Editing Time Passing at Hunter's Keep (Guide)

{{GuideFor|Location = Hunter's Keep|Pages = Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago#Hunter's Insight}}{{Audience|EarlyZailing}}[[Has icon::File:Island2.png|right]]
{{ActivitySummary
|Activity=Time Passing at Hunter's Keep
|Length=Limited
|Starting Actions=4
|Progress Actions=24
|Ending Actions=2
|Progress Details=Raise {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Time Passing}} to 10. On subsequent cycles, starting actions can be disregarded.
|Output Items=*{{IL|Stone Tentacle-Key}}
*{{IL|Compromising Document}}
*{{IL|Journal of Infamy}}
*{{IL|Appalling Secret}}
*{{IL|Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe}}
*{{IL|Tale of Terror!!}}
*{{IL|Unusual Love Story}}
*{{IL|Proscribed Material}}
*{{IL|Map Scrap}}
*{{IL|Implacable Detective's Business Card}}
*{{IL|Whispered Hint}}
*{{IL|Jade Fragment}}
*{{IL|Nevercold Brass Sliver}}
*{{IL|Shard of Glim}}
*{{IL|Searing Enigma}}
*{{IL|Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax}}
*{{IL|Memory of Distant Shores}}
*{{IL|Mystery of the Elder Continent}}
*{{IL|Silk Scrap}}
*{{IL|Cryptic Clue}}
*{{IL|Vision of the Surface}}
*{{IL|Scrap of Incendiary Gossip}}
|Raw EPA = 1.53
|Locked=Yes
|Input Items=*{{IL|Whispered Hint}}
}}

{{IL|Hunter's Keep}} is located in {{IL|Home Waters}}. It can be [[Zailing (Guide)|zailed]] to immediately upon [[PoSI Item Crafting#Ship|obtaining a ship]]. The challenges are {{IL|Persuasive}} and {{IL|Watchful}} 110–125, plus a single {{IL|Dangerous}} 120 option.

All actions on the island are part of a carousel, which uses {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago}} as a progress quality. The main object of the carousel is the {{IL|Stone Tentacle-Key}}, which is needed for two of the [[Ambitions (Guide)|Ambitions]] ([[Heart's Desire – the Price of Desire|Heart's Desire]] and [[Ambition: Nemesis – The Prison|Nemesis]]) and in [[Evolution (Guide)|Evolution]]. To obtain it, you will need to go through the carousel twice: the first time culminates in raising {{IL|Hunter's Insight}}, which unlocks new options in the carousel the second time around, including those that lead to the key. You can have only one instance of the key at a time, so if you use it and want another, you'll have to come back.

Mechanically, the rewards aren't that great: the various carousel actions pay out in small quantities of common items, and the reward at the end of a cycle is {{IL|Extraordinary Implication|1 x}} and {{IL|Sudden Insight|1 x}}. It is more valuable from a storytelling perspective, as you spend your time on the island getting to know a mysterious trio of sisters and exploring their strange home.

It's worth noting that if your {{IL|Nightmares}} or {{IL|Wounds}} reach 8 while on the island, the following storylets autofire:

*[[What happened?]]: {{IL|Wounds}} 8 and at least 3 Time Passing
*[[Where are you?]]: {{IL|Nightmares}} 8 and at least 3 Time Passing
For {{IL|Scandal}} and {{IL|Suspicion}}, no special events occur at level 8.

==Progress==
Options marked with {{IL|Hunter's Insight}} are unlocked after the first cycle of the carousel.

[[Landing at Hunter's Keep]] sets {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} to 1. The carousel proper begins at Time Passing 3, which is the point it resets to at the end of a cycle. For most actions, success advances Time Passing by +2 CP, failure by +1 CP.

[[Leaving Hunter's Keep]] is an option available at any time from Time Passing 1. Doing so will reset your progress on the carousel, removing both {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} and {{IL|Hunter's Insight}}.

=== Time Passing 0–1: Arriving at Hunter's Keep ===
These stages only occur when you first arrive at Hunter's Keep, and do not repeat when the carousel loops.

'''No {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}}'''

* [[Landing at Hunter's Keep]]

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|+'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} exactly 1''' 
|-
! scope="col" |Storylet
! scope="col" |Option
! scope="col" |Challenge
! scope="col" |Success
! scope="col" |Failure
|-
|[[Go up to the house]]
|[[Knock at the door]]
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|111}}
|{{IL|Inkling of Identity|Appearance=|11}} {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+2}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+1}}
|}
'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} 1+'''
*[[Leaving Hunter's Keep]]

=== Time Passing 2–9: The island and the sisters ===
Once you've made your introductions at the house, you are able to look around the grounds.
{| class="mw-collapsible article-table" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0"
|+
'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} 2–6''' 
|-
! scope="col" |Storylet
! scope="col" |Option
! scope="col" |Challenge
! scope="col" |Success {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+2}}
! scope="col" |Failure {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Investigate the gardens]]
|[[Explore that mysterious hollow]]
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|115}}
|{{IL|Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax|Appearance=|50}} {{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|Appearance=|1}}
{{IL|Walking the Falling Cities|Appearance=|+1}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
|[[Walk along the beach]]
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|117}}
|{{IL|Mystery of the Elder Continent|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Walking the Falling Cities|Appearance=|+1}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Exploring the island]]
|[[Walk around the garden for a while]]
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|110}}
|{{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|Appearance=|2}}
|{{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
|[[Have a look in the boathouse]]
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|112}}
|{{IL|Silk Scrap|Appearance=|110}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+2}}
|}

At Time Passing 3, you get the chance to spend more time with the sisters and explore the house itself. Notably, you can reduce {{IL|Nightmares}} here by talking to Phoebe.

{| class="mw-collapsible article-table" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0"
|+
'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} 3–6''' 
|-
! scope="col" |Storylet
! scope="col" |Option
! scope="col" |Requirement
! scope="col" |Challenge
! scope="col" |Success {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+2}}
! scope="col" |Failure {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
|[[Take high tea with the ladies]]
|[[Tell them about yourself]]
|{{IL|Whispered Hint|Appearance=|50}}
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|114}}
|{{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|70}} {{IL|Whispered Hint|Appearance=|-50}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Talk to Phoebe]]
|[[Listen to her play the violin]]
|
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|115}}
|{{IL|Vision of the Surface|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Walking the Falling Cities|Appearance=|+1}} {{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|-1}}
|
|-
|[[Listen to her sing]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|117}}
|{{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|50}} {{IL|Approaching the Gates of the Garden|Appearance=|+1}} {{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|-2}}
|{{IL|Plagued by a Popular Song|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Talk to Lucy]]
|[[Talk to her]]
|
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|114}}
|{{IL|Scrap of Incendiary Gossip|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|7}} {{IL|Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus|Appearance=|+1}}
|
|-
|[[Ask her to take a stroll with you]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|116}}
|{{IL|Whispered Hint|Appearance=|116}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Talk to Cynthia]]
|[[Charm her]]
|
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|114}}
|{{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|57}} {{IL|Approaching the Gates of the Garden|Appearance=|+1}}
|
|-
|[[Swap stories with her]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}} {{IL|Melancholy|Appearance=|4}}
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|116}}
|{{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|58}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Look Around the House]]
|[[What's on the ground floor?]]
|
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|112}}
|{{IL|Compromising Document|Appearance=|2}}
|
|-
|[[What's on the first floor?]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|113}}
|{{IL|Journal of Infamy|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Approaching the Gates of the Garden|Appearance=|+1}}
|{{IL|Scandal|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
|[[What's in the attic?]]
|
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|114}}
|{{IL|Scrap of Incendiary Gossip|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Appalling Secret|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+1}}
|}
Time Passing 7 brings opportunities to learn more about the sisters and their home. There are also options here for those {{IL|Associating with a Youthful Naturalist}} (see the [[Evolution (Guide)|Evolution Guide]]) and those who've just begun [[Seeking Mr Eaten's Name (Guide)|seeking things they shouldn't]]. You can reduce {{IL|Wounds}} by talking to Lucy, or by trying the food on cycles with {{IL|Hunter's Insight}}.  
{| class="mw-collapsible article-table" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0"
|+
'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} 7–9''' 
|-
! scope="col" |Storylet
! scope="col" |Option
! scope="col" |Requirement
! scope="col" |Challenge
! scope="col" |Success {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+2}}
! scope="col" |Failure {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Dine with the ladies]]
|[[Charm the ladies]]
|
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|122}}
|{{IL|Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe|Appearance=|2}}
|
|-
|[[Try all the dishes]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|120}}
|{{IL|Tale of Terror!!|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|-2}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+2}} {{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Examine the books (Hunter's Keep)|Examine the books]]
|[[Look for something significant]]
|
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|121}}
|{{IL|Unusual Love Story|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Proscribed Material|Appearance=|2}} (Rare: {{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|Appearance=|5}})
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
|[[Search for a diary]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|122}}
|{{IL|Compromising Document|Appearance=|2}}
|{{IL|Scandal|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
|[[Look for something cartographic]]
|{{IL|Associating with a Youthful Naturalist|38|Appearance=}}{{IL|Hunter's Insight|1|Appearance=}}
|{{IL|Watchful|121|Appearance=}}
|{{IL|Map Scrap|11|Appearance=}}(Rare:{{IL|Implacable Detective's Business Card|1 x|Appearance=}})
|{{IL|Nightmares|+1|Appearance=}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Look more closely at the well]]
|[[Investigate 1|Investigate]]
|
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|121}}
|{{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|60}}
|
|-
|[[Look directly into the well]]
|{{IL|Unaccountably Peckish|Appearance=|3}}
|
|{{IL|Unaccountably Peckish|Appearance=|+2 (max 6)}} {{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+2}} {{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+2}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Find out more of Cynthia's story]]
|[[Try to cheer her up]]
|
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|119}}
|{{IL|Tale of Terror!!|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Walking the Falling Cities|Appearance=|+1}}
|{{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
|[[Talk to her seriously]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|121}}
|{{IL|Tale of Terror!!|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|10}}
|{{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Find out more of Phoebe's story]]
|[[Look for her in the parlour]]
|
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|118}}
|{{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|59}}
|{{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+2}}
|-
|[[Look for her in the garden]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|120}}
|{{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Whispered Hint|Appearance=|10}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Find out more of Lucy's story]]
|[[Talk to her 2|Talk to her]]
|
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|118}}
|{{IL|Scrap of Incendiary Gossip|Appearance=|2}} {{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|-1}}
|
|-
|[[Bring her a little gift]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|120}}
|{{IL|Scrap of Incendiary Gossip|Appearance=|1}} {{IL|Whispered Hint|Appearance=|70}}
|{{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+1}}
|}

=== Time Passing 9: The Stone Tentacle-Key ===
Finally, you get a chance to find out what's in the well.

Note that if you obtain the key [[Fish in the well|one way]] or [[What falls down the well?|another]], or if you [[Take your net to the well]] afterwards, {{IL|Hunter's Insight}} resets, locking you out of the other options that open up at Time Passing 9. In this case, you'll only have access to the Time Passing 7–9 actions until you reach Time Passing 10.

{| class="mw-collapsible article-table" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0"
|+'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} 9,''' with no {{IL|Stone Tentacle-Key}} 
|-
! scope="col" |Storylet
! scope="col" |Option
! scope="col" |Requirement
! scope="col" |Challenge
! scope="col" |Success
! scope="col" |Failure
|-
|[[Prepare to look down the well]]
|[[Equip yourself for a fishing expedition]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|123}}
|{{IL|Jade Fragment|Appearance=|70}} {{IL|Nevercold Brass Sliver|Appearance=|30}}
|{{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Go to the well]]
|[[Fish in the well]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Dangerous|Appearance=|120}}
|{{IL|Stone Tentacle-Key|Appearance=|1}} {{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|reset}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+1}} {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+1}}
|-
|[[What falls down the well?]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|120}}
|{{IL|Shard of Glim|Appearance=|100}} {{IL|Stone Tentacle-Key|Appearance=|1}} {{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|reset}} {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+2}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+2}} {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|+1}}
|}

{| class="mw-collapsible article-table" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0"
|+'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} 9,''' with a {{IL|Stone Tentacle-Key}} 
|-
! scope="col" |Storylet
! scope="col" |Option
! scope="col" |Requirement
! scope="col" |Challenge
! scope="col" |Success
! scope="col" |Failure
|-
|[[Prepare to find out what the well has to offer]]
|[[Prepare yourself]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|123}}
|{{IL|Tale of Terror!!|Appearance=|2}}
|
|-
|[[Take your net to the well]]
|[[Trust Cynthia's advice]]
|{{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|1}}
|{{IL|Watchful|Appearance=|125}}
|{{IL|Shard of Glim|Appearance=|1000}}(Rare: {{IL|Searing Enigma|Appearance=|1}} {{IL|Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus|Appearance=|+40}} {{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+2}}), {{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|reset}}
|{{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+2}}
|}


===Time Passing 10–13: Denouement===
You join the sisters for a game of charades. What you guess determines which ending you get for this cycle of the carousel; the rewards are nearly identical, but each one reveals something about one of the sisters.

'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} exactly 10'''
*[[A game of charades]]
**[[The three Graces?]]: {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|set to 11}}, {{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|+5 CP}}, {{IL|Hedonist|Appearance=|+3 CP (up to 10)}}
**[[The Furies?]]: {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|set to 12}}, {{IL|Dangerous|Appearance=|+5 CP}}, {{IL|Nightmares|Appearance=|+1 CP}}, {{IL|Daring|Appearance=|+3 CP (up to 10)}}
**[[The faces of Hecate?]]: {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|set to 13}}, {{IL|Shadowy|Appearance=|+5 CP}}, {{IL|Melancholy|Appearance=|+3 CP (up to 10)}}

'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} exactly 11'''
*[[Lucy finishes her story]]
**[[Gather round the piano]] {{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|123}}
***Success: {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|set to 3}}, {{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|set to 1}}, {{IL|Sudden Insight|Appearance=|1 (up to 21)}}, {{IL|Extraordinary Implication|Appearance =|1}}
***Failure: {{IL|Cryptic Clue|Appearance=|2}}

'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} exactly 12'''
*[[Cynthia finishes her story]]
**[[Take part in the chorus]]: {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|set to 3}}, {{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|set to 1}}, {{IL|Sudden Insight|Appearance=|1 (up to 21)}}, {{IL|Extraordinary Implication|Appearance =|1}}

'''{{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=Time Passing}} exactly 13'''
*[[Phoebe finishes her story]]
**[[Join the sisters in the herb-garden]] {{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=|123}}
***Success: {{IL|Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago|Appearance=|set to 3}}, {{IL|Hunter's Insight|Appearance=|set to 1}}, {{IL|Sudden Insight|Appearance=|1 (up to 21)}}, {{IL|Extraordinary Implication|Appearance =|1}}, {{IL|Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus|Appearance=|+1 CP}}
***Failure: {{IL|Wounds|Appearance=|+1 CP}}


You can leave the island as soon as you have the Stone Tentacle-Key, or stick around to hear the rest of the sisters' stories. If you lose your key and want another, you can get a replacement on a future trip to Hunter's Keep.
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