Attempt an emergency retreat!

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ID: 260440

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From: At the Command of the (Airship Name)

The Starved Men swarm like a host of furious, white wasps. The citadels are full of eyes – and limbs, crawling down stalactites towards you. London calls, if you can but reach it...

Unlocked with Damage to your Airship 8 or Fuel Depletion of your Airship 8, Under Attack!

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

Challenge information

Broad, Aerial Prowess 100

• 69 - very chancy (41%)
• 85 - chancy (51%)
• 102 - modest (61%)
• 119 - very modest (71%)
• 135 - low-risk (81%)
• 152 - straightforward (91%)
• 167 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Steady descent, every inch in blood

Some crew pray; others scream[…] buying time with blood or gaining speed with fire. […]

[…] The deck buckles, but your guns are sturdy, your crew more so. The next hurled amber goes wide, the gap too great. Ragged cheers […] as you spiral[…] to where London waits […]

[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. (Removes Far Afield from Station IX)
•  Your 'Fuel Depletion of your Airship' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Damage to your Airship' Quality has gone!
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  Your 'Under Attack!' Quality has gone!

Failure

Freefall

The crew frantically drop ropes, lowering the balloon[…]

[…] not low enough. A vast Starved[…] with sclerotic wings dives onto the deck. There is blood-spray, and some of it yours, before it is at last dislodged, triumphant[…] Then there is only the descent[…]

[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. (Removes Far Afield from Station IX)
•  Your 'Fuel Depletion of your Airship' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Damage to your Airship' Quality has gone!
•  Wounds is increasing… (+7 CP)
•  Your 'Under Attack!' Quality has gone!