Stuck with Sphinxstone [Spoilers]

[SaltyStoryteller]

So I'm fairly sure that most junior zee-captains, once they realise the London-Venderbight wine trade is a steaming great pile of zeebat droppings, cotton on to carrying spinxstone from the Salt Lions back to London. It's a nice little earner, that eventually comes to an end, due to machinations of a certain party.

If however, you choose to reject the Bright-Eyed Sequencer's offer and accept Penstock's, then you may be stuck with a serious problem, especially on your first playthrough and possibly quite early on: If you started out as an urchin, the requirement to get rid of these 20 units of useless ballast clogging up your hold is a hefty 75 Veils! I'm certainly no rookie, but even at a stretch, I can only manage 63 Veils! Why in the name of everything good under the sun or false-stars, is it a flat-out wall? I am now effectively stuck with half my hold useless until I die or somehow manage to gain another dozen secrets from somewhere!

This needs to be addressed sooner, rather than later. A simple test, like nearly everything else in the game, would be more than sufficient, surely?

[Wlerin]

Well, you can dump most of them overboard.

[Handy]

Do you not still have the option to take the cargo to the Sequencer? I forget when that option goes away.

Another option that eluded me for a while: dump the sphinxstone, or some portion of it in the ocean. You do not need to have 20 to take it to complete the quest. You need 1. I wonder if you couldn't dump it all and go back to the Salt lions for more...

[SaltyStoryteller]

Useful to know, but it's still a huge oversight on the part of the developers. Making it a flat "Nope, you lack the requirements," on something that, let's be honest, many of us have other priorities to improve!