A mass of chittering

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From: Stopping Along the Coast

Action Cost: 5

That cliff shimmers with movement. Beetles! Glowing purple darlings! Get the nets!


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 130

  • 89 - very chancy (41%)
  • 111 - chancy (51%)
  • 133 - modest (61%)
  • 154 - very modest (71%)
  • 176 - low-risk (81%)
  • 198 - straightforward (91%)
  • 217 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Got 'em

You haul the net up to the top of the low cliffs. The view from here is unspectacular – […]. You throw the net down into the chittering purple tide, and a fine catch of beetles tumbles down onto your waiting crew. Splendid!

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Failure

Like the babbling of a chitinous brook

You clamber over the low cliffs, net in hand. The beetles skitter away like an undulating magenta carpet. All you have to show for your efforts is a graze and those beetles that were caught in your boots.