Provide the flavour of sorrow
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From: Light Fingers: A Family Visit
Let it taste the bitterness of a lost home.
Game Instructions: This will greatly increase its Humanity and set its Moon-Misery to zero.
Unlocked with 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber, 1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise, Time to visit Clara
Locked with The Hybrid's Maturity 5
Success
A few melancholy drops
[…] It falls silent, its eyes wide.
After a moment, it starts to laugh. You've never heard a child laugh so mirthlessly before.
"What on earth did you feed it?" demands Clara, snatching the child up in her arms.
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Humanity | Description |
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1 | Clara cradles the child in her arms and bops it on its nose. It giggles, and the sound is startlingly human. |
2 | Within the child's mandibles, its mouth is starting to develop lips. It goes and it coos, a sound more or less human. |
3 | As Clara takes the child back from you, it reaches out and delicately grasps her finger. She flashes you a smile. |
4 | The child's eyes (your eyes) are quick and lively. They follow you around the room, bright with innocence. It seems to have acquired a teddy-bear, which it drizzles lovingly in venom. |
5 | The child's hands are bigger, stronger, more flexible (though each finger is still tipped by talons). It has started to grab anything within reach - sticks, books, Dr Vaughan's hair - simply for the tactile pleasure of it. |
6 | The child totters around the cabin on segmented legs, delighting in its newfound ability to scuttle. It moves like a lobster or spider, but the arthropod veneer is broken when it looks up to you and laughs with joy. |
7 | Something catches the child's attention: Hephaesta has wandered in and is making broad, silly faces. It laughs uproariously. |
8 | "It spoke its first word the other day," says Clara proudly. "It said 'home,' and pointed to the ceiling." Dr Vaughan still looks as though she's in shock. |
9 - 10 | "There's every indication that the Hybrid has interiority, empathy, a full spectrum of emotion," […] The child scuttles back and forth beneath the cosmogone sky, grabbing at butterflies. "It's growing up into a person. It deserves freedom. […]" |
- The Hybrid has grown older. (Raises The Hybrid's Maturity by 1)
- You've gained 2 x The Hybrid's Humanity
- Your 'The Hybrid's Moon-Misery' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Time to visit Clara' Quality has gone!
- You've lost 1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise
- You've lost 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber
- A living story will begin soon. (Activates the Living story Weeks have passed since you last saw Clara; this message is not displayed.)
Categories:
- Nodule of Pulsating Amber
- Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise
- Time to visit Clara
- The Hybrid's Maturity
- Actions
- The Hybrid's Humanity Text Uses
- Ambition: Light Fingers!
- The Hybrid's Maturity Gain
- The Hybrid's Humanity Gain
- The Hybrid's Moon-Misery Loss
- Time to visit Clara Loss
- Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise Loss
- Nodule of Pulsating Amber Loss