Reminisce with the Youthful Naturalist
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From: Spiralling Deeper with the (Diving-Bell)
Action Cost: 0
Game Instructions: New memories will emerge from the depths as you descend.
Unlocked with Hull Health 5
Success
Unravelling memories
Description summary:
The description changes as you lose Hull Health
Hull Health | Description |
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50 | "I can still feel the hole," […] "Where the Fathomking ripped out […] but there are fringes around the edges. […] Tattered memories. People […] telling me what to do […] Friends […] Priests. Everyone knew better. Even my parents—"
[…] I can barely remember them at all." |
41 | He continues to pick at loose threads around the hole […] Tracing one through his childhood […] Sandcastles. […] Intense brightness – and then a sting. "My first encounter with a jellyfish."
More stings […] He wanted one as a pet, but he wasn't allowed. […] |
32 | […] he describes sunbathing on a boat […] His colleague is saying something […] They're on a scientific voyage, collecting samples […]
[…] it's the shells he remembers the most. "Glossy […] Endlessly black. With perfect whorled ridges – exactly like little spirals." |
23 | His words are your ballast. You sink into the hole in the Naturalist's memory. You look around at the jungles, rustling leaves […] Fires kindled in midnight camps. […] Dunes rolling away beneath the Mountain's light. Waves rolling away behind the ship. […] |
14 | […]
"Maybe this was a mistake. It wouldn't be my first. […] I should've stayed on the Surface. […] His face is lit by greenish light. […] The man standing behind him puts a hand on his shoulder. "Take heart," says the Bishop […] "Every soul has its dark night." […] |
5 | […]
You follow one […] thread in his life's tapestry. […] It coils […] into the past […] onto a […] desk […] with […] a […] paperweight […] emblazoned with sentient script. A […] talon […] nudges the paperweight. Tremors travel along the […] thread […] Births. Ambitions. Destinies. Deaths. |
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