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''"We may infer a Station I and a Station II. We may conjecture a Station IV." ''(note: Station IV is [[the Salt Lions]], | ''"We may infer a Station I and a Station II. We may conjecture a Station IV." ''(note: Station IV is [[the Salt Lions]], Station V is [[Grand Geode|the Grand Geode]], and Station VI is [[Aigul]].) | ||
''"Machinery hums behind high steel walls. Up the hill, there are visible outlines of warehouses and a building with a spire. But the lamps are low where they burn at all, and your ship the only one in harbour."'' | ''"Machinery hums behind high steel walls. Up the hill, there are visible outlines of warehouses and a building with a spire. But the lamps are low where they burn at all, and your ship the only one in harbour."'' | ||
Revision as of 20:46, 10 April 2017
"We may infer a Station I and a Station II. We may conjecture a Station IV." (note: Station IV is the Salt Lions, Station V is the Grand Geode, and Station VI is Aigul.)
"Machinery hums behind high steel walls. Up the hill, there are visible outlines of warehouses and a building with a spire. But the lamps are low where they burn at all, and your ship the only one in harbour."
"SUFFERING HEART-ACHE? A SOOTHE & COOPER tonic for the dysphoric, despondent and depressed! Equally good for catarrh. CONVENIENT, SCIENTIFIC, INFALLIBLE!"
Station III is a top-secret facility owned by a company called Soothe and Cooper. It apparently needs a constant supply of dead bodies to run, specifically the bodies of those who had taken Soothe and Cooper's Heartease Tonic and were killed permanently after overdosing due to a buildup of heartmetal - exactly what it sounds like. (This is why Soothe and Cooper Long-Boxes, aka coffins, are occasionally found in London and around the Unterzee.) It's not the bodies themselves that are needed, but rather the metal that has built up inside of them, and which is smelted down to be used again in more bottles of Heartease Tonic.
By the way, Heartmetal occupies the same legal status as Gaoler's Honey - law-abiding citizens rarely, if ever, speak of it. It's very contraband. Don't smuggle it.
