The Kelp Fortress

The Kelp Fortress is the main settlement of the carchar. It is located between Oddwinter, The Cities, and The Ghoulwatch.

Description
''A grimy citadel with walls of sea-starved kelp, every strand brown and withered. The carchar summon salt-water from other worlds to try to keep it alive, but there is never enough.''

''Plucked from oceanic worlds, most carchar accept their lives as second-class citizens in landbound cities. Here, though, the orthodox and the elite cling to tradition.''

Repair your hull.
Requires: Hull damage.

''A carchar named Metal-biter hangs around in the human-permitted district, fixing kinetopedes for petty cash. He bends iron girders with his oversized jaws.''

Hull to max

Gather news.
Requires: 0 Current Affairs: The Kelp Fortress

The carchar do not write, so all news travels by word of mouth.

+1 Current Affairs: The Kelp Fortress

Wander the permitted districts.
Once per visit

''Non-carchar are only allowed in certain areas of the citadel. Further in, you are liable to be devoured.''

Possible results:
 * +1 Moment of Melancholy
 * +1 Reflection on Mortality
 * +1 Droll Recollection
 * +1 Cultural Knowledge: Carchar, +1 Lurid Tale

Study the carchar language
Once per visit, and requires 40+ Esoterica and 0 Carchar passengers

A blind old carchar offers to teach you if you take him to the City of Keys.

+1 carchar Passenger

+1 Cultural Knowledge: Carchar

+1 Reputation: Carchar

You are invited to attend a Hammerheads' ball.
Requires: 8+ Reputation: Carchar

+1 Breathtaking Spectacle

Help Otto capture an ichthyid hound.
Requires: Otto Von Hornbach on board, A Zoological Adventure 1

+1 Ichthyid Hound

Hand Peter McNally over to the carchar for study.
Requires: Heart and Mind 3

Don't mention the scorpiopede you destroyed.

Heart and Mind 5

Pick up Peter as you promised.
Requires: Heart and Mind 4

The Hammerheads should have finished their studies by now.

Heart and Mind 5

+1 Breathtaking Spectacle

+1 Cultural Knowledge: Carchar

+3 Reputation: Carchar

+1 Dread Machinations

+1 Historical Curio

+1 Peter McNally

Return Librosteus's deck of black cards to the carchar.
Requires: Lucetta Quetzel on board, 1 Cards of Librosteus

Always: +1 Cultural Knowledge: Carchar, +1 Forgotten Legend, +1 Disquieting Incident

Success: -1 Cards of Librosteus, +1 Unique Experience: Saved your soul in a card game, +1 Bleak Fable, +3 Reputation: Carchar

Possible results of failure:
 * -Cards of Librosteus, -Sanity, -Lucetta Quetzel, end Stolen and Returned
 * -1 Cards of Librosteus, -Sanity, -3 Reputation: Carchar
 * Death

Receive your reward from the Saltcove Queen.
Requires: The Hunger That Breeds 4

High above the Saltcove Queen floats, a creature the size of a kingdom, its thousands of tentacles caressing the Fortress like a lover.

End The Hunger That Breeds

+8 Reputation: Carchar

+1 Hideous Revelation

+1 Dread Machinations

+1 Horrifying Ordeal

+1 Unique Experience: A song from the Saltcove Queen

Sanity to 0

Receive your reward from Atheling, the new Hammerhead Emperor.
Requires: The Hunger That Breeds 5

Shackled carchar-slaves labour at the Fortress gates, building a statue in Atheling's honour.

End The Hunger That Breeds

+1000 G

+1 Gandolan Trout

A Hammerhead Representative
There are some select items which the Hammerheads are keen to purchase from travelers like yourself.