Chimer

Chimer is the capital of the The Chimeric Empire. There are no shops here.

## Description

*An ancient maze of weaving stone walls and copper statues and ziggurats. Great bronze bells toll the hour, every hour.*

*Deep in the centre of the labyrinth-city, the Ragged Emperor rules from a sprawling complex of gardens and mansions.*

## Interactions

### Rest and recover.

Requires: Sanity damage.

*You've spent a long time in darkness. Your crew need a few days to blow off steam.*

-35 G

Does **not** restore Sanity.

### Repair your hull.

Requires: Hull damage.

*The chicken-headed mechanics swarm about your kinetopede, clucking enthusiastically.*

-# G

Hull to max

### Gather news.

Requires: 0 Current Affairs: Chimer

*The faces of the city pass rumours to each other in whispers. Hopefully the message hasn't been too mangled.*

+1 Current Affairs: Chimer

### The court of the Ragged Emperor.

Once per visit

*Patchwork soldiers guard the doors of the palace, but they let you pass without bothering to check your credentials. Perhaps you can compete for the Emperor's favour...*

Possible results:

* +1 Scandalous Gossip
* +1 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire
* -1 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire

### Explore the maze-city

Once per visit

*You will need a compass, a candle, and a pistol with a single bullet in the chamber.*

Possible results:

* +1 Terrible Secret
* +1 Reflection on Mortality
* -1 Terrible Secret, +1 Bleak Fable

### The Emperor wishes to send you on a secret mission.

Requires: 10+ Reputation:The Chimeric Empire, no Empire's Overthrow

Empire's Overthrow 1

### Report to the Emperor that Feverbeard paid his taxes and everything is in order.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 2

Always: -1 Stability: The Chimeric Empire, Empire's Overthrow 3

+2 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire, +400 G

OR (result appears random)

-2 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire

### Report to the Emperor that Feverbeard is defiant and refuses to pay.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 2

-2 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire

Empire's Overthrow 3

### An expedition into the heart of the labyrinth-city.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 3, multiple checks

Success:

* Always: +1 Moment of Melancholy, Empire's Overthrow 4
* Sometimes: -Sanity, +1 Divine Reproach: Morbazar, +1 Stability: Chimeric Empire

Failure: +Wound, +1 Horrifying Ordeal

### Report to the Emperor that Chimer will bother his soldiers no longer.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 4

If you are helping the faces: +1 Undreamt Treasure, +2 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire

If you are helping the emperor: -2 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire

Empire's Overthrow 5

### Bring stories of violence to the statue at Chimer's heart.

Requires: Agreed to help the statue, 1 War Story or 1 Lurid Tale

*It craves to hear of blood.*

Choices:

* -1 War Story, -1 Stability: The Chimeric Empire
* -1 Lurid Tale, -1 Stability: The Chimeric Empire

### Report to the Emperor that the Painted Queen is loyal.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 6

-1 Stability: The Chimeric Empire

-2 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire

Empire's Overthrow 7

### Report to the Emperor that the Painted Queen is plotting rebellion.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 6

-2 Reputation: The Chimeric Empire

Empire's Overthrow 7

### Report to the Emperor that you have delivered the rebels' plans to the loyalists.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 8

This definitely gives -100 Reputation: Chimeric Empire if you've been working against the emperor, and may do so even if you've been working for him.

Empire's Overthrow 9

### The Emperor's grip on the throne is stronger than ever.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 9, 9+ Stability: The Chimeric Empire

### Thanks to your efforts, the Emperor's reign comes to a calamitous end.

Requires: Empire's Overthrow 9, 0 Stability: The Chimeric Empire

*Since the Ragged Emperor was overthrown and the Chimeric Empire collapsed, its bells have been silent. The city has swallowed most of the patchwork soldiers, leaving only a few half-human survivors picking out a meager living in the labyrinth.*

+40 Apprehensions

+1 Stability: The City of Keys

+1 Unique Experience: Witnessed the downfall of an Empire

+1 Dread Machinations

### "This way to the Key," says Sandy, dashing away.

Requires: Sandy Bracket on board, Increasingly Desperate Shenanigans 2

Increasingly Desperate Shenanigans 3 or end Increasingly Desperate Shenanigans

+300 G