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From: Reach out to the mind of the Creditor


A captain of a ship is just a Creditor writ small. One who acts because one must; one whose actions have a scope greater than the captain alone can predict.

Unlocked with The Mind's Ascent exactly 2

Locked with Nightmares 8


Challenge information

Narrow, Zeefaring 10 (50% base)

  • 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 7 - high-risk (20%)
  • 8 - high-risk (30%)
  • 9 - tough (40%)
  • 10 - very chancy (50%)
  • 11 - chancy (60%)
  • 12 - modest (70%)
  • 13 - very modest (80%)
  • 14 - low-risk (90%)
  • 15 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

The heart is destiny's engine

To reach the Creditor, one must steer its city.[…]

You begin with petitions in the markets; new causes to harry, new complainers to harass. You whip up public opprobrium until you have an excess in your hold, […] a mandate hewn of raw populism. […]

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Failure

Wills of iron

[…] governance as much as science, of steering committees[…] nailing one's colours to the mast.[…]

[…] your captaincy […] dealt with whales and sharks […] not yet been tested against the resolve of the Planning Committee. And now it has. And now it has been found wanting.

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