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|title1 = Demeaux Island | |title1 = Demeaux Island | ||
|image1 = Demeaux.png | |image1 = Demeaux.png | ||
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|location = Demeaux's Gate | |location = [[The Unterzee|Demeaux's Gate]] | ||
|allegiance = [[Mr Iron]] | |allegiance = [[Mr Iron]] | ||
|notable_inhabitants = The Affable Factor | |notable_inhabitants = The Affable Factor | ||
|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/sultry Sultry] | |music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/sultry Sultry] | ||
}}''" | |port=Iron & Misery Company Funging Station}} | ||
<blockquote>''"I & M has a funger operation here, felling giant bolegus shrooms for building materials, harvesting kirralee for its 'medicinal' properties. It's a desperate little outpost of something like civilisation."''</blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>''"Oh hello, Captain! Thank God for visitors. We'd go quite mad out here otherwise, ahahaha. Quite mad. How can we be of assistance?"''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Location_description|Location description|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote> | |||
'''Demeaux Island''' is an island in the [[Unterzee]] covered by an overgrown jungle of mushrooms.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Port_description|Port description|Sunless Sea}} ''"A fervid forest of fungus."''</ref> The [[Iron & Misery Company]] have an operation here to harvest the massive fungi for various purposes: '''giant bolegus''' mushrooms are used as building materials, while '''kirralee''' fungi are a form of medicine.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Location_description|Location description|Sunless Sea}} ''"I & M has a funger operation here, felling giant bolegus shrooms for building materials, harvesting kirralee for its 'medicinal' properties."''</ref> The island also has a population of [[blemmigans]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Put a blemmigan ashore|Sunless Sea}} ''"[...] a whistling rises in response. There are already blemmigans here."''</ref> | |||
Demeaux Island employs contractors who work miserable and monotonous jobs.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Search for the Last Constable|Sunless Sea}} ''"You join the fungers at their tables, [...] The same faces turn up [...] to hear about your zee-adventures. One weepy funger [...] fights for his composure. "Thank you, [...] You're the only thing that eases the monotony," [...]"''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Accept a volunteer|Sunless Sea}} ''"One of Company's bolegus-fellers has negotiated an early release from her contract."''</ref> The workers subsist only on mushrooms,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Provide a respite from mushrooms|Sunless Sea}} ''"Here, it's mushrooms for every meal."''</ref> and eating too much can ''turn'' someone into one,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Tea with the Factor|Sunless Sea}} ''"He also has a load of bolegus-frond [...] “I have eaten so much of the stuff I fear that I might be transformed entirely into fungus.” [...] “It happens, you know. But one does have to eat rather a lot of it first.”"''</ref> heralded by "sproutlings" appearing in their eyes and hair.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Accept a volunteer|Sunless Sea}} ''"“It's the sproutlings,” she tells you, her face pleading. “I keep picking them out of me porridge. And me hair. And me eyes. Take me away."''</ref> The fungi here can be dangerous in other ways too: they can be poisonous, hallucinogenic, or trigger intense anxiety when consumed.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Gather supplies|Sunless Sea}} ''"Some of the island's fungus is good to eat. Some is poisonous, hallucinogenic or mischievous. [...] One crewman begins to whimper. [...] “They've reached my heart. I think I'll be harvest yet. Harvest yet!” You have to drag him back to the ship before he's calm again."''</ref> To cope with the environment, the fungers occasionally set up blemmigan fighting-pits for "entertainment."<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Search for the Last Constable|Sunless Sea}} ''"You share your zee-stories with the fungers [...] a small group invites you to 'an entertainment.' [...] two kneel around a pit, prodding blemmigans with sticks. [...] "I think we're ready to open our fights to the rest," says one of the kneeling men."''</ref> | |||
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''"Pray, | The '''Affable Factor''' is the manager of Demeaux Island.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Location_description|Location description|Sunless Sea}} ''"Up puffs the Affable Factor. “Oh hello, Captain! [...] How can we be of assistance?”"''</ref> He works for [[Mr Iron]] ''and'' the [[Admiralty]], both of whom are suspicious of each other,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Give the pass-sign to the Affable Factor|Sunless Sea}} ''"The Admirality asked you to bring back Strategic Information. This is your contact. [...] “Here. Little to report, [...] the Company grows suspicious. Mr Iron knows the Admiralty is interested in his business. Pray, [...] you never have to serve two masters, as I do.”"''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Compile a Port Report|Sunless Sea}} ''"The Admiralty likes to keep an eye on Iron & Misery's activities."''</ref> and his dreary surroundings and lack of contact with his family cause him no shortage of stress.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Give the pass-sign to the Affable Factor|Sunless Sea}} ''""Yes - yes, I have it here. [...] Tell the Admiralty - tell them I miss my children. Tell them I can't take it here much longer. The spores, the dark.""''</ref> He is the brother of [[Lorenzo]] of the [[Seven Against Nidah]], though he does not think highly of his revolutionary ideals.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Deliver Lorenzo's remains to the Factor|Sunless Sea}} ''"The Affable Factor receives his brother's coffin solemnly. [...] "Can't say it was how he'd have wanted to go, but I don't thinkhe ever intended to go at all." [...] "Knew he'd meet a bad end with that lot. Too much stirring up trouble, not enough enjoying what they'd got. Seven is an unlucky Number [...]"''</ref> He also knew the [[Irrepressible Cannoneer]] in the "old days," but he would prefer to keep his past activities undisclosed.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Demeaux_Island#Interactions|Bargain with the Factor for a secret|Sunless Sea}} ''"[...] it seems the Cannoneer knew him 'in the old days', and he's even more reluctant to have the Cannoneer talk about the old days. [...] That's all I know. Now - shall we let the past lie where it fell?""''</ref> | ||
== Development == | |||
The name "Demeaux Island" is a pun on "Demo Island," as this island was the first ever added to ''Sunless Sea''.<ref>{{Citation|https://twitter.com/alexiskennedy/status/902108111305134080|@alexiskennedy|Twitter}} ''"just confessed to @tronbevan: Demeaux Island in Sunless Sea is named because it was the first we put in 'Demo Island' she's not impressed"''</ref> | |||
== References == | == References== | ||
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[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
[[Category:The Unterzee]] | [[Category:The Unterzee]] | ||
[[Category:The Neath]] | [[Category:The Neath]] | ||
[[Category:Minipage]] | |||
Latest revision as of 20:44, 5 February 2025
"I & M has a funger operation here, felling giant bolegus shrooms for building materials, harvesting kirralee for its 'medicinal' properties. It's a desperate little outpost of something like civilisation."
"Oh hello, Captain! Thank God for visitors. We'd go quite mad out here otherwise, ahahaha. Quite mad. How can we be of assistance?"[1]
Demeaux Island is an island in the Unterzee covered by an overgrown jungle of mushrooms.[2] The Iron & Misery Company have an operation here to harvest the massive fungi for various purposes: giant bolegus mushrooms are used as building materials, while kirralee fungi are a form of medicine.[3] The island also has a population of blemmigans.[4]
Demeaux Island employs contractors who work miserable and monotonous jobs.[5][6] The workers subsist only on mushrooms,[7] and eating too much can turn someone into one,[8] heralded by "sproutlings" appearing in their eyes and hair.[9] The fungi here can be dangerous in other ways too: they can be poisonous, hallucinogenic, or trigger intense anxiety when consumed.[10] To cope with the environment, the fungers occasionally set up blemmigan fighting-pits for "entertainment."[11]
The Affable Factor is the manager of Demeaux Island.[12] He works for Mr Iron and the Admiralty, both of whom are suspicious of each other,[13][14] and his dreary surroundings and lack of contact with his family cause him no shortage of stress.[15] He is the brother of Lorenzo of the Seven Against Nidah, though he does not think highly of his revolutionary ideals.[16] He also knew the Irrepressible Cannoneer in the "old days," but he would prefer to keep his past activities undisclosed.[17]
Development[edit]
The name "Demeaux Island" is a pun on "Demo Island," as this island was the first ever added to Sunless Sea.[18]
References[edit]
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