Meet with a bright and fading mind

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A small cave beckons from just beyond the tideline, inset in a stretch of rock where there was no cave before. Silver light flickers from within.

Success

Resignation

[…]O distant flame, o pinprick night—

—a quiet in this endless fractured waking—

—was it too much to ask to be your anchor?—

—for every weightless height a depth—

—I would hold your chain taut if only you would let me—

—o my piece, my peace, […]

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You have a new Accomplishment... Discovered: The Fading Mind!
You've gained 1 x Antique Mystery
You've gained 3 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
The miners are stained with sweat and reef-dust from their labours. They require time to rest; to recuperate. (Removes Miners' Preparations)
Scintillack rattles by rail and pulley towards the maw of the Iron & Misery Co. Clarifying Station. (Removes Iron & Misery Scintillack Extraction)
The lamp-cats yawn and lounge, their repose at hand. (Removes Receptivity of the Lamp-Cats)
Some lamp-cats disappear into the zee. Others slink from the waters to take their place. (Removes Feline Argentation)
Back to the safety of port, until the tide recedes once more. (Removes Tides of Port Cecil:)
Your surveying progress has been washed away... (Removes Surveying Progress) (hidden)
A scintillack cluster shimmers and fades; in the coral mind of the Principles, a neuron winks out. Dissolution inches closer. (Raises Scintillack Dreaming by 1)