Adventures with Beeswax and Flame

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 **Data ID** | 297700

**Adventures with Beeswax and Flame** is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

## Story description

*She pulls out the candle, places it on the floor and lights it. She gestures at you, and you start reciting the tale of terror. From the flame's tip grows a large, tear-shaped door of red and orange. The Princess claps her hands in glee. "Hold this. I don't want to risk ruining it. I fear fisticuffs will follow," she says, passing you her tiara. "Wait for my return. It'll only be a few minutes." She skips through the doorway. You stand there with only a tiny flame, an incongruous door and a rambling terrifying narrative for company. Soon you're joined by the most dangerous of companions – an idea.*

## Trigger conditions

Area: Limbo

Frequency: Always (100%)

## Interactions

The Princess needs you to keep telling this story to escape. Stop telling the story. The troublesome princess, troublesome no more.
*Game note: Success will end your journey with the Incognito Princess. She will not be pleased.*

You take a deep breath and stop the story. Or rather, you try. Your tongue serves another and will not rebel. You know the Princess will be returning shortly. Will she be aware of your betrayal? It's impossible to tell. You have no choice. The story continues and the door remains open.
The Princess steps through, dragging a leviathanical skin of monstrous appearance – it must have once covered some gargantuan insectoid beast.
"Oh, I just can't believe I was ever seen in this," she says, working its jaw like a puppet. "All fashion seems tawdry with hindsight. Don't worry. It's dead now. I killed it. It is now my special rug."
She then examines you, and smiles a little. "Oh, Captain – you seem a little down. Let me help. We don't want you crying, do we?"
A burst of fire sears your tear-ducts shut. She pats your face affectionately.
"Remember. This is to be a happy occasion."

She takes her tiara from you, places it on the brow of the skin, laughs at the sight of it, then returns it to her own head.+ -1 x Crew
+ +10 x Terror
+ Something Old = 30 [[COMPLETE]The Incognito Princess found what she sought at Piranesi]

You take a deep breath and stop the story. Or rather, you try. Your tongue serves another and will not rebel. You know the Princess will be returning shortly. Will she be aware of your betrayal? It's impossible to tell.
What are you missing? This is Saint Solonace's candle. St Solonace: a story cast into a well. This story will not end. Perhaps you need a well? You look, and then a possibility presents itself.
Your mouth. A well where stories come from, where stories are hid.

So... perhaps you have to eat the candle?**Triggers event:**  The Chaplains | **Eat the candle**
You're committed now.  | You see the hazy shape of the Princess through the door. There's no time to waste. You take the candle and push it into your still-story-spouting mouth. The beeswax crunches between your teeth, the flame still burning as you gag down every part of the candle. Afterwards, you feel it burn brightly inside you.
But for the flame and pain, one thing does end. The story. You stopped telling the story as soon as you swallowed the candle. You hear the princess make an oddly strained cry of surprise tinged with despair.
The door is gone. The princess is trapped.

It's only then that you realise something hard and sharp is still in your hand. The Princess' tiara. Her finest. Yours now.+ The Princess' End = 1
+ Incognito Princess = 0 [The Incognito Princess has left your locomotive.]
+ Learning about the Incognito Princess = 90 [[COMPLETE]You trapped the Incognito Princess in Piranesi]
+ Something Old = 0
+ Something New = 0
+ Something Borrowed = 0
+ Something Blue = 0
+ +1000 x Experience
+ -1 x Hearts
+ -1 x Veils
+ -1 x Iron
+ -1 x Mirrors
 **Abandon the plan to trap the Princess**
No, you're not eating a candle. | You have no choice. The story continues and the door remains open.
The Princess steps through, dragging a leviathanical skin of monstrous appearance – it must have once covered some gargantuan insectoid beast.
"Oh, I just can't believe I was ever seen in this," she says, working its jaw like a puppet. "All fashion seems tawdry with hindsight. Don't worry. It's dead now. I killed it. It is now my special rug."
She then examines you, and smiles a little. "Oh, Captain – you seem a little down. Let me help. We don't want you crying, do we?"
A burst of fire sears your tear-ducts shut. She pats your face affectionately.

"Remember. This is to be a happy occasion." She takes her tiara from you, places it on the brow of the skin, laughs at the sight of it, then returns it to her own head.+ Something Old = 30 [[COMPLETE]The Incognito Princess found what she sought at Piranesi]
 **Don't trap the princess**
It's best not to meddle. |  | **A success**
The Princess steps through the rift, happy and triumphant. Or rather, happier and more triumphant than the usual. She is dragging a leviathanical skin of monstrous appearance – it must have once covered some gargantuan insectoid beast.
"Oh, I just can't believe I was ever seen in this," she says, working its jaw like a puppet. "All fashion seems tawdry with hindsight. Don't worry. It's dead now. I killed it. It is now my special rug."

She takes her tiara from you, places it on the brow of the skin, laughs at the sight of it, then returns it to her own head.+ Something Old = 30 [[COMPLETE]The Incognito Princess found what she sought at Piranesi]

## Links

### Links Out

 The Chaplains

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