Return to base under emergency power

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ID: MISSING

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From: At the Command of the (Airship Name)

Your fuel burns perilously low. Clouds of black smoke cloak your retreat. The boiler wheezes ominously. How far, and how much farther?

Unlocked with Fuel Depletion of your Airship 8

Locked with Under Attack!, Far Afield from Station IX (30 + Sighting of a Landmark on the Roof × 25)

Challenge information

A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 50%)

Success

Heave ho!

[…] You stand by the stokers and keep the boilers kindled […]

[…] the propellers turn[…] and then you are in freefall. It is an unsteady descent[…]

When you land at last, crew from Station IX race to put out the flames, but there is admiration in their faces […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• You have moved to a new area: Watchmaker's Hill
•  You've gained ( Far Afield from Station IX × Base Watchful/10) x Survey of the Neath's Roof ?
•  You are returning to base. (Resets Far Afield from Station IX to 0)
• Your 'Fuel Depletion of your Airship' Quality has gone!
• Your 'Damage to your Airship' Quality has gone!

Failure

Too fast, Too hard

The clanks and wheeze of the airship's engines puncture the silence. [...]

A final, ominous choke – then [...] the loss of the engine makes the descent go much quicker.

Crew at Station IX scramble to put the flames, and the remainder of the crew, out.

• You have moved to a new area: Watchmaker's Hill
•  You've gained ( Far Afield from Station IX × Base Watchful/10) x Survey of the Neath's Roof ?
•  You are returning to base. (Resets Far Afield from Station IX to 0)
• Your 'Fuel Depletion of your Airship' Quality has gone!
• Your 'Damage to your Airship' Quality has gone!
•  Wounds is increasing… (+7 CP)