Blast through a spindle-geode

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From: Travelling through the Air


You spy a tell-tale glitter beneath dowdy rock. You could, of course, go around. But to ignore a geode – what a waste of riches!

Unlocked with Airs of the Air 130-139


Challenge information

Broad, Aerial Armament 75

  • 52 - very chancy (41%)
  • 64 - chancy (51%)
  • 77 - modest (61%)
  • 89 - very modest (71%)
  • 102 - low-risk (81%)
  • 114 - straightforward (91%)
  • 125 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Neathproofed counts as 9 extra points of Aerial Armament.

Success

Hidden riches

Put out the lines! Deploy the nets! Bring the airship around and line up the shot! The guns thunder and echo[...], and a half-second later the hanging geode erupts into [...] starlit diamonds. [...] The ruined geode leaves [...] a wound, exposing the stone's [...] crystal marrow.

Redirects to: Mooring your Airship


Failure

Breached

[…] Crack. The rock […] calves away, exposing what grows inside. It is […] a thick and viscous fluid, clear as glass. A humanoid shape curls within.

As the fluid […] makes contact with the air, it begins to harden and clot[…]. Soon it has all turned hard and crystalline[…].

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