The Light-In-Exile

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Peligin: The colour of the deepest zee. The monstrous colour.

You only see a fraction of the creature […] You see teeth, needle-like and long. You see an appendage that glows with peligin light […] eyes wide as lakes. This is a warm thing in a cold place.

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Unlocked with a redirect from Chase the light in the darkness or Revisit the light in the darkness

Storylet appears in The Magistracy of the Evenlode

Options:

Reach for it

Spoiler ID: 244182
Locked with Discovered: the Lowest Floors of the Magistracy (hidden)

Success

Alone, no longer
- You are no longer diving. (Removes Diving Depth)
- Your 'Chasing the Glow of Peligin' Quality has gone!
- You've gained 1 x Primaeval Hint
- Monstrous Anatomy is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 5 + Monstrous Studies)
- You've gained 1 x Discovered: the Lowest Floors of the Magistracy
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Let it study you

Spoiler ID: 244191
Unlocked with Discovered: the Lowest Floors of the Magistracy (hidden)

Success

Alone, no longer
- Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained 1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
- Monstrous Anatomy is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 5 + Monstrous Studies)
Redirects to: Diving in the Magistracy
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Fill a mirrorcatch box with peligin light

Spoiler

Unlocked with

Mirrorcatch Box,

Monstrous Anatomy unmodified 7,

Discovered: the Lowest Floors of the Magistracy (hidden)

Success

Ensconced

You've lost 1 x Mirrorcatch Box
You've gained 1 x Peligin-filled Mirrorcatch Box

Redirects to: Diving in the Magistracy

Mirrorcatch Box Overview
Colour	Place	Storylet
Empty	Fiddler's Scarlet	Acquire a rarity
	The Magistracy of the Evenlode	(Side) for the defendant in a civil suit of Gondoliers against a Society Matron
	The Waswood	Reach towards the shore ( Airs 0-49, rare success)
	Upper River	Give a speech in Ealing Gardens/ Jericho Locks (rare success)
	Any Mirrorcatch Box in your Inventory^[1]	Empty a Mirrorcatch Box^[2]
Peligin	The Magistracy of the Evenlode	The Light-In-Exile
Peligin	Oneiric Pearl	Barter with a Listless Pearl-Diver^[3]
Violant	Khan's Heart	Walk into the Office of Naval Affairs (gives Corresponding Sounder)
Apocyan	The Pillared Sea	Drowning
Viric	Viric Jungle	Attend to the Dreamer
Cosmogone	The Dome of Scales	The Top of the Dome
Irrigo	Cave of the Nadir	A pause for refreshment
Irrigo	Rat Market ( Rat-Season: Dimmest-Dark, Freeze-and-Fall, or Lying-Longing^[4])	The Maundering Rat's Stall
Gant	Khan's Heart	All Gant
Gant	Rat Market ( Tempestuous Demand: 1 or 2^[5])	The Shrivelled Celebrant^[3]
Sun-Stamped	Cut with Moonlight FATE	The Alleys of London: the Criminals^[3]
Sun-Stamped	Cut with Moonlight FATE	Park and Palace: Society^[3]
Neathoscope	The Museum of Prelapsarian History	The Inorganic Sciences Wing
↑ Using the boxes where they are required will usually also return an empty box to you. ↑ Except for Sun-Stamped Mirrorcatch Box, which cannot be emptied. ↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Does not require an empty Mirrorcatch Box. ↑ (currently Take-and-Toil) ↑ (currently 0)