A Web Hung Between the Stars

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 **Data ID** | 309799

**A Web Hung Between the Stars** is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

## Trigger conditions

Area: Limbo

Frequency: Always (100%)

## Interactions

An Eyeless Priest stands outside. Wordlessly, he hands you a copper box. | + Ambition: the Truth = 150 [Construct a Gallery of Aeons at Sky Barnet. You will need three Otherworldly Artefacts, 2000 sovereigns, a Condemned Experiment, and an extraordinary amount of hours]
You take it, and close the door. Inside the box is a glass phial. It contains the elaborate poison a dozen spider-councils have laboured over for the last seventy years. It is so rarefied it is not liquid or vapour. It is a thought, scintillant and shivering behind the glass.
Unstoppering the phial, you pour the venom-notion into a silver tea-pot.
The copper box was padded with newspaper to protect its contents. Curious, you unfold and flatten it.

An article about recurring Albion-wide blackouts following the Great Malfunction. Speculation that the Parliament of the Reach is debating a declaration of war. An account of the arrival of the wintery ambassadors of a distant white star, seeking an accord with London.+ Ambition: the Truth = 160 [Construct a Gallery of Aeons at Sky Barnet. You will need three Otherworldly Artefacts, 2000 sovereigns, a Condemned Experiment, and an extraordinary amount of hours]
It is the Presiding Deviless of Carillon, accompanied by a demure shade with a brass-trimmed death-mask. | + Ambition: the Truth = 160 [Construct a Gallery of Aeons at Sky Barnet. You will need three Otherworldly Artefacts, 2000 sovereigns, a Condemned Experiment, and an extraordinary amount of hours]
The Deviless sits primly on the edge of your chaise-longue. "I think you will find everything to your satisfaction: I would describe this shade's soul as irresistible.
"Not fortifying, but fascinating. Exhilarating, even. The equivalent of Turkish Delight, perhaps, rather than steak."
You smile at the shade and reach for the silver teapot. "Tea?"

The mother-poison does not affect it at all as it drinks. The shade's mind cannot perceive or conceive the venom-thought. That is as intended. The shade is not the victim, but the vector.+ Ambition: the Truth = 170 [Construct a Gallery of Aeons at Sky Barnet. You will need three Otherworldly Artefacts, 2000 sovereigns, a Condemned Experiment, and an extraordinary amount of hours]
The shade's naked soul is not visible, of course, nor would its virtues be apparent to you if it was.  | But you note its additional eyelids, arrayed one behind the other and only visible when it blinks in a distressing cascade. You note the many-jointed grace of its movements, and the marble-smooth skin of its hands, without follicle or fingerprint.
While it drinks, you enquire about the world outside. You have to push. The Deviless does not pay close attention to political events. | She describes the discovery of webs in the wastes: strung across once-lifeless spans of the sky.
She mentions the construction of a new transit relay to a recently-discovered region of the sky, "a place of change and forbidden arts."
She refers, with the edge of a smile, to the dismay of Londoners when they learned that the French had found their way to the heavens.

The handwriting is so improbably neat it could only be the work of a devil. | + Ambition: the Truth = 170 [Construct a Gallery of Aeons at Sky Barnet. You will need three Otherworldly Artefacts, 2000 sovereigns, a Condemned Experiment, and an extraordinary amount of hours]
It says, simply, "The shade has passed beyond Death's Door."
And that's it. You have moved each piece to its proper place. The rest of the work passes to someone – something – else.+ Ambition: the Truth = 180 [Construct a Gallery of Aeons at Sky Barnet. You will need three Otherworldly Artefacts, 2000 sovereigns, a Condemned Experiment, and an extraordinary amount of hours]
You push open the door to your Gallery of Aeons. You climb the brass-banistered stair. You emerge, and look up at the broken ruin of the Blue Kingdom. | + Ambition: the Truth = 180 [Construct a Gallery of Aeons at Sky Barnet. You will need three Otherworldly Artefacts, 2000 sovereigns, a Condemned Experiment, and an extraordinary amount of hours]

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