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<i>Disclaimer: This is an Outside article. There is exactly as much of a game behind what's described here as there are nations behind what's described in other MicrasWiki articles.</i>
<i>Disclaimer: This is an Outside Straylight article. There is exactly as much of a game behind what's described here as there are nations behind what's described in other MicrasWiki articles.</i>
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<b>Vellova</b> is a [[sanct]]. Its location on the map varies over the year between a set of anchor locations in Halberd Strait and the Straylight Sea. It's an available origin option for Academic characters, giving a simple buff of 2 x <span style="color: #181">Scholarship</span>.
<b>Vellova</b> is a [[sanct]]. Its location on the map varies over the year between a set of anchor locations in Halberd Strait and the Straylight Sea. It's an origin option for Academic characters, giving a simple buff of 2 x <span style="color: #181">Scholarship</span>.


=Sanct description=
==Sanct description==


Towers of whale ivory and disdain.
Towers of whale ivory and disdain.
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(characters from here get "Towers of whale ivory and deadlines." as the description instead)
(characters from here get "Towers of whale ivory and deadlines." as the description instead)


=Locations=
==Locations==


==Lecture Halls==
===Lecture Halls===


<i>The public lectures are only for advertisement, but they're still meant to convince just the right people.</i>
<i>The public lectures are only for advertisement, but they're still meant to convince just the right people.</i>
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==Academic Office==
===Academic Office===


<i>Cubicles and copiers.</i>
<i>Cubicles and copiers.</i>
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==Micras Coincidence Control Office==
===Micras Coincidence Control Office===


<i>Men with astonishing beards.</i>
<i>Men with astonishing beards.</i>
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<ul><li><b>They're only rumors</b>
<ul><li><b>They're only rumors</b>
<p>The Professor understands that you understand that not everything you hear about the MCCO is true. They do important work here.
<p>The Professor understands that you understand that not everything you hear about the MCCO is true. Important work is done here. Vitally important.
| Grants access to most MCCO interactions.</li></ul>
| Grants access to most MCCO interactions.</li></ul>
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| Without Orchiid, the MCCO is closed and the dolphins, if they've been delivered, will be released to the wild. Might be an option worth taking if you don't like putting innocent sentient beings in what's a very small box for them.
| Without Orchiid, the MCCO is closed and the dolphins, if they've been delivered, will be released to the wild. Might be an option worth taking if you don't like putting innocent sentient beings in what's a very small box for them.
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[[Category:Outside Straylight]]

Latest revision as of 19:36, 12 May 2020

Disclaimer: This is an Outside Straylight article. There is exactly as much of a game behind what's described here as there are nations behind what's described in other MicrasWiki articles.

Vellova is a sanct. Its location on the map varies over the year between a set of anchor locations in Halberd Strait and the Straylight Sea. It's an origin option for Academic characters, giving a simple buff of 2 x Scholarship.

Sanct description

Towers of whale ivory and disdain.

(characters from here get "Towers of whale ivory and deadlines." as the description instead)

Locations

Lecture Halls

The public lectures are only for advertisement, but they're still meant to convince just the right people.

Action Requirements Effects Notes
Audit a lecture. Any lecture. Not Vellova: That's all they had for now Always: Gain 1 x Vellova: That's all they had for now for a week.
  • Quanta and Quarks

    You learn words that might be useful one day, if you come up with the right order to put them in. Gain 1 x Incomprehensible story.

  • Goods and Services

    You learn how the sanct's owners make money from it. They consider it a matter of principle to be honest about this, it turns out. You, however, gain nothing from it.

  • Robots and Cyborgs

    You learn about the creation of a different sort of life. Gain 1 x Gensym: They're Not Made Of Meat.

  • Something about dolphins...?

    You learn absolutely nothing comprehensible. Gain 1 x Vellova: Impressed by Professor Orchiid.

Academic Office

Cubicles and copiers.

Action Requirements Effects Notes
Correct Wynan's grades
  • Wynan: Not Back To School

Either:

  • Quality: Archivist, or:
  • 1 x Wynan: Insights from a Night Out (always consumed)
  • (success)

    Manipulations

    Not too much better. Just what would have been right in the first place, and what nobody will be too surprised by. Gain 1 x Wynan: Corrected the Record.

  • (failure)

    Gesticulations

    You try to explain to the guard what you're doing there. She doesn't agree. Gain 1 x Disgrace.

You can try again the next night if you fail. They don't really have a police force here.

Micras Coincidence Control Office

Men with astonishing beards.

Action Requirements Effects Notes
Break in and see what they have
  • (success)

    A small haul

    After a fruitless search, you look in the office fridge, and hey, at least there's something there. Gain 2 x Ketamine vial.

  • (failure)

    A small foul

    Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Nobody saw your face. Probably.
Meet Professor Orchiid
  • Vellova: Impressed by Professor Orchiid
  • They're only rumors

    The Professor understands that you understand that not everything you hear about the MCCO is true. Important work is done here. Vitally important.

Grants access to most MCCO interactions.

Take a very relaxed dip Must not have any of:
  • Quality: Claustrophobia, or:
  • Quality: Nyctophobia.

Must have delivered Cerebrated Dolphins to Orchiid.

  • (success?)

    Different Minds

    Even in the tank, you somehow hear the dolphins conversing below you, but they don't make sense, nothing makes sense. Gain 1 x Improbable Insight.

  • (failure?)

    In the K-hole

    You come out of the isolation tank refreshed, if slightly astonished about how easily you forgot that a body is a thing that you have. You are sure the experience will change you forever, which it doesn't. Lose 1 x Stress.

Can be taken once a month. Orchiid will tell you he's worried about ketamine dependence if you try to retry sooner.
Trip with the Professor
  • 2 x LSD Dose (consumed)
  • Tangents and delusions

    It's all so funny. Afterward, you don't remember why it was all so funny. Gain 1 x Incomprehensible Story.
Deliver cerebrated dolphins
  • Cargo: Alphon's Dolphins (consumed)
  • Logistics

    It takes a great intelligence to come up with the idea of putting dolphins in a tank in a city on the sea in the first place.

Take the Professor's frazzled but otherwise good brain
  • Quest: SYNAS's Collection
  • A new state of intelligence

    Orchiid agrees to the place and time, and you are ready. SYNAS's device quietly and efficiently vitrifies his head, while the sea will take the body. He will find what he was looking for, in the end. Gain 1 x Delivery to SYNAS: The last Gentleman-Scientist.

 Without Orchiid, the MCCO is closed and the dolphins, if they've been delivered, will be released to the wild. Might be an option worth taking if you don't like putting innocent sentient beings in what's a very small box for them.
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