The Grand Geode
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"A naval base, with the Royal Navy's emblems, curiously amended. Efficient, bright-eyed women and men work briskly, everywhere you look. They are singing: hymns with unfamiliar words. Hard-faced Royal Marines watch you carefully, barring entry to the Geode's heart."[1]
The Grand Geode, located to the very south of London, is, de jure, one of the eight known stations maintained by the Admiralty, and in this regard is sometimes referred to as Station V. In practice, however, it headquarters the New Sequence: a large fraction of the Navy who, openly or in secret, now serve another master.[2]
Station V...?
"A plaque by the docks has been defaced with orange paint, but you can still make out the original inscription: 'STATION V (ADJUNCT)'."[1]
Overseen by one of the Navy's Commodores[3], the Grand Geode is officially the Admiralty's Station V--or part of it, at least. However, it operates, like a good chunk of the bright-eyed Navy, mostly independently. Conversation about the purpose of the installation is casually deflected.
In fact, the Geode seems to opposes the influence of the Admiralty and of the Echo Bazaar.[4] As a renegade faction, the Geode poses a degree of threat to London even if their means are not necessarily violent. The latter party, therefore, is very weary of the Grand Geode, with the subject seeming to make Admiralty officials visibly nervous.[5]
That Hypnotic Dawn
"You find yourself nodding, and then jerk suddenly awake. The Commodore is smiling. Your cup is empty. You feel well: very well. A little euphoric, even. 'Come back soon,' he says softly."[3]
Memory seems to be fuzzy amidst the magnificence of the reflected dawn, especially when one takes tea with the Commodore.[3] In keeping with the expansionist nature of New Sequence and the mind-altering light of the Dawn Machine, the Geode works to secure new members--or rather, the Machine's light draws people in.[6] It even goes so far as to accept, in some cases, 'willing' recruits in lieu of payment.[7]
There is no doubt that the Dawn Machine's light and influence enables the Grand Geode to wield strange and mysterious abilities--and not only those pertaining to the matter of recollection.[8] In any case, one should not quite expect to remember every detail about their stay at Zelo's Town.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Grand Geode, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Sell the Memento Mori to the servants of the Dawn Machine, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ask to speak with someone in authority, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Deliver the Sphinxstone, Sunless Sea "The Bazaar is the enemy of our Light. [...] Well, our Light will sort it out, you'll see."
- ↑ Grand Geode, Sunless Sea "The Admiralty official takes notes scrupulously, but with an expression of mild terror, like a novice vivisector wincing with a scalpel. The rest of the office studiously busy themselves with other tasks."
- ↑ Ask to speak with someone in authority, Sunless Sea "Teasing clues linger in your memory. A zailor asked to stay behind, and you permitted it, because - because - "
- ↑ Purchase an Element of Dawn from the Commodore, Sunless Sea "No no - your seven youths and maidens, ahahaha, I mean your seven crew, are not 'expenses'. They will live rich, satisfied, glorious lives."
- ↑ Ask the Commodore for a defence against sunlight for Aestival, Sunless Sea "The skull which once adorned the Eater of Names now lies within, its forehead marked with a glyph of furious power. [...] This will drink the danger of the sunlight."
