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The '''Affable Factor''' is the manager of Demeaux Island.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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> | The '''Affable Factor''' is the manager of Demeaux Island.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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.fandom.com/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> | ||
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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> | |||
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Revision as of 18:14, 4 May 2024
"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
The name "Demeaux Island" is a pun on "Demo Island," as this island was the first ever added to Sunless Sea.[18]
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