A Visionary Companion

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**A Visionary Companion** is considered a Hidden Quality Officer: Forged Companion in Sunless Skies.

## Obtaining

Hidden Qualities are used to track various things and are invisble to the player.

## Quality status

**A Visionary Companion** has different statuses according to your actions, defined by the comment in front of the quality.

### Variable Interaction description

These desciptions appear when a specific group is called for text.

#### WriteAPoem

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* **[**1**]** It is an ode to the lonely beauty of the starlight, with deceptively simple imagery that conceals layers of meaning that multiply and shift as you read. In just a few short lines, it inspires awe, despair, and transcendental joy. "

#### TeachMe

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* **[**1**]** \"Do you know that the rate of scientific discovery is increasing exponentially?\" says the Studious Forged Companion. \"By comparing evidence from texts written at different points within the last one thousand years, we can, if our minds are open to the possibilities, envision the revelations that will be made ten, fifty, even a hundred years from now.\"\n\nThe Companion does not attempt to explain how they arrived at their extraordinary conclusions, but instead fills you with wonder at the future awaiting the terrestrial and skyfaring alike."

#### FightMe

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* **[**1**]** The Pugilsitic Forged Companion strides towards you, their body glowing in the dark cabin. Their first punch catches you in the jaw; the explosion of pain is exhilarating. You try to retaliate, but the Companion's movements are arrhythmic and unpredictable. The few retaliatory blows you land are absorbed by their elastic skin.\n\nWhen the Companion judges that you have relieved enough tension, it darts behind you, strikes your knees from behind and kicks you in the back just as your legs buckle. \n\nThe blood rushes in your ears as you clamber back to your feet, and you feel more alert than you have for days."

#### DoATrick

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* **[**1**]** The Illusive Forged Companion picks up the watch by the chain, so that it swings from their glowing hand. In their expressionless voice, they describe the oscillation of the watch so that you cannot help but focus all of your attention upon it. \n\nThe Companion continues to talk, but you cannot remember their words from moment to moment, so absorbed are you by the swaying of the metal disc. There is a tickle at your ankle and you reach down to brush away – a spider! Then another little beast is crawling up your neck, and inside your sleeves, and— \n\n—but there are no spiders. The Companion returns to their card tricks."

#### IllusiveRoot

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* **[**1**]** The Illusive Forged Companion is practicing mesmerism on a glassy-eyed mouse."

#### Gaze

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* **[**1**]** Their unclothed body is smooth and featureless, glowing softly as the starshine sloshes gently within. \"I hope I please you,\" the Companion says, and you catch a glimpse of the starshine that lines its mouth, gleaming like iridescent glass."

#### AGentleAwakening

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* **[**1**]** The imagery is sublime, the metaphors subtle yet perceptive. Moreover, the central figure – an intrepid skyfarer – bears unmistakable similarities to yourself!"

#### VolumePoetryRoot

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* **[**1**]** The Poetic Forged Companion gives you a volume of poetry. Its use of language is unorthodox, yet the concerns it wrestles with are universal."

#### Infamy

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* **[**1**]** Its subject is not named, but it bears many similarities to you. You did not realise you had so many flaws, or that your exploits were so piteous."

#### APoetryReading

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* **[**1**]** The crew are sprawled at the feet of the Poetic Forged Companion, who is reading their latest composition aloud. Heads lolling, jaws slack, the crew stare witlessly at the Companion, completely intoxicated by their verse."

#### APoetryReadingBranch

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* **[**1**]** The intervention needs to be dramatic if it is to wrench the crew from their stupor."

#### APoetryReadingResult1

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* **[**1**]** You conjure memories of the long hours your crew have spent toiling in the cold with you, the times you have saved their lives and they yours, and desperately urge them to listen to you, their captain, and return to their duties.\n\nWiping the drool from their mouths, they turn their attention away from the Poetic Forged Companion and stagger to their feet. The Companion continues to recite their poetry in a toneless voice, unperturbed by the disappearance of their audience.\n\nIt is troubling that such effort should be required to impel the crew to do their jobs. What is more, the same speech will not have an impact a second time."

#### StorageRoot

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* **[**1**]** The Illusive Companion hypnotises your crew, softly reciting a mantra about your physical power. Impressed, the mesmerised crew stare at you in awe. \"Pardon me,\" says a signaller in a dreamy voice, \"but since you are so strong, do you think you could move my bunk into a more comfortable position? It is welded to the floor, but I am sure you could manage.\""

#### AMagicShowRoot

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* **[**1**]** The Illusive Forged Companion is entertaining the crew by hypnotising them. At first, the volunteers believe themselves to be chickens, much to their crew mates' amusement, but before long the Companion is convincing them that they are floating through the Wilderness, with no hope of recovery. The volunteers panic."

#### EyesGems

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* **[**1**]** You push the gemstones into the eye sockets. The starshine has become gelatinous, so the stones quiver on the surface rather than sinking to the back of the head. "

#### EyesSeeds

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* **[**1**]** You push the seeds into the eye sockets. The starshine has become gelatinous, so they quiver on the surface rather than sinking to the back of the head. In the light from the furnace, the seeds look dark and inscrutable; it is impossible to tell where the Companion is looking."

#### BringAboard

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* **[**1**]** softly glowing"

#### Destroy

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* **[**1**]** You press the point of the blade against the taut skin of their chest. As soon as it pierces the thick membrane, starshine spurts out, drenching your hand and splashing onto the floor. The Companion crumples to its knees.\n\nOnce the last of the starshine has trickled away, all that remains is the Companion's damp, twitching skin, "

#### Knuckles

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* **[**1**]** It leaves, clenching its starshine-filled fists with a soft squelch."

#### Fists

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* **[**1**]** Every blow from their starshine-filled fists lands with a squelch, and before long the crew lie sprawled upon the floor, clutching their wounds."

#### Encounter

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* **[**1**]** squelching their liquid-filled knuckles"

#### StorageFail

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* **[**1**]** It is no good; the bunk is far too heavy to lift. The dreamy look in the signaller's eyes fades as they watch you struggle. \"You know,\" they say, their voice hardening, \"I had the strangest dream. You were there, except you were as strong as a Clay Man. Most odd. Must have been something I ate.\""

#### Perception2

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* **[**1**]** The Illusive Forged Companion whispers a stream of instructions: concentrate on your breath, you are the breath, drifting through the Wilderness, unfettered by—\n\nYou grasp the delicately-painted crockery tightly as the hallucination becomes more vivid. Whenever the vertigo of the illusory Wilderness threatens to overwhelm you, you focus your attention on the cool china beneath your fingertips.\n\nOnce the Companion stops whispering, you are less afraid, more able to face the challenges ahead. Unfortunately, you are also surrounded by broken crockery, and your hands are riddled with porcelain splinters."

#### Perception3

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* **[**1**]** The Illusive Forged Companion whispers a stream of instructions: concentrate on your breath, you are the breath, drifting through the Wilderness, unfettered by—\n\nYour hallucinatory flight through the illusory Wilderness becomes more vivid, but you never feel afraid. On the contrary, the aimless drifting soothes your turbulent mind.\n\nAfter some time, you gradually return to your senses. It is as if you have been on a restorative holiday, and you feel calmer, more rested, and better equipped to face the challenges ahead. It is only when you realise that you have been in a trance for three days that your sense of well-being is tempered with annoyance."

#### DangerousIllusion

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* **[**1**]** I hypnotised them to ease their anxiety. They supplied the drinks themselves."

#### Fists2

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* **[**1**]** The Pugilistic Forged Companion descends upon the crew. Every blow from their starshine-filled fists lands with a squelch, and before long the crew lie sprawled upon the floor, clutching their wounds. One of them lies motionless on the floor, so battered you cannot determine their identity. At least they will need no more supplies.

## Interactions

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