Add a dash of zee-adventure!

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From: The Writer's Desk: rework!


Tales of runaway apprentices and poet-pirates will catch attention, but beware cliche.

Game Instructions: This can improve a work whose Potential is 90 or less.

Unlocked with 4 x Manuscript Page, 1 x Zee-Ztory, Potential 1


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 90

  • 62 - very chancy (41%)
  • 77 - chancy (51%)
  • 92 - modest (61%)
  • 107 - very modest (71%)
  • 122 - low-risk (81%)
  • 137 - straightforward (91%)
  • 150 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Blood, salt and iron

The sea churns! The deck tips! The princess falls from the mast, knife still in hand, to land squarely atop the zee-zerpent's head. "You are not my father!" she cries. .... turn the page.


Failure

All rather nautical

Once you translate the story out of the picaresque zailor's jargon, it's just a rather filthy little story about an overactive monkey. But leave the jargon in and it's incomprehensible. Let's move on.