Sunless Sea - The Pirate-Poet For Polythreme v.2.02 - Game mod - Download

The Pirate-Poet For Polythreme is a mod for Sunless Sea, created by Dratoran.

Description (in author’s own words):

Basically all mods I've seen in the limited modding community of Sunless Sea are rather small. Some events, shops or specific game mechanics are tweaked a little, but all in all the mods neither make big changes nor add new story content. However, the following mod does both of these things!

Features

'The Pirate-Poet For Polythreme' adds a very long quest line based on the Pirate-Poet to the game (who would've guessed, right?), which consist of three big parts:

1. The first part is an expansion of what is already in the game. Instead of simply sinking the Pirate-Poet's boat, you now get the chance to save her and her crew from drowning and bring them to Gaider's Mourn yourself. Every trip to the Mourn contains several events, which tell the story of the interactions between the pirates and your own crew.

2. After a few of these encounters you'll receive the possibility to recruit the Pirate-Poet as a first officer. Attention: She's the only officer in the game, who increases pages for secrets! I thought this would be fitting for a poet and after testing it myself I can safely say that this is definitely not a game breaker.

As your officer the Pirate-Poet has her own stories and quests. She will need your help to deal with a rather personal matter and to continue her fight against the tyranny of Polythreme's king. Will the putsch succeed with your support?

3. If it does, the third part of the quest line starts: Reforming Polythreme to create a modern nation, which is able to defend itself against its neighbors. This also means new shops, a new drydock to repair your ship, your own chamber for the night in the palace and a Survey Office similar to that of London (port reports and strategic information included).

You will need to increase the economic, diplomatic and military strength of Polythreme additional to your search for allies or Polythreme might be destroyed in the upcoming conflict with the Khanate. Your actions decide about defeat or victory and if you fulfill the secret condition, you will even receive a legacy item.

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All the while you have the option to start a romance with the Pirate-Poet and this one is actually intended to feel like one, instead of the single tryst-event you usually get with the other romance options. A chain of ten events describe your romantic time with your favorite officer, but beware: If you continue this story while having a sweetheart in London one of them will make you choose sooner or later – and this time for real.

If everything went right, you might get the option to retire on Polythreme together with the Pirate-Poet. Nevertheless, there are many dangers during the quest line: You might lose the Pirate-Poet, Polythreme might get occupied or destroyed by the Khanate (don't worry: Polythreme's quests are changed accordingly so that most of them will still work afterwards) and there is even the possibility of death (but its a small one and you will be warned beforehand).

What happens with the Merciless Modiste, you might ask at this point? Don't worry: Her quest line was changed to fit together with the one of the Pirate-Poet. In the end, you'll probably need to choose, but that doesn't have to be bad, because this mod actually allows you to imprison the Merciless Modiste an keep her as a mascot on your ship (yeah, I never really liked her).

The language

You've probably noticed that I'm not a native English speaker. My English isn't horrible, but it isn't perfect either. The writing for this mod reflects this, which means that you will probably encounter a big amount of mistakes – mistakes I'm unable to recognize on my own. The mod contains several .odt-files with the complete text I wrote for this mod. If you like my work and are a native English speaker, please consider to help me with correcting the text so I might replace it.

If you do so however you need to keep some things in mind:

Please make your changes visible, because I won't change anything without reviewing it beforehand.

Please refrain from rewriting things, because you don't like my writing style. I'm not an author and English isn't my native language, but it is still my story and I want to tell it in my own words. However, you might offer suggestions, if you want to.

You will find things like \r\n\r\n or \" in the text. This is necessary for the layout in the game. Please don't change them.

Some parts are original text from the original game. Since I wrote it as a continuous story, it was easier to copy some things that were already in the game to prevent gaps. Not all of these parts are marked accordingly. If they are, however, you'll find a legend at the beginning of the specific .odt.

Some passages are used more than once, but might be changed a little to fit the specific context. Therefore I would like to beg you to still read this duplicates too and not to skip them.

You might encounter german commentary. Just ignore these ramblings of mine.

Influence on other quests

Like I hinted before: I tried to minimize the number of quests affected through my mod, but in some instance this was impossible. Quests affected are mainly those in Polythreme.

The option to obtain a Wakeful Idol will become permanently unavailable at the end of act 2 of the quest line – no matter what you do. The Idol is necessary to finish the quest of the Principle of Corals in Port Cecil. If you want to do this, you should obtain your specimen as soon as possible.

The quest 'Clay Men marked for London' will become unavailable, if the putsch in act 2 succeeds, but there will be an alternative starting in London. However, if Polythreme gets destroyed at the end of act 3 this new option will vanish too. One clay man marked for London is necessary to finish the quest line of the Tireless Mechanic.

Polythreme's Port-Report becomes unavailable too, but this isn't really that severe.

The quest 'Warn some merchants about Wrack' has no effect, if Polythreme is destroyed, since you won't find any merchants to warn.

The Tomb-Colonist Quest for Polythreme and every other quest there was altered to continue working no matter in which state the island is.

Bugs

I spent hours and hours testing this mod and I can say: There are many ways to finish it without breaking the game. Nevertheless, I didn't test every possible interaction the mod offers and even small mistakes (a wrong number, a missing requirement, etc.) might lead to a game breaking bug. I can't guarantee that this won't happen, but I'm very very certain that – if worst comes to worst – we should be still able to save your game with only small changes, if you explain your problem to me.

If everything fails uninstalling the mod will almost certainly solve your problem (see section 'Uninstalling'). Nevertheless, a backup off your savegame doesn't hurt either way.

If you encounter a bug – and this includes small things like a misplaced quest text or something like this – please tell me about it. This kind of feedback is the only way for this mod to become better.

Mod conflicts

'The Pirate-Poet For Polythreme' will conflict with any other mod that changes Polythreme, the quest line of the Merciless Modiste, the encounters with the Pirate-Poet or the defeat events of the Alcaeus-class vessel and the War Trimaran of the Khanate.

Uninstalling

Qualities once added to a savegame can't be easily extracted, which means that deleting the qualities.json will prevent the game from loading. However, that isn't really a problem. Newly added qualities won't have an effect on the game, if you delete the other json files of the mod.

The only qualities still affecting the game are those, that were already used in the unmoded game. Deleting the mod won't change their values back to their pre-mod state, which means that the particular quest lines that uses these qualities (namely those of the Merciless Modiste and the Pirate-Poet) might become unavailable.

Installation

Go to the game folder in your AppData. The path is usually 'C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\LocalLow\Failbetter Games\Sunless Sea\'. Place the files in the folders 'addon' and 'images' in their equally named counterparts.

• Last update: Sunday, May 17, 2020
• Genre: RPG
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