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{{name|caps}} is a rare cache that can be found in the {{favilink|Palladium Reef}}. Walking over a {{favilink|palladium strut with coral growth}} will pluck the polyp on the strut, which has a 1 in 500 chance of revealing a {{favilink|swollen bulb}} containing 1 dram of {{favilink|sunslag}}.<ref><code>ObjectBlueprints.xml</code></ref>{{Code Reference|class=PluckablePolyp}} | |||
== Excerpt from [[In Maqqom Yd]] == | |||
{{qud quote|I spent another week's cycle sketching the autochthones of the coral arcology and taking studious notes. But one final experience stays with me. As I was trudging back north toward the bush and out of the Reef, I kicked a polyp off the trellis and unearthed by chance a swollen bulb of sunslag. Here I took a moment to squeeze the bright nectar into a phial, and when I once again looked up, I was met with the ageless stare of a galgal. Nothing had prepared me for it. My mind labored to make sense of what it was seeing: gleaming wheels whipped about a hypnotic core, the spokes' prisms pulled apart the light of the High Salt Sun, and across the stretched sheet of iris, many eyes stared. Consciously I was paralyzed, but some instinctual catalyst did its work, and I backed into the safety of the polyp maze and sped out.|noindent=true}} | |||
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