Employ the arts of Glasswhispery

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From: Traversing the Wastes of Want


Parabola is a gameboard of many pieces, and pieces may, with encouragement, be moved.

Unlocked with 3 x Moves in the Great Game, Set of Cosmogone Spectacles

Locked with Advance! 24


Challenge information

Narrow, Glasswork 5 (50% base)

  • 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 2 - high-risk (20%)
  • 3 - high-risk (30%)
  • 4 - tough (40%)
  • 5 - very chancy (50%)
  • 6 - chancy (60%)
  • 7 - modest (70%)
  • 8 - very modest (80%)
  • 9 - low-risk (90%)
  • 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Onwards

You employ the tools of the Silverer's trade. Folding mirrors and kaleidoscopic lenses […] you assemble a vision of a terrain that you would want to navigate […]

The terrain shifts by the hour as your army advances […] By your art, you hurry your army on.

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Failure

Move and counter-move

Sand trickles through an hourglass before a mirror. Beaches shift in response, forming beach-heads and dunes. […]

The mirror fogs. Thunder rumbles […] and lightning dances along the water. The boats containing your troops alight in violant flame. […]

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