What I Wrote For Yuletide: The Virulent

Here's the basics, as I put them on AO3:

Title: The Virulent (34892 words)
Fandom: Sunless Sea
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Zee Captain, The Carnelian Exile, Maybe's Daughter, The Quiet Deviless, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Choose Your Own Adventure, Possible Character Death, Epistolary, Canon-Typical Horror

Summary: The Virulent leaves the docks of London with a new captain at its helm: a woman seeking fame, fortune, and adventure on the Unterzee. The zee will always provide opportunities, but not every captain knows how to navigate between the shoals of caution and ambition to find what she seeks.

There's also a transcript version, covering three expeditions, if you want to read a version of the story without having to flip between chapters and make choices.

If you haven't played Sunless Sea, but have ever played Fallen London (aka Echo Bazaar), you know enough to be able to easily read/play this story. If you've never played Fallen London, then what you need to know to understand the story is: London was stolen by bats to a vast underground location, some years ago, because of a deal with devils. And now people set out from London to sail the vast underground ocean in rickety steamers, conducting trade with the many strange ports on the islands out there.

That all said! If you're curious, here is my ramble about the process of writing it.

( On writing! )