Byssus

Byssus is a city in the Empire of Thread.

Description
''The air shimmers with heat. The Imperatrix's Palace looms at the city's heart, a tower of witchglass and fused bone, topped by the hideous skull of some slaughtered deity.''

''The Dancing God stands shackled to the great tower, and almost as tall. It capers madly in chains, blasts of fire keeping its lumpen feet from standing still.''

Rest and recover.
Requires: Sanity damage

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

-50 G

+Sanity

Repair your hull.
Requires: Hull damage

''Danglehands hang from the distant ceiling: severed hands at the end of long lengths of Thread. They glide silently about your kinetopede, hammering and welding.''

-# G

Hull to max

Gather news.
Requires: 0 Current Affairs: Byssus

''You are not Threaded, and therefore a second-class citizen. You will need to observe the correct rituals of obeisance before anyone talks to you.''

+1 Current Affairs: Byssus

Wander the streets.
Once per visit

Flashes brighten the city every few minutes, accompanied by a renewed roar of pain from the Dancing God.

Possible results:
 * +1 Disquieting Incident
 * -100 G,

During your stay at Byssus, a dream consumes you...
Requires: 0 Concerns

Options:
 * Dreams of the Dancing God 1, +Sanity
 * -Sanity, +1 Breathtaking Spectacle

Tell the Imperatrix about your dream of the Dancing God.
Requires: Dreams of the Dancing God 1

You have to fill in a lot of cryptic paperwork in front of very dismissive bureaucrats before you're allowed in her presence.

Dreams of the Dancing God 2

The Dancing God comes to you in another dream.
Requires: Dreams of the Dancing God 1 or 2, 1 Lockbox of Butchered Souls

You show him the rattling lockbox.

Dreams of the Dancing God 3

The Dancing God is missing from the city's horizon.
Requires: Dreams of the Dancing God 4

Did he successfully escape?

+1 Reflection on Mortality

+1 Undreamt Treasure

+1 Dread Machinations

+1 Occult Relic

+80 Apprehensions

End Dreams of the Dancing God

Take Spire through the city.
Requires: Spire on board, Third Eye 2

Options:
 * +1 Droll Recollection
 * +1 Moment of Melancholy
 * End Third Eye, +1 Lurid Tale, +1 Horrifying Ordeal, -Spire

Hall of Wonders
''Boasts the best of the Empire's marvels, innovations, triumphs. And always on the lookout for more.''

Rational Man's Marketplace
''Even an unthreaded foreigner such as yourself is able to trade here. But only under close supervision and at unfavourable rates.''