Strange Catch

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ID: 110611

Dragged unwilling from the deeps.

Hire a fishing boat on Mutton Island to land a Strange Catch.

Strange Catch is a Stories quality.

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(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Land your catch, an Action from Going fishing, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

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Time, the Healer, a Living story.

(FRUITS OF THE ZEE) You dream of firm hands carrying you up the hillside, an Action from Over-Indulgence, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Head to your ship at the jetty, an Action from Put to Zee! (Mutton Island), a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Perform the ritual erroneously, an Action from Aquatic Alchemy, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Ask the Custodial Chef to prepare your Strange Catch, an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FATE FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer your Strange Catch to the Drownies: Reprise (25 FATE), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Climb aboard 1, an Action from Catch the ferry back to London 1, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer your Strange Catch to the Mayor, an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer assistance to Jervaise, an Action from The Parlour of Virtue, On Holiday, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Follow them to the well, an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Attempt to neutralise the rite's troublesome aspect, an Action from Aquatic Alchemy, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Give your Strange Catch to the Melancholy Curate, an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Perform the ritual perfectly, an Action from Aquatic Alchemy, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer your Strange Catch to the Drownies, an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer a Hooded Lady your Strange Catch, an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

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(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) The Lobsterman shakes his head (Lock), an Action from Hire a fishing boat, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Set out (Lock), an Action from Hire a fishing boat, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer a Hooded Lady your Strange Catch (Unlock), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) The Lobsterman shakes his head (Unlock), an Action from Hire a fishing boat, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer assistance to Jervaise (Unlock), an Action from The Parlour of Virtue, On Holiday, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Begin the experiment (Unlock), an Action from F.F. Gebrandt's Travelling Exhibition, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer your Strange Catch to the Mayor (Unlock), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Give your Strange Catch to the Melancholy Curate (Unlock), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Ask the Custodial Chef to prepare your Strange Catch (Unlock), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Follow them to the well (Unlock), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FATE FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer your Strange Catch to the Drownies: Reprise (25 FATE) (Unlock), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer your Strange Catch to the Drownies (Unlock), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

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Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide) (Old) (Formula)

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Give your Strange Catch to the Melancholy Curate (Formula), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Ask the Custodial Chef to prepare your Strange Catch (Formula), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

(RETIRED FRUITS OF THE ZEE) Offer a Hooded Lady your Strange Catch (Formula), an Action from The Fruits of the Zee Festival!, a Storylet in Mutton Island.

Level Change Descriptions

1: You inspect your catch. What is it? Apart from glistening, wriggling and rude?

2: If you crossed a pumpkin with a lobster you'd get the front end of whatever this is. The other end is best undisclosed.

3: It squirts ink of electric violant as you wrestle it into the boat. Accept your defeat in good grace, wretched echinoderm!

4: At first you thought you'd caught a pair of gossamer eels. But no. One eel; two heads. They both frown at you.

5: Something fleshy, purple and shy retreats into its knobbly shell, which is crowded with fierce glyphs. Natural? Or has someone been illuminating crustaceans again?

6: Your catch flops around in the bottom of the boat, droning like a bored bee. It would look like a starfish, if starfish had a guileless brown eye blinking on each arm.

7: Your catch is inconveniently ambulant. It keeps trying to wander grumpily back into the water. You give it a good talking to and hit it with an oar.

8: Your catch flutters luxurious rainbowed fins, prim as a peacock.

9: Oh, look. Just what fish needed: pedipalps. You get a close look at them as it gamely tries to catch your head in a net of sodden silk.

10: Gills? Yes. Groping photophores? Yes. Spines pregnant with caustic venom? Yes. Verifiably yes.

11+: The thing sighs and lifts nine tentacles toward you. Each holds a soggy candle stub. You're not falling for that. Into the pot with you, marine horror.