Sardines

Neathmas festivities are traditionally ushered out with parlour games, before the last night's flaming pudding: but the Captain wasn't up for Catch-the-Drownie, the Cynical Herald has a moral objection to charades, and everybody laughed at your suggestion of Duck, Duck, Gray Duck. So your shipmates settled on Sardines.

That was three hours ago, and you haven't seen hide or hair of them since. You're starting to worry.

A completely unofficial fanwork set in the Fallen London universe, some time before the beginning of "Sunless Sea".