Time Passing on Mutton Island (Guide)

Early Zailing Content

General

Mutton Island is renowned for two things. The FRUITS OF THE ZEE festival, and increasing Stormy-Eyed. The latter is a part of a cycle which uses Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago (sometimes shortened TPitSA) as a progress quality. Note that you may only leave the island with Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago < 7

For the section of the island that's only available during FRUITS OF THE ZEE, see Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide)

Through the cycle, you may get Acquainted with Miriam Plenty's Past, which unlocks some interesting options in Mrs Plenty's Carnival once it reaches 3.

Converting Extraordinary Implications

All of these actions can be accessed from Discuss these Extraordinary Implications with the Custodial Chef

Time Passing

Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago 0-6

Storylet	Option	Requirement	Challenge	Success	Failure
Welcome to Mutton Island	Take a walk around the island		110	+2 CP	+1 CP  +1 CP
The Start of the Day	What are these three up to?		110	+2 CP	+1 CP
An Island with Secrets?	Take a quiet look around		110	+2 CP	+1 CP
				+2 CP  2 x AS
The Home of Rubbery Lumps	Try the Rubbery Lumps	4 x Maniac's Prayer		+1 CP -1 CP  +2 CP  -4 x Maniac's Prayer
The Mutton Island Wind	I bid the wind speak	Stormy-Eyed 1		+1 CP  +2 CP
	The voice of the wind		110	+2 CP  +1 CP	+1 CP
				+2 CP
Leaving Mutton Island	Head to your ship at the jetty	A Ship		Reset  Move to Your Cabin

Time Passing in the Southern Archipelago 9

Storylet	Option	Challenge	Success	Failure
All options reset TPitSA, unless stated
Crash!	Rescue the crew		Affects quirks 1 x Favours: The Docks
	Help yourself to 'salvage'		Affects quirks 600 x Shard of Glim
A Great Feast	Attend the Feast		+2 CP -3 CP  -3 CP
A Procession to the Cliff-top	Follow them up the path	116	2 x Extraordinary Implication 7 x Appalling Secret	+3 CP
A Wind to Chill the Heart	What does it portend?	120	2 x Extraordinary Implication 7 x AS +3 CP	+2 CP  100 x Whispered Hint Doesn't reset
A scrap of a Diary	It would be criminal not to	115	2 x Extraordinary Implication 60 x Cryptic Clue +1 CP	+3 CP

Stormy-Eyed Strategy

If you've visited Mutton Island in order to increase Stormy-Eyed, you will know that you can only use the useful option if your Time Passing quality is below 7. While you could go through the cycle multiple times and also get the other rewards of the cycle, there is a faster way to grind Stormy-Eyed, namely by leaving the island whenever you reach at least level 6 with 5+ CP.

Leaving the island takes 1 action to return to your ship, 0 to choose your destination and choose a route, ~2 actions to zail (circle the island?), and 0 to dock, for a total of 3 actions wasted to reset Time Passing. (Disembarking without leaving port is no longer possible at Mutton Island.) This produces 13/16≈0.81 CP of Stormy-Eyed per action and 0. If you stay on the island for the whole cycle, you get 14/23≈0.61 CP per action, but also acquire saleable goods; with Well Watching you'll acquire approximately 13 per cycle, for ~0.57 EPA, and the final action nets your choice of Favours: The Docks, -3 CP  and -3 CP , or 6.20.

Taking the optimal EPA given that you are primarily maximising Stormy-Eyed, you'll net about 0.77 EPA to go with 0.61 CP/A, vs. 0 EPA and 0.81 CP/A for aborting the carousel mid-turn. This is fairly early PoSI content, so compared to Unfinished Business storylets which net roughly 1.1 EPA, this is a relatively favourable return. For characters with access to advanced professions or late-game content, running the aborted carousel and then running some other Money-Making Grind is likely more efficient. Piracy also pushes toward aborting the carousel and returning.