Barrel through

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From: Enspired Shallows


If you can just build up enough speed, you should be able to simply force your way through.


Challenge information

Broad, Zailing Speed 45

  • 31 - very chancy (41%)
  • 39 - chancy (52%)
  • 46 - modest (61%)
  • 54 - very modest (72%)
  • 61 - low-risk (81%)
  • 69 - straightforward (92%)
  • 75 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Unstoppable

The engines roar. […] – then you hit the spiny patch of strait.

They splinter against your hull, shards of cast-off Fluke flung outwards by the sheer moment of your passage. It has not done the paintwork any favours, but you're through.

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Failure

Immovable

You hit the spines just shy of max speed, and the force of your impact is not quite enough. Rather than shatter […], the spines instead find purchase on the skin of your hull. You lose valuable time to the bilge-pumps, and yet more to repairs.

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