Blavatsky (Outside Straylight)

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Blavatsky is a sanct whose location varies around the Straylight sea. It can move at random times, even with the map screen open. It can also blink totally out of existence, something which it's known to have a habit of doing just as you're trying to travel there. Considering how hefty the Stress and Wound gain can get there, it might be best to take that as a sign.

Be aware that it is very easy to lock yourself out of getting to ever visit Blavatsky more than once.

Sanct description

It looms. Not like a building that's merely tall and sitting there. Not quite like a predator in the dark either, though. It's indifferent, although even there, its indifference is active, a repulsion rather than mere disdain. The many lights inside it glows maroon, but the shapes in its dark walls hardly look like windows.

Interactions

(First visit) You're the only one coming ashore. At first, you get turned around and find yourself walking back to the pier, but the second time around, you make your way to a check-in booth. "All visitors must be examined", says a sign. Getting turned around would presumably mean waiting outside for another ship.

(Further visits, with Blavatsky: Accepted Guilt != 1) You're the only one coming ashore. You know the way to the check-in booth, so you take it, and -- find yourself back on the ship.

(Further visits, with Blavatsky: Accepted Guilt = 1) You have returned to where you belong. You know your way in already. Nothing is unfamiliar in this place.

Action	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Greet marble-faced bureaucrat	Blavatsky: Exploring = 0	You're not sure his face isn't actually marble. Its features do shift as he speaks, but the pattern - you notice something about it, but you're not sure what. "Fill this." He hangs an uneven sheaf of papers and a black pen in hands stretched out toward you. Blavatsky: Exploring = 1
Sit down and do what's asked of you	Blavatsky: Exploring = 1	You look around for a seat. There isn't one. The first three pages of the form repeat one question over and over again: "Have you lived in despair?". You look over to the bureaucrat, who looks icily back to you. Fine. You fill out the form. It asks whether you're human. It asks whether you're a cockroach. It asks whether you're alive. It asks whether it's your life that you're living. It asks whether you can control your future. It asks whether your decisions are being made for you. It asks whether you're dead. It asks whether you can be trusted. It asks whether you trust yourself. It asks whether you can trust yourself. It asks where you were born. It asks where you came from. It asks whether your name describes you. It asks whether your name is about you. It asks whether you have anywhere to return to. It asks whether you ever had a home. You finish filling in the form and pass it to the bureaucrat. He calls you a liar and lets you through. Blavatsky: Exploring = 2, + 5 x Stress
Defy the request	Blavatsky: Exploring = 1	Triggers event: Blavatsky: Punishment	You'll get through, but this can be an expensive choice.