Part 8

Upon reaching the Floating Island, you will be presented with a choice: accept the Outsider's Mark or refuse it. Refusing the mark initiates a "no-powers" run, disabling all abilities and locking you out of certain loot.

If you accepted the mark, you will gain access to character-specific abilities: Far Reach for Emily or Blink for Corvo. These are necessary to cross larger gaps. If you refused the mark, the gaps are smaller and can be traversed with normal jumps and sprinting.

Explore the Floating Island, using your chosen abilities or normal movement to navigate the terrain.

Midway through the Floating Island, you will find "The Heart," an object that marks undiscovered bonecharms and runes on your minimap (radar (your minimap with nearby blips and threats marked)). It also reveals lore about NPCs when used on them.

Taking The Heart is mandatory. Use it to locate the runes' shrine, approximately 70 meters away. Collect the runes to upgrade abilities (or convert them to 200 coins apiece on a no-powers run). The level concludes after collecting these runes.

You awaken on Meagan's ship, the Dreadful Wale. If you have the Limited Edition's "Digital Imperial Assassin's Pack" DLC (downloadable content — extra missions or items released after launch), you can claim its items from the desk. These include two bonecharms: Duelist's Luck (increases chance of extra pistol ammo) and Void Favor (supernatural powers sometimes consume no mana). A lorebook and guitar are also included but have no gameplay function.

A note from Meagan on the cabin door suggests looting to sell at black markets. Sokolov has left a crossbow, providing a stealthy, silent ranged option. Acquiring the crossbow grants 100 coins, plus an additional 500 coins if the Assassin's Pack DLC is installed.

Before proceeding, use The Heart to find a sunken rune approximately 40 meters from the ship. Swim down to the wreck, retrieve the rune from a shelf, and surface quickly as powers are unavailable underwater.

Collect the rune (worth 400 coins if you are on a no-powers run) and other available loot on the Dreadful Wale. This includes 130 coins from belowdecks in a locked storage room (requiring entry via a watertight door) and 5 coins from a bloodfly husk in Sokolov's display case.

To pursue the "Royal Spymaster" trophy, find and read all journals and audiographs from Foster and Sokolov on the Dreadful Wale. Specific items include: a letter from Emily or Corvo in Corvo's room, "Limited Resources" stapled to Corvo's door, "Maintenance List" by the main stairwell, "Trying to fix the secondary engine" on an engine room console, three documents ("The Shindaerey Gift," "Crown Killer Strikes Again!," "Blood of the Abele House") in the belowdecks room Meagan starts in, Sokolov's notes and audiograph in Sokolov's room, "Dreadful Wale Accounting" by Meagan's bed on the ship's bridge, "A Reflection on My Journey to the Pandyssian Continent [4]" on an upper deck cargo trunk, and "A Reflection on My Journey to the Pandyssian Continent [3]" in the locked storage room. The "Goodbye, Karnaca" book from the DLC pack is not required for this trophy.

Exit the locked storage room by smashing a 2x4 against the inner latch.

Listen to Meagan's briefing, which indicates the Crown Killer was last seen at Addermire Institute, Hypatia's laboratory. This is your objective for the next two missions.

Meagan will relocate to the upper deck's skiff launch area and will ferry you to the mainland when asked. Returning to the Dreadful Wale during the mission is impossible, so ensure all necessary actions are completed before departing.