Deal with Peach Brandy pirates

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From: The Business of a Midnighter


The Gracious Widow is having trouble with Surface pirates, and her usual contractors seem unable to stop them. Can you offer assistance?

Unlocked with Notability 5, Airs of Industry 80


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 140

  • 96 - very chancy (41%)
  • 119 - chancy (51%)
  • 143 - modest (61%)
  • 166 - very modest (71%)
  • 189 - low-risk (81%)
  • 213 - straightforward (91%)
  • 234 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, A Player of Chess 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

Switch and ditch

Your agent […] confirms that these 'pirates' never strike anything except the Widow's shipments. […]

[…] One of her own people substituted bottles of cold tea for the […] shipments […]. The piracy was […] cover. The […] brandy probably ended up with the Khanate elite.

[…]

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Failure

Davy Jones's liquor cabinet

[…]

[…] They abduct the bo'sun […] She spills everything […] However, once away from the trader they are instructed to throw it overboard.

The disappearance […] is enough to stop the pirate raids […] However, you sense that you didn't get to the bottom of things […]

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