A Zailor In The Making

Zailing

There may come a time when even London is too small for your ambitions. What do they say about the Unterzee?
Unlocks: Dangerous 69
 

Sign on to a glim-steamer

A life on the low seas is for you. Well, a few weeks on the low seas at least.
 
almost impossible challenge at Dangerous 80, High Risk at Dangerous 82

Rewards spoiler

Belay that, lubber!

It's an inglorious start to your career as a zailor, but a necessary one. You learn about the steam engines, the glim-nets and all that strange terminology that the zailors like zo much. So much.
The work is hard and cold and often wet. The Unterzee is brutally dangerous, for all it lacks the savage storms of the surface. There are things down there. Huge, hungry things that could swallow a glim-steamer. Nothing particularly untoward happens, but it is a tense voyage, and everyone is relieved when the glim-holds are full and the steamer turns back to shore.

Rewards:
Dangerous increase
84 x Glim
A twist in your tale! You are now a Zailor in the making.

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A trip around the Southern Archipelago

Hands are signing on for a trip around the notoriously dangerous waters of the Southern Archipelago.
Unlocks: Dangerous 81

Sign on for the voyage

Drudgewick, Shrub, Mutton Island. Once part of the surface city: now these specks in the Unterzee make zailors curse and cross themselves.

Rewards spoiler

Madmen and Mutton Island

Not two hours into the voyage, your steamer is ambushed by the Israelite, the dread vessel of the grandiosely named 'Circumcellion Brotherhood'. Club-wielding maniacs swarm aboard, shouting religious slogans and seeking both plunder and martyrdom. It is a curious experience stabbing people who are genuinely pleased to be stabbed.

The rest of the journey is uneventful. Cargo is offloaded on a Mutton Island jetty and taken on at Marlowe Bog. The pay isn't much, but you are starting to become respected as a zailor.

Rewards:
A Zailor in the Making increase
20 x Glim

failure

Lunatics off the port bow

Barely two hours into the voyage, your steamer is attacked by the Israelite, the dread vessel of the grandiosely named 'Circumcellion Brotherhood'. Club-wielding maniacs swarm aboard, shouting religious slogans and seeking both plunder and martyrdom. The fight goes badly for your crew, and you end up hurled overboard. You float ashore not far from Winewound Heath.

Dangerous increase
Wounds increase

Gather round me bully boys…

Zailors are exchanging tales of far lands in the taproom of the Blind Helmsman.
Unlocks: Dangerous 93

Pull up a stool and a tankard

The zailors don't like talking about the lands across the Unterzee in front of strangers. But surely you've earned your place among them?
(High risk at Dangerous 106)

Rewards spoiler

Far lands and tall tales

The zailors make room for you around the fire, and yarn about the dark places over the water. Some of the yarns may even be true.

London has a seldom-discussed colony somewhere across the Unterzee on the Carnelian Coast. The Elder Country is lush, dark and mysterious. It contains the Presbyterate, where men live forever. Wilder stories come out when the zailors are deep in their cups. Clay Men come from Polythreme, where even the walls are alive. Hell sponsors the Iron Republic, the city of anarchists where the laws of nature are overturned as readily as the laws of men. The evening finishes with a fist-fight over the nature of 'the Pillars': a formation in a desert, an abandoned city of glass or a village of savage women.

Rewards:
Dangerous increase
100 x Cryptic Secret
A Zailor in the Making has increased to 3!

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