Provide the flavour of sorrow

ID: 238079

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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.

[See table below]

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

Humanity	Description
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. (Increases 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.)