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From: A Giant Angler Crab


Giant or no, it's only a d__ned crab.


Challenge information

Narrow, Monstrous Anatomy 3 (50% base)

  • 0 - high-risk (20%)
  • 1 - high-risk (30%)
  • 2 - tough (40%)
  • 3 - very chancy (50%)
  • 4 - chancy (60%)
  • 5 - modest (70%)
  • 6 - very modest (80%)
  • 7 - low-risk (90%)
  • 8 and above - straightforward (100%)

Difficulties: Home Waters/ Shepherd's Wash: 3, the Sea of Voices: 5, the Salt Steppes: 9, the Snares: 12.

Success

Sunken

Shots hit the creature's carapace and lodge into it, doing little to deter the beast. But one skillfully-aimed shell strikes it right between the eyes […] The creature topples over into the water […] you have defeated it.

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Failure

A protracted exchange

[…]your ship fires a volley[…]one of the thing's claws threatens to swipe you out of the ocean[…]one of the shells opens a crack in its carapace. The crab retreats back into the Zee[…]something about the beast's eyes suggests an intention to find your ship again

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