The Wee Pier press kit

A pier, a line, and all the time in the world.

Description

Sit at the end of a stone pier on a Scottish island and fish.

Bait the line and a fish bites on its own. Your Reeling wears it down, it lands, and the quid roll in. Row out further as the quid comes in, from the Harbour Steps past the kelp to the Deep Channel and Beyond the Light, where the fish are bigger and the finds are stranger.

Folk from the island pin notices on the board and hand you errands, whenever suits. Rare finds give you Tales, which you spend on Lore that lasts. Boxes stack up on the quay until the fish van comes for them, boats go by out in the bay, and in time three hired hands fish beside you. Then something pale starts moving out past the lighthouse.

Features

Eight skills. You start with three; the other five sit on the page as ??? until you find them. Pin one to practise and it levels by itself.
Each skill has its own kit that gets better as the skill levels, and a star every ten levels with a perk on it
Four fishing spots and 53 fish and oddities for the catch log, from shore crabs to a ship's bell and a St Kilda mailboat
A Pier board with errands and 31 notices from the folk of the island, none of them with a deadline
Tales from rare finds, spent on ten nodes of Lore
Morag, Calum and Angus (and his collie) to fish beside you
The Bait tin keeps fishing while you're away, and when you come back the pier tells you what the line landed and what's waiting for you
Another summer: land the Lamplighter and the summer ends. Bring home Sea Glass from what you caught and found, spend it on the net, and start Summer 2 with 13 new catches.
Seals, otters, puffins, gannets and the odd passing drizzle