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|location = Penstock's Land Agency, [[The Echo Bazaar]] | |location = Penstock's Land Agency, [[The Echo Bazaar]] | ||
|allegiance = [[The Echo Bazaar]]}}<blockquote>''"He stoops like a clerk and coughs like a miner. But that frock-coat is of the finest fabric and the newest cut. “My name is Penstock,” he says."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Fallen_London#Interactions|A dusty gentleman|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>'''Penstock''' manages Penstock’s Land Agency, a modest office situated on the eastern flank of the [[Bazaar]].<ref>[https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Visit_to_the_Bazaar#Interactions Go with her, ''Fallen London''] ''"Penstock's Land Agency: a modest office in an immodest location, hard against the eastern flank of the Bazaar - that spired fortress of commerce that towers over London. Penstock stoops like a clerk and coughs like a miner, but his eyes are very wise."''</ref> Officially, he inspects, purchases, and sells property.<ref>[https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Memoirs:_Quality_of_Lodgings#Usage Sell your Mansion, Sunless Sea] ''Penstock, the land agent, looks over the Mansion with a gloomy eye. “Roof's going,” he suggests. “But it's a good size, I suppose.”''</ref> But beneath the Agency lies the '''Sundered Sea''': the vast reservoir that serves as the Bazaar’s [[lacre]]-vats.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Sundered_Sea|A Sundered Sea|Fallen London|}}''"Sigils beat in the ceiling of these caverns [...] the lacre spuming below takes the red light and returns it, somehow, as purest white. Distance is difficult to judge, but this space would handily absorb a cathedral or two. It's a second sea, but a divided one. The lacre foams in cells and pits [...]"''</ref> Access to this hidden expanse is granted only through '''Penstock’s Wicket''', an entrance guarded by Penstock himself, leading to the depths below via a ramshackle elevator.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Pass_the_Wicket_and_descend|Pass the Wicket and descend|Fallen London|}}''"'Downstairs' is a redly lit grotto hollowed from the carapace of the Bazaar. A heavily chained cage-lift awaits you at the back. Penstock unlocks it: his hands are trembling."''</ref> | |allegiance = [[The Echo Bazaar]]}}<blockquote>''"He stoops like a clerk and coughs like a miner. But that frock-coat is of the finest fabric and the newest cut. “My name is Penstock,” he says."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Fallen_London#Interactions|A dusty gentleman|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>'''Penstock''' manages Penstock’s Land Agency, a modest office situated on the eastern flank of the [[Bazaar]].<ref>[https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Visit_to_the_Bazaar#Interactions Go with her, ''Fallen London''] ''"Penstock's Land Agency: a modest office in an immodest location, hard against the eastern flank of the Bazaar - that spired fortress of commerce that towers over London. Penstock stoops like a clerk and coughs like a miner, but his eyes are very wise."''</ref> Officially, he inspects, purchases, and sells property.<ref>[https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Memoirs:_Quality_of_Lodgings#Usage Sell your Mansion, Sunless Sea] ''Penstock, the land agent, looks over the Mansion with a gloomy eye. “Roof's going,” he suggests. “But it's a good size, I suppose.”''</ref> But beneath the Agency lies the '''Sundered Sea''': the vast reservoir that serves as the Bazaar’s [[lacre]]-vats.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Sundered_Sea|A Sundered Sea|Fallen London|}}''"Sigils beat in the ceiling of these caverns [...] the lacre spuming below takes the red light and returns it, somehow, as purest white. Distance is difficult to judge, but this space would handily absorb a cathedral or two. It's a second sea, but a divided one. The lacre foams in cells and pits [...]"''</ref> Access to this hidden expanse is granted only through '''Penstock’s Wicket''', an entrance guarded by Penstock himself, leading to the depths below via a ramshackle elevator.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Pass_the_Wicket_and_descend|Pass the Wicket and descend|Fallen London|}}''"'Downstairs' is a redly lit grotto hollowed from the carapace of the Bazaar. A heavily chained cage-lift awaits you at the back. Penstock unlocks it: his hands are trembling."''</ref> | ||
