Tales of the Tabernacle (Guide)

FATE-locked Early Zailing Content

Tales of the Tabernacle Summary
Variable-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
1 A				0+ A				3 A
Progress Details			Raise Traces of the Tabernacle. Get Tracking the Pale Tabernacle to unlock the plot.
Items Inputs/Outputs Outputs Mortification of a Great Power Muscaria Brandy Palimpsest Scraps
Raw EPA						4.50
Special						A 300 Action plot must be completed in order to unlock cashing out.

This guide covers the Premium Story The Pale Tabernacle. This content is FATE-locked, so per this Wiki's Content Policy, the covered content will not otherwise be included on the Wiki, and the guide may contain mechanical descriptions but not narrative content. Storylets, Cards, and Actions will be identified by images and mechanical properties, but not by name.

Overview

Once unlocked from the storylet on Mutton Island during the Fruits of the Zee Festival, the story is told through three gold-bordered cards drawn while zailing the Unterzee. Actions on the cards raise Traces of the Tabernacle which can be cashed out as Mortification of a Great Power, Muscaria Brandy, and Palimpsest Scrap after completing an unlockable plot.

A fourth card, of Infrequent Frequency, raises Tracking the Pale Tabernacle to 1 which unlocks this plot. Completing the Plot allows you to zail to the Pale Tabernacle yourself, once. This cannot be drawn again, nor the plot restarted, until you have visited the Pale Tabernacle.

Cards

All options raise Zailing... (with one exception) and Traces of the Tabernacle. Most raise troubled waters, even on a success. The three standard cards each have advanced skill checks (with the standard location-dependent challenge level), which offer 450 Traces. There are alternative options with easier or no challenges that pay out 400 instead. One unusual option is challengeless, doesn't increase Zailing... and only pays out 350 Traces of the Tabernacle, but it also gives a Vision of the Surface to compensate.

The fourth card can only be drawn when Tracking the Pale Tabernacle is 0.

Card	Options	Challenge/Requirement	Success	Failure
		Sampling His Lordship's Private Cellar	Traces 400 Nightmares -2 CP Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)	N/A
		An Initiate into the Perfumer's Arts Kataleptic Toxicology	Traces 450 Troubled Waters +1 CP Zailing... +( Speed)	Traces 350 Troubled Waters +3 CP The specter of mutiny stalks the ship. Zailing... +( Speed/2)
			Traces 350 Vision of the Surface 1 Troubled Waters +2 CP	N/A
		Crimson Captain 4 Upon Pale Shores	Traces 300 Palimpsest Scrap 3 Wounds +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)	N/A
		Zailing Speed 45	Traces 450 Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed)	Traces 350 Your crew hungers. Troubled Waters +4 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)
		A Ragtag Gang of Outlaws	Traces 450 Wounds +2 CP Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)	N/A
		Hellish Hymn 4 Upon Pale Shores	Traces 450 Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed)	N/A
		Aria of Tranquillity Monstrous Anatomy	Traces 450 Troubled Waters -1 CP Nightmares +3 CP Zailing... +( Speed)	Traces 350 Nightmares +? CP Wounds +? CP Troubled Waters +? CP Zailing... +( Speed/2}}
		Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax 100 Zeefaring	Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax -100 Traces 450 Troubled Waters +1 CP Zailing... +( Speed)	Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax -100 Traces 350 Troubled Waters +5 CP
		Zubmersibility	Traces 450 Troubled Waters +3 CP Nightmares +1 CP Zailing... +( Speed)	N/A
		Zeefaring	Traces 450 Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)	Traces 300 Troubled Waters +5-7(?) CP Your ship has sustained damage. Zailing... +( Speed/2)
		Luxurious	Traces 450 Scrap of Incendiary Gossip 2 Scandal +2 CP Troubled Waters +1 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)	N/A
		The Flower from Hell that Grows Under Your Skin 2 Upon Pale Shores	Traces 450 Nightmares +2 CP Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)	N/A
		Watchful 110 + (10 per Horticulture + 20 per Horticultural Society)	Traces 450 Zailing... +( Speed)	?
Unlocked with Tracking the Pale Tabernacle exactly 0
		Zeefaring	Traces 450 Tracking the Pale Tabernacle 1 Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)	?
			3x Memory of Distant Shores Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed)	N/A
		Upon Pale Shores	Traces 400 Tracking the Pale Tabernacle 1 Troubled Waters +2 CP Zailing... +( Speed/2)	N/A

Cashing Out

Using a Nautical Agent to complete the plot takes 300 actions. It has Exploration and Watchful challenges. It pays out 3900 Traces of the Tabernacle on success or 3500 Traces of the Tabernacle on failure.

Succeeding the plot unlocks an option at your cabin to zail to a new location in a randomised area of the Zee. Arriving allows you to cash out Traces of the Tabernacle for Mortifications of a Great Power, Muscaria Brandy, and Palimpsest Scraps at a rate of 1 trace to 1 penny value, prioritising the higher value items. The first visit gives a bonus of roughly 65E.

Each visit to the Pale Tabernacle increases Upon Pale Shores by 1. Raising Upon Pale Shores progressively unlocks new options to talk to the Tabernacle's inhabitant(s) for lore, until Upon Pale Shores 5, when you get the final lore drop, Upon Pale Shores 7, and a Reported Location of a One-Time Prince of Hell. Upon Pale Shores does not rise beyond 7.