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Confess (The Midnight Moon)

Gone, gone

The leader stares at you for a long time, then lets out an angry cry. He hefts his cosh into the nearest berth. "Damn them that did it. That woman – the engineer who got the mills up and running – it'll be her doing. Couldn't leave well enough alone." He scowls. "I told Old Resurrection, it ban't natural, a dead whale producing. And here we are." He shakes his head. "And here we are," he repeats.

He hands you a piece of ambergris, slimy to the touch, produced from an empty looking pouch. "Last I have. Better I never had it."

As you gather your crew and make ready to breach the leviathan, you see a section of the walkways high above go dark, candle by candle, all around where the old ambergris mills stand silent.

An Invitation to Drink off the End of the World At last, you know how to open the whale. Ascended Ambergris You now have 5 x Ascended Ambergris.