon at zee-beasts. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba236071 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba236071 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba236071 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be | type |
Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp" | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be | comment |
Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp": Your ship's stats are all named for Fallen London's mysterious rulers, the Masters of the Bazaar - Iron for attacks, Mirrors for observation and illumination, Veils for speed and concealment, Hearts for healing and morale, Pages for knowledge and diplomacy. Your Hull score is essentially a hit point meter; in combat it's usually what soaks up attacks, and when it hits 0 your ship sinks. Crew, which functions as currency in some places as well as an overall health meter for land encounters. If your Crew reaches zero, it's game over. However, even with just 1 Crew remaining, you can still talk to all of your officers. That doesn't change the fact that one more death renders your ship a lifeless derelict. Wounds for your captain, and your captain alone. Three will kill you, and unlike Crew your Wound tolerance can never go higher. Thankfully the game will assume your Captain hides behind your expendable grunts in most on-foot engagements. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb01ad0e | type |
Cool Boat | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb01ad0e | comment |
Cool Boat: Several, including the trimarans of the New Khanate; the partly-organic Cladery Heart; the submarine Irrepressible, with its irrigo-cannon and breakfast-pit; and the dreaded Tree of Ages, crewed by giant spiders. Even your own ship might count, if you buy enough upgrades. The Zubmariner expansion adds zubmarines. They can dive, allow one to truthfully state "I own a submarine," and if they're anything like Irrepressible they'll have a dedicated breakfast nook. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb01ad0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb01ad0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb01ad0e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb660963 | type |
Color-Coded Characters | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb660963 | comment |
Color-Coded Characters: It's a good idea to be wary of people and places with unusually excessive shades of red in their description, they tend to be... unaccountably peckish. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb660963 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb660963 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb660963 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb6c96a7 | type |
Culture Police | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb6c96a7 | comment |
Culture Police: London's Ministry of Public Decency are tasked with confiscating and destroying things London considers "too illegal to admit the existence of," such as Red Honey or reports on the existence of Station III. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb6c96a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb6c96a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bb6c96a7 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bbd8d3f4 | type |
Adventurer Archaeologist | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bbd8d3f4 | comment |
The Adventurer Archaeologist who accompanies you is a selfish Glory Seeker suffering from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bbd8d3f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bbd8d3f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bbd8d3f4 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bc2717e9 | type |
Towers of Hanoi | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bc2717e9 | comment |
The Towers of Hanoi lock on one door is immediately remarked upon as an overused and easy to solve Stock Puzzle... were it not for the fact that it uses fifteen discs, requiring 32,767 moves to solve. And if you actually manage to click 32,767 times (either by save-editing or manually, including an option to reset the puzzle when you're about seven thousand clicks in to thwart autoclickers), the mechanism makes a noise, resets...and the door stays closed. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bc2717e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bc2717e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bc2717e9 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bd2812b5 | type |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bd2812b5 | comment |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The Exaltation semi-secret ambition. Whatever, precisely, you end up doing, it's enough to get a brief salutation from all the gods of the Zee. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bd2812b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bd2812b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bd2812b5 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bddb820f | type |
Must Have Caffeine | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bddb820f | comment |
Must Have Caffeine: Darkdrop coffee beans are a trade good in the Neath, and several groups will barter for them. They can be traded for favors in Khan's Glory, sold to the Surface for obscene amounts of money (to a point), and allow access to Irem, just to name a few. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bddb820f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bddb820f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bddb820f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: The nature of the setting as a Gaslamp Fantasy Lovecraft Lite Cosmic Horror Story naturally leads to these being a common occurrence. The most shining examples are the entirety of the fortress of Frostfound and Irem of the Pillared Sea, locations which mess with your captain's head a lot. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_bef696dd | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b | type |
Non-Standard Game Over | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b | comment |
There are secret endings that aren't part of your ambition that you can achieve. Unusually, these give you items that will assist you in your future playthroughs. These are going through the Avid Horizon with the Venturer, stealing the Emperor's Zeppelin and going East, or with Zubmariner installed summoning Lady Black and joining her. There are also some more traditional Nonstandard Game Overs, like choosing to deliver the Monkey Emperor's Wrath (which is part of things you need to do to get the Zeppelin) then returning to London, getting stuck on the Surface due to lack of fuel, or eating your crew at Kingeater Castle. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c03fec8b | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c0d3d3fd | type |
Border Patrol | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c0d3d3fd | comment |
Border Patrol: Going off the any edge of the map will lead to a story event which leaves you, your ship and your crew the worse for wear and returns you to a nearby port. The output of each cardinal direction is different, and each one leaves you with its own mark (all of which are needed to pursue the Golden Ending): Try to go too far North, and after days of fruitless, freezing travel you will lose half of your crew and arrive back at either Avid Horizon or Frostfound as there is only one way North. Zailing South through Adam's Way, you'll find the Mountain of Light bleeding its horribly corrosive (to metal ships) blood into the river, and you have to make a Veils check. Failing kills you, succeeding costs you all but one crew member (i.e. yourself)note Officers aren't considered 'crew' for this purpose and one Hull point in exchange for a few goodies and the Touch of the South. You return to Apis Meet, now needing to limp home without touching anything lest you die. Try to go West through Barnsmore's Gap, and the Dawn Machine will Mind Rape you and your crew, forcing you to return to the Grand Geode - now with the Western Stigma, zero hunger, and a massive Terror spike. Too far to the East, and after some travelling you'll be forced to turn back by an overwhelming force of silence that threatens to crush your vessel. You end up at either Irem, Kingeater's Castle, Hideaway or the Gant Pole. With all the right preparations, you will be able to zail on - triggering the aforementioned final ending. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c0d3d3fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c0d3d3fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c0d3d3fd | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c2e295cd | type |
Curse | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c2e295cd | comment |
Curse: Piss off the wrong person or power, and they might call on one of the Gods of the Zee to lay a curse on you. Stone's is the safest, having no apparent gameplay effect. Storm's will cause the weather to turn foul wherever you go, with more fog banks appearing on the map. Salt's is the worst; it'll either wipe out your Dynasty, or remove your wife and child from the game. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c2e295cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c2e295cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c2e295cd | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c36cba70 | type |
Mooks | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c36cba70 | comment |
Mooks: Pirates and zee-beasts are always referred to by generic descriptions. Ships with names are almost always neutral trading vessels except for powerful 'boss' ships such as the Eater of Names, the Tree of Ages and the Irrepressible. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c36cba70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c36cba70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c36cba70 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c3b760ed | type |
ZigZaggedTrope | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c3b760ed | comment |
Zigzagged Trope: Of course, since the entire premise of the venture was to "democratize death", i.e. give immortality to everyone without restriction — and there is absolutely no indication that that cannot be done or indeed is not what immediately happens — this rings a little hollow. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c3b760ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c3b760ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c3b760ed | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c40fdf43 | type |
Sea Hurtchin | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c40fdf43 | comment |
The ultimate pinata enemy of the game is the Lorn-Fluke, a Sea Hurtchin that can take quite a beating but drops some of the best loot in the game. A savvy zee-captain can keep their ship at the right distance from a fluke so that it can be brought down quickly while taking Scratch Damage from its ranged attack. The guaranteed reward for doing so is a valuable Colossal Fluke-core (500 echoes if sold directly, 600 if traded for a Judgements' Egg in the Iron Republic). In addition, by successfully passing a moderate Pages check, you earn three Secrets for each fluke — perhaps the easiest and fastest way to farm Secrets in the entire game. They also happen to have a wide spawning area, making farming them an easy and very profitable endeavour for those skilled in zeefighting. The Dawn Fluke, found underwater near the Dawn Machine, can yield an even more profitable piece of loot through a mild Pages challenge — a Searing Enigma, worth a thousand echoes if sold to the Scholar in London. Like all enemies, it respawns. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c40fdf43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c40fdf43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c40fdf43 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c5484456 | type |
The Wandering You | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c5484456 | comment |
The Wandering You: Expect to spend a lot of time just zailing around doing nothing else. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c5484456 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c5484456 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c5484456 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c621dd28 | type |
Silent Running Mode | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c621dd28 | comment |
Silent Running Mode: Useful for evading enemy ships and slumbering zee-monsters - unfortunately, it requires cutting the lights, and Darkness Equals Death. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c621dd28 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c621dd28 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c621dd28 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c63193f9 | type |
Luring in Prey | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c63193f9 | comment |
Luring in Prey: One random event while out on the Unterzee has your ship encounter an elegant lady waving and sighing from a rock out at sea. If you head in to investigate — or send in someone who won't be missed, at your choice — it turns out to be the cunningly-shaped tail of a sea serpent trying to bait potential meals. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c63193f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c63193f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c63193f9 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c6a9c7bd | type |
Sea Mine | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c6a9c7bd | comment |
Sea Mine: When underwater, one player can encounter submerged sea mines. Running a Zubmariner into it is a very bad idea. There are also the Unexploded Unclear Bombs, which have a red glowing dot at their centre (just like the one featured on the main menu) and can be disarmed. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c6a9c7bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c6a9c7bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c6a9c7bd | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
There's also a Shout-Out to Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner if you ate your crew at Kingeater's Castle. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c9861848 | type |
Video Game Caring Potential | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c9861848 | comment |
Video Game Caring Potential: You'll have to move Hell and high water to save the life of the Snow-Child, and there's precious little material reward - but in the end, it's still worth it. All of the Mascots, save for the Comatose Ferret, as most of them are leaving much worse places to join your crew and are generally better off for it. The monkey foundling is among humans and no longer at risk of having her soul stolen, the albino tinkerer gets to ply its trade on the seas, and the Blemmigan Gallivanter despite being a fanged mushroom creature is both happy to be away from the Uttershroom for reasons unknown and also enjoys being tickled which is just adorable. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c9861848 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c9861848 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_c9861848 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_caadad0e | type |
Summoning Artifact | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_caadad0e | comment |
Summoning Artifact: An Element of Dawn can be used to summon the Tree of Ages to your present location, if for some reason you aren't willing to wait for it to spawn at Savior's Rocks (it won't always spawn based on things that spawn nearby) and are willing to waste a very valuable item. A Mountain-sherd can do the same with Mt. Nomad, which is an even bigger waste because Mt. Nomad is much more reliable and the item can be converted into a Captivating Treasure. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_caadad0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_caadad0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_caadad0e | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a | type |
Death of a Thousand Cuts | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a | comment |
While every boss is capable of heavy ranged attacks, the Tree of Ages' particularly slow turning speed makes avoiding its devastating long-rage attacks by getting close, goading it to charge and continuously dodging it while chipping away at it with your deck gun the optimal strategy for defeating it. This also makes it the easiest boss to defeat, possible even with starting equipment. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cbfb0dca | type |
An Entrepreneur Is You | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cbfb0dca | comment |
An Entrepreneur Is You: It might not pay so well as exploring distant kingdoms or hunting pirates, but most captains will spend at least some time ferrying goods and passengers between ports. For example, you can deliver mushroom wine to the Empire of Hands, who will exchange it for coffee beans. The beans can then be exchanged for parabola-linen at Irem. Finally, the linen can be sold back at London or Dahut for roughly three times the value of the wine you purchased (Dahut pays slightly better, assuming you have a zumbarine). If you have have the cargo ship, this can come out to 3000+ Echoes per trip. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cbfb0dca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cbfb0dca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cbfb0dca | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cc1c1d17 | type |
Boundareefs | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cc1c1d17 | comment |
Boundareefs: Subverted with the northern edge of the Neath: while there are countless icy rocks standing in the way north in an impossibly straight line, leaving only thin gaps between them, careful navigating can sail boats past them. However, you will soon really regret those rocks didn't stop you from going North. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cc1c1d17 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cc1c1d17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cc1c1d17 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3 | type |
Nothing Is Scarier | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
Nothing Is Scarier: When searching the wreck of the Nocturne, the player hasn't been told what they are searching for, only that it will be obvious once they find it. Given that your employers are the highly intelligent Sorrow-Spiders, there must surely be a reason they need a third party to perform this task for them, and since it's a late-game storyline, one should expect it to be dangerous. The ship, however, seems to be completely deserted. And it is. There is nothing on board to threaten the player character or their crew, and the item you find is an unconvincing Red Herring. At worst your Terror will increase slightly if you fail two mandatory Hearts checks. The spiders are only interested in whether the player character felt they were being watched, to determine if a particular Lorn-Fluke they have ties to is near. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | type |
Temple of Doom | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | comment |
Temple of Doom: The Vault of the First Emperor was built by monkeys who attempted to imitate this trope as seen in human culture, and as such is something of a Deconstructive Parody of this sort of level: The Adventurer Archaeologist who accompanies you is a selfish Glory Seeker suffering from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. The Snake Pit was built with no means of ensuring that the snakes would be fed. The Towers of Hanoi lock on one door is immediately remarked upon as an overused and easy to solve Stock Puzzle... were it not for the fact that it uses fifteen discs, requiring 32,767 moves to solve. And if you actually manage to click 32,767 times (either by save-editing or manually, including an option to reset the puzzle when you're about seven thousand clicks in to thwart autoclickers), the mechanism makes a noise, resets...and the door stays closed. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ce1b6f32 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf48c17 | type |
Nightmare Face | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf48c17 | comment |
Nightmare Face: The Tides of Appetite are full of writhing, gnawing faces; given that Polythreme is a place where everything is alive, it has quite a few as well. The island as a whole looks like a skull, and many of the districts have an uncomfortable resemblance to organs. A Snuffer's "real" face is little more than a bloody, weeping gnarl of skinless flesh. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf48c17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf48c17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf48c17 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf4d770 | type |
Nightmare Fuel | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf4d770 | comment |
Nightmare Fuel - In-Universe: The Unterzee is full of things that can and will traumatise your captain and their crew, from unsettling events to Terror-raising devastating monster attacks. If your Terror score is high enough, your crew starts having recurring nightmares, and should you return to London with your Terror score above 50, so will your captain. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf4d770 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf4d770 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf4d770 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7b362 | type |
Horror Hunger | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7b362 | comment |
Always a risk when lost at zee, with limited supplies and a cook who's going quietly insane. And then there's Unaccountably Peckish... | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7b362 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7b362 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7b362 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7bd78d | type |
Steampunk | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7bd78d | comment |
Steampunk: Curiously zig-zagged and downplayed for the most part. The parent game of Sunless Sea defined itself and the setting it shares as non-steampunk, eschewing outlandish technological inventions and other tropes typical of the genre in favour of magical and mystical features, some of them distantly approaching Science Fantasy territory, and even explicitly referenced the steampunk genre in a work of in-game fiction its players could create. Sunless Sea itself, however, features many things more typical of steampunk, particularly anachronistic and potent technologies like thermobaric weapons, undersea towns created and maintained without relying on magic and normal seagoing ships modified with extendable overhulls that completely transform them into zubmarines. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7bd78d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7bd78d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_cf7bd78d | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | type |
Developer's Foresight | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | comment |
Developer's Foresight: Ordinarily, if your Terror hits 100, your crew will mutiny. However, if you've only got 1 Crew (meaning your captain is alone on the ship), you get a different event where the Drownies come for your captain. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed | type |
Schmuck Bait | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed | comment |
Schmuck Bait: "Do Not Do This". It is always good, honest advice. One of the locations found towards the edge of the map is Kingeater's Castle, a mysterious altar that's creepy even by Sunless Sea standards. Two of the options, as well as having activity descriptions that should give most players a clue, are clearly marked "Do Not Do This" by the game. Despite the fact the game has been completely honest with all advice the entire time, forums still contain confused players utterly bewildered at why their game just ended. The one time it might be a good idea to ignore it is a certain incident within some of the procedurally-generated shipwrecks, inside the captain's cabin, and even that one is profoundly creepy and deals some nasty stat damage to the captain. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d2c0e2ed | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3354565 | type |
Medal of Dishonor | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3354565 | comment |
Medal of Dishonor: There are numerous achievements for dying: Dying 1, 5, and 10 times in a single Legacy. Dying by suffocation (running out of air in a zubmarine). Dying by an underwater creature. Dying by the Constant Companion specifically. Dying numerous times in a single Legacy will result in increasingly sarcastic comments when the Lineage: Captains Lost quality is called note In particular, being persistent enough to lose 100+ Captains results in the description simply changing to "Seriously?" | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3354565 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3354565 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3354565 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: If you release a blemmigan (predatory, carnivorous and self-duplicating fungal beasts that turn into plagues quite fast) in one of the various lightships around the zee, you'll get your propagation point, but no lightship will ever let you dock to them again, and they will tell you this quite bluntly. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3b02ffb | type |
I Know Your True Name | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3b02ffb | comment |
I Know Your True Name: Finding "The Name Which Burns" is the first step to sailing East out of the world. Without the resulting Chain of Deals, the physics-defying silence will threaten to crush you ship and force you to turn around. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3b02ffb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3b02ffb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d3b02ffb | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d5661a8c | type |
The Dreaded Dreadnought | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d5661a8c | comment |
The Dreaded Dreadnought: The Republican Dreadnoughts, which are amongst the toughest ships patrolling the Unterzee. They possess deck, fore, and aft cannons (meaning they can shoot you from behind) as well as 400 HP to soak up punishment, making them a huge threat to the players. Even worse are the Elite Mook Glorious Dreadnoughts, their glowing equivalent. You can also have a Dreadnought yourself in the form of the Eschatologue-class, which has the most HP of all the ships you can have and the largest Iron boost for extra damage, along with being the heaviest ship in the game (matching the enormous but poorly armed merchant vessel). It's impractically big in some regards, dropping your Veils stat significantly, but when you need to kill every damn pirate and monstrosity in the Unterzee, accept no substitutes. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d5661a8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d5661a8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d5661a8c | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3 | type |
Anti-Frustration Features | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3 | comment |
Anti-Frustration Features: You can't traverse the Cumaean Canal without at least 22 fuel, which is the bare minimum required to go from the Cumaean Canal to Naples and back without getting stranded. The game will generally tell you if your choices will have consequences in the notes. If it says, "Do not do this", it's a good idea to listen. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d7f204e9 | type |
RedShirts | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d7f204e9 | comment |
Red Shirts: Your officers are named and exempted from crew count and supply consumption. The remainder of your crew are nameless and can be blown up in combat, eaten by zee-beasts, or even eaten by fellow crew at your decision. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d7f204e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d7f204e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d7f204e9 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d959f4db | type |
Immortality Seeker | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d959f4db | comment |
Immortality Seeker: You might become one if you choose the Immortality ambition. Depending on your choices you can achieve it and "democratise death", attain it for yourself and no other, or turn it down in favour of gaining a kingdom. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d959f4db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d959f4db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d959f4db | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa | type |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: How you "defeat" Mt. Nomad - as the "grand-daughter of the Bazaar" (yes, that one), it's functionally immortal... but isn't immune to serious injury. At zero Health, you inflict such a bad wound that the Genius Loci decides to cut its losses and submerge to safety underneath the zee until the next Alteration. While you can loot it, it's not you harvesting its corpse so much as sending your crew to get as much from the sinking island as they can before it is fully underwater. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_da12bcfb | type |
You Can't Go Home Again | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_da12bcfb | comment |
You Can't Go Home Again: Enforced if you deliver the Monkey Emperor's Wrath, thus committing yourself to stealing a Zeppelin. If you return to London afterwards, you will die. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_da12bcfb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_da12bcfb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_da12bcfb | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_db6230b7 | type |
Lightning Bruiser | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_db6230b7 | comment |
Most of the monsters of the Zee, both above and below the surface, generally operate as either this or Lightning Bruiser. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_db6230b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_db6230b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_db6230b7 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dc121769 | type |
Elephant Graveyard | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dc121769 | comment |
Gant: Not so much a colour as it is the lack thereof. Described as "what remains when all colours are eaten," it tends to be found "where shadows are myriad" such as the Avid Horizon's gate, the Eater of Names' figurehead, and the Zee-beast graveyard of the Gant Pole. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dc121769 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dc121769 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dc121769 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd078783 | type |
Cash Gate | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd078783 | comment |
Cash Gate: The whole point of the Wealth ambition is to amass enough money to buy your own mansion and retire from zeefaring life. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd078783 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd078783 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd078783 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd1d5124 | type |
Survival Sandbox | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd1d5124 | comment |
Survival Sandbox: The game is basically a Wide-Open Sandbox in a procedurally generated world, focused on resources management, and including permadeath. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd1d5124 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd1d5124 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd1d5124 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd8c255 | type |
Hunter of Monsters | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd8c255 | comment |
Hunter of Monsters: The Chelonate is an entire society of these, consisting of a huge number of Zee-beast hunters occupying the shell of an enormous turtle they slew. Doomed Monster-Hunters are those monster-hunters who've killed so many monsters that they've nothing left to do but find a glorious death, which you can provide to them through the Awesome, but Impractical Icarus in Black cannon. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd8c255 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd8c255 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dd8c255 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dfbdfc6f | type |
Underwater City | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dfbdfc6f | comment |
Underwater City: All cities beneath the Unterzee, which can only be visited if you have a zubmarine. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dfbdfc6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dfbdfc6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_dfbdfc6f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e04c0759 | type |
Unstoppable Mailman | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e04c0759 | comment |
Unstoppable Mailman: The residents of Nuncio are bound and determined to sort through all the mail there, no matter how insurmountable the task. This is part of the reason they're all various degrees of burnt out or mentally taxed, as they have to go to incredible lengths or deal with the constant unpleasant sensation of knowing a task is unfilled. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e04c0759 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e04c0759 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e04c0759 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0904aa4 | type |
No Party Like a Donner Party | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0904aa4 | comment |
No Party Like a Donner Party: If you're low on food, your crew may resort to eating each other to survive. Furthermore, there are several places where cannibalism is practiced, where you may be introduced to the practice. If you've partaken before, you can actively choose this resort should supplies run out. Some storylines clearly show this as a Moral Event Horizon. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0904aa4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0904aa4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0904aa4 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0e3579a | type |
Fungus Humongous | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0e3579a | comment |
Fungus Humongous: One of the major life forms of the Neath. The Iron & Misery Company have a station on Demeaux Island dedicated to harvesting them. There's also the Uttershroom, which is the largest Mushroom in an archipelago of them and has a small village on top. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0e3579a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0e3579a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e0e3579a | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e543a655 | type |
Light Is Not Good | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e543a655 | comment |
Light Is Not Good: The Dawn Machine is an artificial sun that gives the only day-bright light in the entire zee - and it is not good or nice to any degree, its objective seeming to be total domination of the Neath. Anything associated with it causes your crew to get extremely nervous and frequently fall into raving about E SUN THE SUN THE SUN TH, and the false dawn it creates is always grounds for an Oh, Crap! reaction; its Glorious fleet is ruthless, piratical and very well-armed in their glittering ships. Real sunlight is actively hazardous to Neath-dwellers due to the rules of the setting's reality. It can kill someone who'd sustained lethal damage in the Neath but did not die because of its Death Is a Slap on the Wrist nature, and to any normal person who spent too much time underground (such as the player character and their crew), sunlight is a withering, burning force that can suddenly kill them, wound them and/or drive them to madness. This makes the zee around Aestival, an island located under a breach in the Neath-roof through which sunlight can shine, one of the most dangerous places in the game and rightly feared by zailors. This is because the Sun, as well as all other stars, are Judgements, the setting's Physical Gods, and the light they emanate is their will and law. The Neath, being hidden from the direct light of the Judgements, is exempt from "a dozen or so" of such laws, including some of the rules of life and death, and creatures that spend too much time outside of those laws become increasingly harmed by the light. As further icing on the cake, the Judgements are not benevolent entities, being ambiguous, indifferent and neutral at best and malicious at other times. In this sense, in the world of Fallen London and Sunless Sea, the stars are Cthulhu. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e543a655 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e543a655 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e543a655 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e563bf09 | type |
Insistent Terminology | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: Any nautical word that starts with an S is written with a Z instead. So it is Zailor (sailor), Zee (sea); people trying to appear more seawise than they actually are will sometimes overdo it with the Z's and stick them in places where they don't belong. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e563bf09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e563bf09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e563bf09 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e794cb54 | type |
Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e794cb54 | comment |
Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Fulgent Impeller is a mass of zee-monster bones with the Unsettling Sage imprisoned in its core. A fairly uncommon random event implies he's still alive, and screaming, in the heart of the engine. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e794cb54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e794cb54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e794cb54 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e866f3b8 | type |
Puppet State | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e866f3b8 | comment |
Puppet State: London can end up as this if Khanate Supremacy is maxed out. The Admiralty is disbanded, the White-and-Golds take over policing duties, and Parliament essentially cedes control to the Taimen. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e866f3b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e866f3b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e866f3b8 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e8b0f099 | type |
Dark Is Evil | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e8b0f099 | comment |
Dark Is Evil: The Neath's darkness, due to the way the 'verse works, is occasionally noted to be actively corrosive to reason and reality, and shining a light upon it restores reality and sanity to the world. The Revolutionaries very much think otherwise, with their ultimate plan being to snuff out all light on the Zee and then the rest of the universe. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e8b0f099 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e8b0f099 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e8b0f099 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e95acf73 | type |
Wooden Ships and Iron Men | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e95acf73 | comment |
Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The ships are iron with hearts of steam, but the vast, dangerous and largely unexplored Unterzee is a setting much more like the Age of sail. Many islands and encounters further prove that while the ships are mostly iron, the men and women sailing them are even tougher. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e95acf73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e95acf73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_e95acf73 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ea39d156 | type |
Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ea39d156 | comment |
Who Wants to Live Forever?: One of the final options in the Immortality ambition explores an unexpected downside to immortality: Everyone else will want it, and if claiming it means butchering you and ruining your entire empire in the process, they will try until they one day succeed. If immortality didn't beget envy, the Seven wouldn't exist, and you wouldn't be there with them, shelling Nidah to the ground. Your captain can realise this and opt to betray the Seven and side with the Presbyterate at the last second to get a long, leisurely but finite life instead. Zigzagged Trope: Of course, since the entire premise of the venture was to "democratize death", i.e. give immortality to everyone without restriction — and there is absolutely no indication that that cannot be done or indeed is not what immediately happens — this rings a little hollow. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ea39d156 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ea39d156 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ea39d156 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_eb2eb10f | type |
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_eb2eb10f | comment |
Istanbul (Not Constantinople): Enforced - as in Fallen London, referring to any of the Stolen Cities or their landmarks by the names they had on the surface is prohibited. (Most prominently, Wolfstack Docks is the former Isle of Dogs, the Thames has become the Stolen River, and now that High Barnet is beneath the Zee it's known as Low Barnet.) Downplayed, though, as the Masters of the Bazaar have little authority outside London and this game is focused on the rest of the Unterzee. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_eb2eb10f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_eb2eb10f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_eb2eb10f | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ec4bc520 | type |
Snake Pit | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ec4bc520 | comment |
The Snake Pit was built with no means of ensuring that the snakes would be fed. | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ec4bc520 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ec4bc520 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_ec4bc520 | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_f0089082 | type |
Early-Bird Cameo | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_f0089082 | comment |
Early-Bird Cameo: Several recruitable officers first appeared as Hallowmas visitors in Fallen London. | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: The pirate captain on Hearthstake island in the Empire of Hands. Every word he says is in caps, the narration even says that he's louder than his blunderbuss. | |
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Nothing Left to Do but Die | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_f2350614 | comment |
Nothing Left to Do but Die: Monster-Hunters that have fought and killed every zee-beast there is to kill will often proclaim themselves Doomed, and go out to seek a glorious death by being... fired out of a cannon at zee-beasts. This is the Principles of Coral's guiding motivation. Countless years of existence have left it utterly exhausted, such that it wants nothing more than to lose its mind and become an essentially inanimate lump of coral. | |
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IncrediblyLamePun | |
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The entirety of the Neath is one unto itself, particularly when considered in light of the setting's lore. Individual locations aside, islands seem to have a strange tendency of drifting around and re-arranging themselves over time. | |
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies | |
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies: You can have some really satiating food at the Chapel of Lights, for free! There is a high chance of getting the Unaccountably Peckish menace from this, however... | |
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It Belongs in a Museum | |
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It Belongs in a Museum: The description for Outlandish Artefacts (moderately valuable treasures, which can be acquired in a variety of ways): | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: While the Neath is unforgiving and very easy to die in or force your captain to hang up their hat early, it is possible to achieve endings that appear truly happy. Writing the Zong of the Zee will prove your captain is the greatest explorer of their generation. There is the ambition to find your father's bones if your chosen path is Natural Philosopher, as well as the Immortality ambition and, in its own way, the Uttermost East. Of course, captains with more mundane tastes can be perfectly happy with a massive mansion and a retirement fund big enough to choke Her Enduring Majesty. | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4 | comment |
Video Game Cruelty Potential: The Comatose Ferret, it's just a sad angry creature that wants nothing more then to be off the ship. Yet here it is so you've already canonically done something mean spirited to an animal with no way of resisting. The most you can do is try to play with it in which case it looks moderately annoyed and ignores you. Or you can eat it, if you get hungry enough, or let the Merciless Modiste turn it into a coat. No one commits mutiny on my vessel. The number of terrible things you can do to your crew and officer corps is actually fairly impressive, ranging from engaging in cannibalism to trading them to red honey suppliers for neat stuff to abandoning them to a slow immolation to permitting at least two officers to be hollowed out by some kind of eldritch force. Some of them are even mechanically encouraged - because having a full crew chews through your supplies faster than a three-quarter crew and doesn't provide much in the way of benefits, there's actually an incentive to get excess crew killed messily so the supplies will last longer (particularly in the case of the Cladery Heart, which automatically fills its full 35-person crew the second you get it). | |
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Weakened by the Light | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_fab3c1e1 | comment |
Weakened by the Light: Neath-dwellers are harmed by The Power of the Sun, which makes any kind of extended trip to the surface risky. However, sunlight is also a potent drug in small amounts, so that same risk also makes it potentially very profitable if you have some Mirrorcatch Boxes. | |
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Phantasy Spelling | |
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Phantasy Spelling: Certain words starting with 's' start with 'z' instead in the Neath: 'Unterzee', 'zailor', 'zubmarine', and so on. There's a reason, which is basically that several plays at Mahogany Hall played off the Dutch accent of one of the greatest explorers of the Zee, and the zailors themselves loved it and stuck with it. Non-zailors are advised to be careful with their 'z's, however, as excess usage annoys them. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_fb3576b2 | comment |
The Dog Bites Back: The only reason the Delightful Adventuress loses her attempt to cheat you and the Mayor of Port Stanton out of your shares of the Legacy of the First Emperor is her casual betrayal of her Dumb Muscle sidekick, the Unfinished Clay Man Barnabas and her poor judgement of just how strong, persistent and durable he is. | |
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment | |
| Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_fcd993bd | comment |
Video Game Cruelty Punishment: A few of the more dickish things you can do - cheating on your partner, turning down a Mute Exile on Codex, and so on - can have comeuppances, such as being dumped or receiving a curse from one of the Gods of the Zee. | |
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Death Seeker | |
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Doomed Monster-Hunters are those monster-hunters who've killed so many monsters that they've nothing left to do but find a glorious death, which you can provide to them through the Awesome, but Impractical Icarus in Black cannon. | |
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