Exploring Polythreme

ID: 346014

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Where the streets have eyes and the houses have teeth. Walk a minute away from your ship and Polythreme doesn't so much surround as swallow you – foreboding streets snaking away like the veins in some vast, unknown body.

Game Instructions: Increase your Investigating Polythreme quality to unlock new options in this port.

Locked with

Storylet appears in

Options:

Speak to the Clay Men

•  Spoiler ID: 253656
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 120 || 82 - very chancy (41%) || 102 - chancy (51%) || 122 - modest (61%) || 142 - very modest (71%) || 162 - low-risk (81%) || 182 - straightforward (91%) || 200 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Practiced conversationalists

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  Investigating Polythreme is increasing… (+5 CP)
  •  You've gained 120 x Whispered Hint

  Failure

  Hard to parse

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  Investigating Polythreme is increasing… (+2 CP)

  ^

Watch the clothes-colonies

•  Spoiler ID: 253657
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 120 || 82 - very chancy (41%) || 102 - chancy (51%) || 122 - modest (61%) || 142 - very modest (71%) || 162 - low-risk (81%) || 182 - straightforward (91%) || 200 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Composites

  • Watchful is increasing…
  •  Investigating Polythreme is increasing… (+5 CP)
  •  You've gained 120 x Whispered Hint

  Failure

  Hidden

  • Watchful is increasing…
  •  Investigating Polythreme is increasing… (+2 CP)

  ^

Climb up to a rooftop

•  Spoiler ID: 253658
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 120 || 82 - very chancy (41%) || 102 - chancy (51%) || 122 - modest (61%) || 142 - very modest (71%) || 162 - low-risk (81%) || 182 - straightforward (91%) || 200 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  A body

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  Investigating Polythreme is increasing… (+5 CP)
  •  You've gained 120 x Whispered Hint

  Failure

  Unwelcome

  •  Investigating Polythreme is increasing… (+2 CP)

  ^

The way to the King's gardens

•  Spoiler ID: 253659
  

  Unlocked with  5
  Locked with
  

   

  Success

  Labyrinth

  Success Instructions: The Maze-Gardens can now be explored in Polythreme.
  

  • You have a new Accomplishment... Discovered: The Maze-Gardens!
  • 'Investigating Polythreme' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?

  ^

The layout of the streets

•  Spoiler ID: 253660
  

  Unlocked with  5,
  Locked with
  

   

  Success

  Deeper

  Success Instructions: The Streets of Polythreme can now be explored.
  

  • You have a new Accomplishment... Discovered: The Streets of Polythreme!
  • 'Investigating Polythreme' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?

  ^