The Last Bell

Anywhere in the sky

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From a chance meeting

Possible rewards: Calming Bell Storm Lantern Old Surveyor's Chart

6 scenes. Choices with a requirement only appear when you meet it.

A Bell in the Calm

Right away1

The wind dies completely. Ahead in the stillness, a ship's bell tolls one slow stroke at a time—and after every ring, a brief gust of wind stirs the air. You pull alongside a patched, forty-year-old weather ship crewed by a single elderly captain ringing the bell left-handed, her right shoulder crippled.

Throw her a towline and tow her ship to port.
"She's headed for the scrapyard," the old captain says, rubbing her injured shoulder. "Forty years as a Guild weather ship, and I'm the last of her crew. Tow me to port and we'll talk about my wind-bell."
→ Towing the Weather Ship
[Surgeon] Have crewmate treat her injured shoulder while you set up the tow.
Crew: Surgeon
crewmate binds her injured shoulder and gives her a pain draught. Grateful, the old captain shares forty years of local weather knowledge, marking every bad-air shoal between here and port.
Reveal 3 waypoints
→ Towing the Weather Ship
Salute her with your own ship's bell and fly on.
She raises her good hand in farewell as a fresh breeze rises behind her stern.
The questline ends here.

Towing the Weather Ship

Right away2

Towing the heavy old hull through dead air is slow work. The old captain rests her good hand on the bell rope.

"Her pantry is still fully stocked for a final season I couldn't finish," she says, "and forty years of daily weather logs sit in the chart room. The ship-breakers will just scrap the whole lot."

Transfer her food stores onto your ship to lighten the tow. (+3 provisions)
Your crew haul across hard cheese, lamp oil, and dried apples—lightening the tow and stocking your galley.
+3 provisions
→ The Scrapyard Slip
Ask her how the ship's bell summons the wind.
"It was cast from mana-crystal slag the year I took command," she says. "Ring it once in dead air or foul weather, and it summons a clean wind. It belongs on a working weather ship—never hanging on a collector's wall."
→ The Scrapyard Slip
[Rigger] Have crewmate rig a balanced towing bridle so the old hull pulls smoothly.
Crew: Rigger
crewmate rigs a balanced bridle from her bow to your stern quarters, stopping the old hull from yawing and earning an approving nod from her captain.
+1 Repair skill XP
→ The Scrapyard Slip

The Scrapyard Slip

At a port3

Tow the old weather ship into port.

At the dock, a ship-breaker taps the old hull's ribs with a mallet and names a scrap price. The old captain ignores him and turns to you.

"Every sailor who ever served aboard her loved the open sky," she says. "I'd rather tow her out and burn her cleanly in open air than let them chop her into scrap planks. Help me give her a proper pyre, and her wind-calling bell is yours."

Nearby on the dock steps, a young woman with chalk on her sleeves stares intently at the old ship.

Tow the old ship clear of the harbor and burn her in open air as the captain asks.
Leaving the cursing ship-breaker behind, you tow the weather ship out into open sky at dusk and set her alight.
→ A Funeral in Open Sky
[Fire mage] Have crewmate ignite a clean, smokeless pyre from keel to masthead.
Crew: Fire caster · Mage
crewmate wraps the old vessel in pure white flame that consumes her cleanly without smoke. The old captain thanks crewmate for a worthy send-off.
−15 mana (the crewmate who acted)+1 Casting skill XP
→ A Funeral in Open Sky
Ask the chalk-sleeved young woman on the dock steps why she's staring at the ship.
Eager to speak up, the young woman hurries down the dock steps two at a time.
→ The Forecaster's Apprentice
Convince the old captain to sell the hull for scrap and split the silver. (+70 silver)
Reluctantly, she accepts the ship-breaker's coin, gives you seventy silver as your share, and walks away carrying the wind-bell under her good arm.
+70 silver
The questline ends here.
Leave it for now.
You leave the decision waiting at the slipway for now.

A Funeral in Open Sky

Right away4

As the last embers fade into the night sky, the old captain tolls the bell one final time. A clean breeze rises out of the calm evening to carry the smoke away, and she holds out the Calm Bell and a pouch of silver to you.

Accept both the Calm Bell device and her thirty-five silver.
You take the thirty-five silver and mount the heavy crystal-slag Calm Bell on your deck—ready to clear foul weather into a fair wind during battle.
Device: Calming Bell+35 silver
The questline ends here.
Accept the Calm Bell, but insist she keep her silver for retirement.
She tucks the coin pouch away gratefully and commends your ship to the Guild harbor clerks, boosting your standing with the Guild.
Device: Calming Bell+1 The Guild standing
The questline ends here.

The Forecaster's Apprentice

Right away5

The sixteen-year-old is a Guild forecaster's apprentice who inspected the old ship's hull frames herself. "Her timber ribs are still sound!" she says. "The Guild weather office hasn't had a working weather ship in six years—if someone delivers her forty years of logbooks to headquarters, they'll recommission her and let me crew her!"

Agree to carry the forty years of weather logbooks to Guild headquarters so the ship can be recommissioned.
The old captain pays you twenty silver for the tow while the eager apprentice boards the weather ship with a caulking iron to begin repairs.
+20 silverNew job: Forty years of weather logs
→ The Guild Weather Office
Remind the captain she said the bell belongs on a working weather ship, and suggest handing command to the apprentice.
The old captain studies the eager apprentice, then hands her the main bell rope. To reward you, she gifts you the ship's smaller spare Calm Bell from the chart room and shares her regional charts.
Device: Calming Bell+1 The Guild standingReveal 3 waypoints
The questline ends here.
Step back and let the old captain decide her ship's fate herself. (+35 silver)
By evening, she and the apprentice tow the old ship out to burn in open sky together; she pays you thirty-five silver for the tow and keeps the bell.
+35 silver
The questline ends here.

The Guild Weather Office

At the delivery port6

Deliver the weather ship's forty-year logs to the Guild weather office.

A senior Guild clerk spreads the forty years of unbroken weather logs across three desks in amazement.

"Forty years without a single missed day!" he exclaims. "We're putting that ship right back on active Guild payroll with the apprentice aboard. We're short on cash, Captain, but we can reward you with seventy-five silver or your choice of masterwork navigation instruments."

Take the Storm Lantern fitting and twenty-five silver.
Hung at your masthead, the copper-caged Storm Lantern protects your ship through hail and thunder, and the clerk adds twenty-five silver.
Fitting: Storm Lantern+25 silver
The questline ends here.
Take the annotated Survey Chart fitting and twenty-five silver.
Annotated by generations of veteran pilots, the Survey Chart reveals the lay of the sky whenever you enter a new region, and comes with twenty-five silver.
Fitting: Old Surveyor's Chart+25 silver
The questline ends here.
Take the full seventy-five-silver cash reward.
He empties seventy-five silver from the office strongbox into a pouch and logs the Guild's formal thanks.
+75 silver+1 The Guild standing
The questline ends here.

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