Meet with a bright and fading mind

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From: The Perigee of Silver

A small cave beckons from just beyond the tideline, inset in a stretch of rock where there was no cave before. Silver light flickers from within.

Unlocked with The reef experiences a rare moment of peace... < 3 and ...and a Fading Mind finds clarity in the quiet. < 3

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Resignation

[…]O distant flame, o pinprick night—

—a quiet in this endless fractured waking—

—was it too much to ask to be your anchor?—

—for every weightless height a depth—

—I would hold your chain taut if only you would let me—

—o my piece, my peace, […]

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• You have a new Accomplishment... Discovered: The Fading Mind!
•  You've gained 1 x Antique Mystery
•  You've gained 3 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
• The miners are stained with sweat and reef-dust from their labours. They require time to rest; to recuperate. (Resets to 0)
• Scintillack rattles by rail and pulley towards the maw of the Iron & Misery Co. Clarifying Station. (Resets to 0)
• The lamp-cats yawn and lounge, their repose at hand. (Resets to 0)
• Some lamp-cats disappear into the zee. Others slink from the waters to take their place. (Resets to 0)
• Back to the safety of port, until the tide recedes once more. (Resets to 0)
• Your surveying progress has been washed away... (Resets to 0) (hidden)
•  A scintillack cluster shimmers and fades; in the coral mind of the Principles, a neuron winks out. Dissolution inches closer. (Increases Scintillack Dreaming by 1)