Submariner — Instructions

A voyage is a single, standalone run — it starts when the host opens boarding and ends when the sub either docks successfully or is declared a failure. Nothing carries over between voyages except what you salvage.

1. 1Boarding — the host opens the voyage. Anyone in chat can join by paying the boarding fee and picking a profession.
2. 2Underway — the host departs the sub. Crew work three mission tracks at once (Military, Science, Navigation) using in-game actions, fueled by songs played during the show.
3. 3Docking — at the end of the show the host docks the sub. If all three mission tracks are complete, the voyage succeeds and everyone's salvage sells for Sawpoints. If not, the mission fails and everything gathered that voyage is forfeited.

The host can optionally set each voyage in a named ocean region — a bit of flavor and setting, purely cosmetic (it doesn't change depth zones, what spawns, or the odds of anything). Every region the crew has ever explored is tracked on the public Ocean Map, alongside how many voyages (and how many successes) each one has seen.

Boarding costs Sawpoints (Bonus SP is spent first, then regular SP). The fee scales up as the sub racks up more successful voyages over time — the crew's reputation (and the cost of a seat) grows with every successful run. Subscriber and VIP discounts stack:

Missed the boarding window? You can still board late after the sub departs, at a markup — the host can also close late boarding entirely for a given voyage. Exact costs are set per voyage by the host and shown with !sub status.

Most in-voyage action costs are covered by Action Points (AP) first, if any are banked, then Bonus SP, then regular SP — AP is earned just by playing (songs, listens, hunts, and more) and exists purely to cut down how much Sawpoints a voyage actually costs you. Boarding fees and Auction House purchases are the exception — both are Sawpoints-only (Bonus SP first, then SP) and can't be covered with AP.

Pick a class when you board with !sub board <class>. Most actions are open to everyone regardless of class, and working in your profession earns full credit toward your rank — working outside it still counts, just at 25% weight (10% for Historian's log/review/rate). You can switch classes mid-voyage with !sub class <class> for a small cooldown-gated fee — except Cook, which can only be joined at boarding, and whose !sub cook/!sub bake commands only work for the crew member actually holding that class.

Once underway, boarded crew spend a small amount of Sawpoints (or Action Points, if any are banked) on each action to push the mission forward:

• 🎣!sub fish — search for salvageable materials on the ocean floor. Advances Science and adds to your held loot. Which material you get is weighted by rarity (60% common / 25% uncommon / 12% rare / 3% legendary) — a legendary find is genuinely uncommon, not just worth more. The very first time anyone ever catches a given material, that catch pays double as a discovery bounty. Each catch also has a small chance to turn up a bonus repair material (capped per voyage), so Science isn't purely dependent on songs for repair supply.
• 🧭!sub steer <deeper|shallower> — vote to shift the sub's depth zone. Advances Navigation; enough net votes in one direction actually moves the zone. Navigation-only !sub map banks safe-passage charges that soften the hull damage penalty on the next few deep-water hunt losses.
• ⚔️!sub hunt [#] — fight a roaming creature. Win and it's harvested for salvage + advances Military; lose and you just lose the action's cost, nothing worse. Fighting a creature whose species affinity matches your class gives a small win-chance bonus, and tougher wins (lower odds going in) pay out bonus Action Points. There's a 5% chance of a critical hit on a win (double salvage) and a 5% chance of a fumble on a loss (the creature flees for good, and the hit hurts more) — and the very first harvest of a given species, ever, pays double. First-ever discoveries and every crit/fumble get called out in chat.
• 🔬!sub scan [#] — analyze a roaming creature, revealing its HP, aggression, salvage value, and your personal hunt odds (factoring in your class and rank) in chat. Advances Science.

Songs fuel the crew — and summon the deep. When the host logs a song with !sub song <title> (or !sub song <title> by <artist> to attribute it), it mints Action Points (AP) for every boarded crew member (spent before Sawpoints on any action) and has a chance to summon an exotic creature from the depths, generated deterministically from that specific song — the Encounter Overlay and admin panel both show which song (and artist, if given) surfaced it. Deeper depth zones (reached by steering) summon tougher creatures worth genuinely more salvage — but a lost fight against something from the depths chips the hull harder.

React to the music with !sub listen <comment>. Anyone aboard can leave one reaction per song — it's a 50/50 coin flip whether it mints a small amount of bonus AP (1 up to the voyage's listen cap), but every comment gets logged as part of that song's marine discovery record either way.

Once a mission track is complete, its payouts taper off. You can keep fishing or hunting after Science/Military hit their target — it still works and still nets salvage — but the payout drops to about half. It's more efficient to spread effort across all three tracks than to grind one past its goal.

Every successful voyage's salvaged fish and materials also restock a house-owned Auction House — a between-voyage way to spend Sawpoints.

• 🔨!sub auction — see what's currently listed, then !sub bid <#> <SP> to bid, or !sub buynow <#> to skip the wait and buy it outright. You can also bid and buy directly on the Auction House page — handy if chat isn't cooperating.
• ⏸️Bidding and buying pause while a voyage is underway — browsing stays open the whole time. Transactions reopen once the crew docks or the host aborts.
• 🔒Rare and Legendary items are exclusive — once one sells, that exact catalog item is locked to its buyer forever and never listed again. Common/uncommon items can have many owners over time.
• 🏆!sub collection — check which exclusive items you personally own.

The sub itself persists across voyages — its hull, components, and banked raw materials all carry over, win or lose the mission tracks isn't the only thing at stake.

• 🔧!sub repair — spend banked materials (gathered from songs, with a small bonus chance from !sub fish) plus a small Sawpoints cost to heal the hull. A Cook aboard performing the repair heals extra — "cooking" the materials into a more effective patch.
• 🛠️!sub attach <creature#> <slot#> — permanently mount a harvested-and-scanned creature as a component, giving the sub a passive bonus (hull damage reduction, bonus Action Points per song, or better creature spawn odds) at the cost of its salvage value.
• 🚨Code Red — the host can call one (galley fire, hull breach, kraken grapple, engine bloom). Type the always-free !sub allhands to help respond before the timer runs out, or the hull takes damage.