Fisherman, Returning
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Description summary:
The description depends on your
A Fruitless Harvest quality and varied over the years.
| Description | |
|---|---|
| 3 | Something floats offshore, a little black shape emerging from the deep. A fishing boat, bobbing far, far out to zee – far further than is usual for such a tiny vessel. The boat grows larger, approaching the shore at a rapid pace. |
| 4 | […] Drownies emerge from the zeefoam. Six in total, […] bearing the boat upon their backs […] within lies the bloated body of a Mutton Island fisherman. He is unmistakeably dead. […] "We carry a message from our lord below, His Complexity, the Fathomking." |
| 5 | The ghost of deep authority leaves him then, and he slumps over […] His attendant Drownies lower the fishing boat […] and retreat back into the zee. […] a confused hubbub erupts […] The Custodial Chef is purpling, brimming with— Well, brimming over, really. |
| Changes in 2024 onwards | Text | |
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| 3 | Final sentence: | A number of locals are already here, watching, as if they knew to expect it. |
| 4 | Additional paragraph: | "Get on with it, then," says a Nine-Fingered Fisherman. "We know what 'e wants. Same as last year I bet." |
| 5 | Replaced final paragraph: | Then the Custodial Chef claps his hands together. "Well then. You heard the fellows. If this is going to become a tradition, let's make it a good one!" |
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Unlocked with
A Fruitless Harvest 3-5
Storylet appears in
Mutton Island
Options:
Meet the vessel on the beach
- Spoiler Unlocked with
A Fruitless Harvest exactly 3
Success
Adrift
All is not as it should be on Mutton Island. (Raises
A Fruitless Harvest by 1)
Your 'Audiences with the Bride' Quality has gone! (hidden)
Listen to the Drownies' message
- Spoiler Unlocked with
A Fruitless Harvest exactly 4
Success
A demand for proper respect
All is not as it should be on Mutton Island. (Raises
A Fruitless Harvest by 1)
Sneak a closer look at the Peligin-Eyed Lobsterman
- Spoiler Unlocked with
A Fruitless Harvest exactly 5
Success
Neither one thing nor the other
All is not as it should be on Mutton Island. (Raises
A Fruitless Harvest by 1)
Watch the Custodial Chef
- Spoiler Unlocked with
A Fruitless Harvest exactly 5
Success
Secret messages?
All is not as it should be on Mutton Island. (Raises
A Fruitless Harvest by 2)




