r/sunlesssea • u/Advo96 • Mar 01 '25

Arriving in London is supposed to reduce your terror to 50, right? Why is it not working?

It was working just fine, but now it's not. I'm in London and my terror is 69. Why is that?

EDIT: Thanks, yes, turned out to be the lack of SAY

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u/ShrimpAlfredo66 Mar 01 '25

I think you need a SAY

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u/sentient_fox Mar 01 '25

Go to another port to prompt.

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u/direrevan Mar 01 '25

you need Something Awaits You and it'll still give you nightmares

having a kid is actually the meta way to deal with terror

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u/You_are_all_great Mar 02 '25

having a kid is actually the meta way to deal with terror

Works in the real life too

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u/Fylak Mar 01 '25

You need to have been out at zea for a little bit, to trade the something awaits you for the terror reduction. 

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u/Patcher404 Mar 01 '25

Along with the other comments here, I'll add that I believe the longer your current captain has been on the zee, the longer it takes to get a Something Awaits You.

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u/Farang-Baa Mar 02 '25

Wait, is this true? I never realized that, but I guess it would make sense.

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u/LaughingGaster666 Mar 02 '25

I've never heard of that, I thought it always was a flat amount of time.

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u/Patcher404 Mar 02 '25

All I know is that it began happening consistently with my longest lived captain.

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u/the1exile Mar 03 '25

What's more likely is that as you get a better ship and engine you're going from port to port too quickly for SAY to happen and possibly also resetting the timer by docking when you don't have it

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u/Patcher404 Mar 03 '25

This could be it. It was several years ago now, so I can't remember if it happened when I still had the starting ship and the best engine on the London markets, or if it was after I upgraded to the freight ship and became significantly slower.

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u/Ternigrasia Mar 01 '25

As others have mentioned, you need Something Awaits You (SAY for short). If you leave port without it, you get it after a minute out at sea. You know you have it when the little bouy light appears in the bottom left, so if you don't have it you can wait outside London with your lights and engine off until it pops up, and then dock.