Attempt to neutralise the rite's troublesome aspect

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From: Aquatic Alchemy


Scientifically speaking, the ritual is a series of reagents and processes. There may be a way to impart the desired effect without performing all of the troubling invocations.

Game Instructions: Success, should you manage it, will increase the potency of the water. Failure will not, and will disappoint Gebrandt.

Unlocked with Something in the Water exactly 14


Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 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

Neutralising poison

[…] Words can be changed; acids can be neutralised. An alchemist-orator, you reformulate the […] words so that the water is invigorated without that drowned and drowning taint.

[…]

The cut […] is largely symbolic; […] staining the mixture an uneasy midnight. […]

[…]

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  • Watersmall.png Time to put your improvisations to the test. (Sets Something in the Water to 17 - Attempt to replicate Mutton Island's well-water with F.F. Gebrandt)
  • Carcasssmall.png Your 'Strange Catch' Quality has gone!


Failure

Unsuccessful improvisation

[…]

F.F. observes you doubtfully. The water remains resolutely clear and unchanged. This is her laboratory; her expertise. These deviations from the model are noted.

[…]

"Well," says F.F. […] "Let's put it through the machine."

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  • Watersmall.png Hardly a successful experiment. But, perhaps, a safe one. (Sets Something in the Water to 15 - Attempt to replicate Mutton Island's well-water with F.F. Gebrandt)
  • Carcasssmall.png Your 'Strange Catch' Quality has gone!