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From: Low Tide in the Scintillack Pools
Action Cost: 0
How are things progressing, out where the coral gleams? Who is making their fortune? Who is faring poorly?
Success
Work progresses
[Variable first paragraph]
The tide whispers; always approaching, never out of sight.Description summary:
The first paragraph depends on multiple qualities.
 Iron & Misery Scintillack Extraction | First Sentence |
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| 0 - 2 | The miners' work teams are fighting against the jagged maw of the coral, and making very little headway. |
| 3 | The miners have extracted a very small quantity of scintillack from the tide pool. It glitters in their carts like glass. |
| 4 | Carts are slowly being filled with scintillack, drawn from the reef by the miners' efforts. They may yet meet their quota. |
| 5 | Scintillack is being chipped out of the cliffs by the fistful. The miners are having a productive shift. |
| 6 | The miners are coated in silver-purple dust. Scintillack falls from the cliff like hail. Some is lost to the zee, but a small fortune still remains for transport back to Port Cecil. |
| 7 - 8 | The miners have reduced this once-glittering tide pool to barren black steps. They barely have enough carts to transport their haul. |
 Feline Argentation | Second Sentence |
|---|---|
| 0 - 2 | Meanwhile, the lamp-cats are having little luck in finding scintillack that fulfils their opaque requirements. |
| 3 | Meanwhile, a crowd of lamp-cats has surrounded a small outcropping of coral. It looks like slim pickings for the curious creatures. |
| 4 | Meanwhile, the lamp-cats have split into two groups to investigate promising scintillack formations on either side of the pool. There may just be enough for each of them. |
| 5 | Meanwhile, the lamp-cats have access to enough scintillack that they can exercise their feline disdain for being around other cats. Their sinuous bodies twine in expected places. |
| 6 | Meanwhile, the lamp-cats are spoilt for choice, claiming all of the many coral spurs out of the reach of the miners' ropes and picks. They strut around the pool, successful. |
| 7 - 8 | Meanwhile, silver froth laps over the cliffs and into the zee, a sign of the lamp-cats' prodigious success. The cats themselves are smug and slow, basking in their own excellence. |
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