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ID: 260433

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From: At the Command of the (Airship Name)

Push your engine to the limits. Let the Roof know such speed as Storm himself would pause before giving chase.

Locked with Under Attack!, Damage to your Airship 8, Fuel Depletion of your Airship 8, Far Afield from Station IX (30 + Sighting of a Landmark on the Roof × 25)

Challenge information

Broad, Aerial Prowess 50

• 35 - very chancy (42%)
• 43 - chancy (51%)
• 51 - modest (61%)
• 60 - very modest (72%)
• 68 - low-risk (81%)
• 76 - straightforward (91%)
• 84 - straightforward (100%)
  

The difficulty is equal to 50 + Far Afield from Station IX / 2 (rounded). The above is the difficulty when leaving London.

Success

Gliding through pillars of salt

Better to be swift than slow [...] You urge your stokers on, [...] while the rest of your crew work [...] The [Airship] rails creak as you turn it [...] rushing between the slender stalactites that hang above [...] But it holds steady. [...]

•  A little more of the Roof has been surveyed. (Raises Aerial Surveillance by 25)
•  You are moving further afield from Station IX. (Raises Far Afield from Station IX by 3)
•  Fuel Depletion of your Airship is increasing… (+1 CP)

Redirects to: At the Command of the (Airship Name)

Failure

To Hell, without thunder

More power to the boiler; more air to the balloon. See how she rises! [...]

A cry from the gantry. A scream from above. A harpoon of bone hangs quivering in the torn throat of an engineer. There are lights amidst the stalactites: you have been sighted.

•  A little more of the Roof has been surveyed. (Raises Aerial Surveillance by 15)
•  They are coming... (Sets Under Attack! to 1)
•  You are moving further afield from Station IX. (Raises Far Afield from Station IX by 2)
•  Fuel Depletion of your Airship is increasing… (+1 CP)

Redirects to: At the Command of the (Airship Name)