Editing The Tireless Mechanic

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}}<blockquote>''"Afternoon. Ready to offer my services. I'm an engineer. Finest you'll ever hire. Treat engines like my own children. Not that I have children. Too busy. Usually busy."''<ref name = "hire mechanic">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_New_Recruit|Engage an Officer: The Tireless Mechanic|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>''"Does he ever sleep? His eyes are dark-circled, but his hands are steady."''<ref name = "char desc">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic#Character_description|Character description|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>

The '''Tireless Mechanic''' is a talkative and somewhat scatterbrained engineer.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/A_New_Recruit|Engage an Officer: the Tireless Mechanic|Sunless Sea}} ''"I'm an engineer. Finest you'll ever hire. Treat engines like my own children. Not that I have children. Too busy. Usually busy."''</ref> He does not sleep and takes a draught to compensate, which lets him retain his faculties<ref name="invite dine">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic#Speak_to_the_Tireless_Mechanic|Invite him to dine with you|Sunless Sea}}''"There's a draught I take nightly, to substitute for sleep. It works well enough, and it keeps me sane and upright, [...]"''</ref> but does not prevent him from perpetually having dark-circled eyes.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic|Tireless Mechanic|Sunless Sea}} ''"Does he ever sleep? His eyes are dark-circled, [...]"''</ref> To stave off sleep, he eats simple meals and refuses wine.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic|Invite him to dine with you|Sunless Sea}} ''"His tastes are spartan - he eats little, drinks only water, barely sleeps at all [...] "Thanks for the meal. [...] No, no wine. It makes me sleepy. Oh, yes, I can sleep! Too easily - that's the problem.""''</ref>

The Mechanic's passion for engines once led him to dream of them, and then of the [[Stone Pigs]] - the engine-creatures that allow the [[Bazaar]] to travel the [[High Wilderness]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic|Ask the Mechanic to explain exactly what the hell is going on|Sunless Sea}} ''""I talk about engines. All the time. [...] And I dream about them. I found myself dreaming of the Stone Pigs. They're, oh, I don't entirely understand, still. But they're how the Bazaar travels between stars. [...] And they sleep, so the Fingerkings can crack their dreams open. So the Fingerkings recruited me.""''</ref> The Pigs sleep for now, but the [[Fingerkings]] can breach their dreams. They recruited the Mechanic to steal a secret from the Pigs' dreams:<ref name=":0" /> the design<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Mechanic%27s_Secret|The Mechanic's Secret|Sunless Sea}} ''"This is the design he stored in Frostfound."''</ref> for an engine unlike any other.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic|Ask the Mechanic to explain exactly what the hell is going on|Sunless Sea}} ''"I found a secret in those dreams. An engine like the zee's never seen."''</ref> The fascinated Mechanic stole the secret for himself rather than giving it to the Fingerkings as they asked,<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic|Ask the Mechanic to explain exactly what the hell is going on|Sunless Sea}} ''"I stole a secret from the Echo Bazaar. With the help of the Fingerkings. You know, the serpents who rule dream. Then I reneged on the Fingerkings. [...] Would you rather I'd given them the secret?"''</ref> and stashed the secret in [[Frostfound]] where the Fingerkings could not follow.<ref name=":2">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Objective:_The_Mechanic%27s_Secret_in_Frostfound|Objective: The Mechanic's Secret in Frostfound|Sunless Sea}} ''"I had to hide the secret somewhere the Fingerkings couldn't go. I hoped they'd leave me alone then. So I put it in Frostfound. [...] quite close to the heart."''</ref> Enraged at his deception,<ref name=":1" /> the Fingerkings will hunt him down the moment he sleeps and enters [[Parabola]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Hunter%27s_Keep|Excavate the cellar|Sunless Sea}} ''""The Writhing River flows near here," the Mechanic remarks. "One of the tributaries of dream. My enemies find me when I sleep [...]"''</ref>

The Mechanic wants to defeat his serpentine pursuers so that he may sleep again.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic|Invite him to dine with you|Sunless Sea}} ''"[...] I wish I could enjoy just one night's sleep. If you could help me..."''</ref> He also hopes to reacquire his secret<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tireless_Mechanic|Tireless Mechanic|Sunless Sea}} ''"Oh, captain, captain, let me build it for you. You won't be sorry! [...] Find Frostfound, in the north, and retrieve the Mechanic's secret from the penultimate chamber."''</ref> and use it to build an engine called the '''Fulgent Impeller''',<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Kingeater%27s_Castle#Interactions|Construct the Fulgent Impeller|Sunless Sea}} ''"My work is done. Thank you. Thank you!"''</ref> which runs on the same forces that propel the Bazaar.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Fulgent_Impeller|The Fulgent Impeller|Sunless Sea}} ''"'These are the forces that drive the Bazaar.' The Impeller runs very, very hot."''</ref> The Impeller also requires a "heart" to function,<ref name = "heart">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Kingeater%27s_Castle#Interactions|Construct the Fulgent Impeller|Sunless Sea}} ''""Almost ready," he affirms. "It just needs a spark, and a heart." He looks to the Unsettling Sage. "Yes, I know," the Sage says, a little sadly."''</ref> so the Mechanic has contracted a humanoid [[Rubbery Man]] called the '''Unsettling Sage'''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Unsettling_Sage|Invite the Unsettling Sage to dinner|Sunless Sea}} ''"His tastes are piscine in the extreme. [...] "I am aacustomed," he admits frankly, "to be being used aas a tool. [...] My people maade me aas a repository of secrets. It will be a relief, when that ends. But until then, I shaall keep the secrets a little longer." [...] He hands you a little nodule of deep amber."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/That_Which_Has_Taken_a_Name|That Which Has Taken a Name|Fallen London}} ''"A black stone thing made of spikes floats near the surface. [...] "I hate it here," says the grey-skinned man, to nobody in particular. A thrown pebble bounces off the spiked stone thing. "I have no secrets to take.""''</ref> to act as a willing subject when the time comes.<ref name = "heart"/>