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<blockquote>''"The Guests were stuffed into the locomotive like the meat in a sausage. Most of its contents have been ground to powder or paste. Only the crew's keepsakes – no matter how fragile – have been spared. Did the Guests take care of them?"''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies. | <blockquote>''"The Guests were stuffed into the locomotive like the meat in a sausage. Most of its contents have been ground to powder or paste. Only the crew's keepsakes – no matter how fragile – have been spared. Did the Guests take care of them?"''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guests|Search the wreckage for valuables|Sunless Skies|}}</ref></blockquote>The '''Guests''' are a species of slug-like organism attracted to the feelings of warmth,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Guests_in_the_Engine_Room|Sabotage the engines|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> companionship, and sentimentality,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Guests_in_the_Cabins|Make the crew cast out their keepsakes|Sunless Skies|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Guests_in_the_Galley|Impose a curfew on the crew|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> which causes them to often appear inside of sky-farers' trains.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guests|The Guests|Sunless Skies|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Deal_with_your_Unwanted_Guests|Deal with your Unwanted Guests|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> They are not very dangerous on their own but even a single Guest will quickly attract many more of its kind; if left unchecked, the Guest population of an infested train can eventually grow large enough to overpower and kill its human crew.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guests|Trap and collect some of the Guests|Sunless Skies|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guests|Search the wreckage for valuables|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
These actions make the Guests one of most despised and feared creatures in [[the High Wilderness]]; in fact, entire teams of volunteers willing to rid the visiting trains of Guests can be found at every major port.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies. | These actions make the Guests one of most despised and feared creatures in [[the High Wilderness]]; in fact, entire teams of volunteers willing to rid the visiting trains of Guests can be found at every major port.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Deal_with_your_Unwanted_Guests|Deal with your Unwanted Guests|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
The Guests are also known to exude a variety of noxious fluids, some of which can prove very dangerous under high pressure. Some enterprising skyfarers have taken advantage of this ability to create Guest-powered weaponry, however.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies. | The Guests are also known to exude a variety of noxious fluids, some of which can prove very dangerous under high pressure. Some enterprising skyfarers have taken advantage of this ability to create Guest-powered weaponry, however.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guests|Create the 'Uninvited'|Sunless Skies|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_%27Uninvited%27|The 'Uninvited'|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
The Guests seem to highly revere [[Gods of the High Wilderness#The Waste-Waif|the Waste-Waif]], a god of the sky's abandoned places; one of the best ways of dealing with an infestation lies in building a shrine to said god, as the Guests will consider such a train as a sanctified ground and leave it alone.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies. | The Guests seem to highly revere [[Gods of the High Wilderness#The Waste-Waif|the Waste-Waif]], a god of the sky's abandoned places; one of the best ways of dealing with an infestation lies in building a shrine to said god, as the Guests will consider such a train as a sanctified ground and leave it alone.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guests|Continue your bombardment|Sunless Skies|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Guests_in_the_Galley|Construct a shrine to the Waste-Waif|Sunless Skies|}}</ref><gallery widths="130"> | ||
Uninvited square icon.png|The Guests's gunge, used in The 'Uninvited'. | Uninvited square icon.png|The Guests's gunge, used in The 'Uninvited'. | ||
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