EventAcross the pillars
Diamonds at the Cape
Below the grey cape at the river's turning, the shore itself glitters. The rock face is seamed with white stones that flash like cut gems, and threaded among them runs a yellow metal that takes a fine polish from a wetted thumb. By noon half the watches are ashore with barrels, and the words for what the barrels hold are already being chosen for the dispatch home. The master gunner, a miner's son, turns one yellow lump in his fingers for a long while and asks leave to speak plainly before anything is written down.
Fired by
Search for the Kingdom of SaguenayExpeditionFrom on arrive to waypoint · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
Triggers 1
- The Rendezvous at TadoussacAfter the chosen option
Triggered by 1
- Search for the Kingdom of SaguenayOn reaching a waypoint
Scripting 5
Requires 1
- uncovered_riches_variableOption 1
Grants 2
- leads_foundOption 1
- uncovered_riches_variableOption 1
References 2
- prestige_weak_penaltyOption 1
- research_progress_weak_bonusOption 2
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_saguenay.12.title Diamonds at the Cape
desc = seven_cities_saguenay.12.desc Below the grey cape at the river's turning, the shore itself glitters. The rock face is seamed with white stones that flash like cut gems, and threaded among them runs a yellow metal that takes a fine polish from a wetted thumb. By noon half the watches are ashore with barrels, and the words for what the barrels hold are already being chosen for the dispatch home. The master gunner, a miner's son, turns one yellow lump in his fingers for a long while and asks leave to speak plainly before anything is written down.
historical_info = seven_cities_saguenay.12.historical_info Cartier's last expedition loaded eleven barrels of gold ore and a great store of diamonds at Cap Rouge in 1542 and carried them triumphantly home, abandoning Roberval and the colony to do it. Assayed in France, the gold proved iron pyrite and the diamonds quartz, and the disappointment entered the language: faux comme un diamant du Canada, false as a Canadian diamond, was proverbial within a generation. The cape kept the name Cap Diamant all the same, and the city of Quebec now stands on top of the joke.
outcome = positive
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_wilderness_landing
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}