Consult a Column of Searing Ash

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From: Along the Smoking Shore


Plumes of smoke blow across the stony shore. A small number are flecked with red and yellow and black. Might they be persuaded to spirit you past [enemy]?

Game Instructions: This will always increase Ravages of Parabolan Warfare.

Unlocked with Connected: Fingerkings 5, Airs of the Parabolan War 70

Locked with Advance! 24


Wiki note: [enemy] depends on The Enemy in Parabola

The Enemy in Parabola[the enemy]
1the Fingerkings
2the cats
4your legions
5the hidden enemies


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 250

  • 171 - very chancy (41%)
  • 213 - chancy (51%)
  • 255 - modest (61%)
  • 296 - very modest (71%)
  • 338 - low-risk (81%)
  • 380 - straightforward (91%)
  • 417 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Snake General reduces the base difficulty by 3 points.

Success

Old breath

The smoke sears across the stones, leaving a trail of brimstone and ash. […] You feel it move across you […] and for a moment you see a great hall. A court, lit with captive stars around which gargantuan snakes coil, shining in the reflected radiance.

[…]

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Failure

Ancient smoke

[…]

You make your entreaty, and are met with silence. It is a plume of smoke. What more did you expect?

As the column of smoke moves past you, a sudden spark leaps out. The stones around you ignite […]. You are forced to run to outpace the conflagration.

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