Bear witness (Whalerise)

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From: Whalerise


The sun is rising; and not alone.


Challenge information

Narrow, Chthonosophy 2 (50% base)

  • 0 - high-risk (30%)
  • 1 - tough (40%)
  • 2 - very chancy (50%)
  • 3 - chancy (60%)
  • 4 - modest (70%)
  • 5 - very modest (80%)
  • 6 - low-risk (90%)
  • 7 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Katabasis in fugue

[…]she is gone. There is only the dawn. She has gone wherever whales ought not to go. There is an eery lightness to the world, the sun rising is dimmer than it ought to be. This is apocryphal, you realise, and the whale its anchor. And with that gone...

Description summary:
You watch the whale mount the horizon, rising into the sky as the sun's rays pierce her. As she rises, dripping blood, light, and ambergris into the sea, you lose sight of her and there is only the sun. Then, you realize that the world you are currently in is a story about a whale, and the quality of light has changed...

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

  • Neathroofsmall.png Sing, leviathan. (Sets Firmament to 181 - The whale must choose, for the rain to end)
  • Whale constellationsmall.png See how she rises. (Sets The Leviathan's Call to 1 - The leviathan rose)

Redirects to: The Dying of the Light


Failure

Eurydice returning

Where the sun meets the sea, she makes her last voyage. [...]

And then she rises. Shedding skin, layer by oily layer [...] Soon she is lost in radiance [...]

[...] It is as though something vital is gone from the world. And already the sun is rising; though dimmer somehow...
  • Neathroofsmall.png Sing, leviathan. (Sets Firmament to 181 - The whale must choose, for the rain to end)
  • Whale constellationsmall.png See how she rises. (Sets The Leviathan's Call to 1 - The leviathan rose)

Redirects to: The Dying of the Light