Engage the starved 'vessel'

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From: Cornering the (Bounty) at Last

Your quarry is within your sights at last. Your Blue Prophet shrieks from your shoulder. The Unterzee requires her due.

Game Instructions: You will always claim your plunder. Success will reduce the amount of Troubled Waters you gain.

Unlocked with Chosen Bounty Ship Type exactly 50 (hidden)

Challenge information

Narrow, Zeefaring 11 (50% base)

• 7 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 8 - high-risk (20%)
• 9 - high-risk (30%)
• 10 - tough (40%)
• 11 - very chancy (50%)
• 12 - chancy (60%)
• 13 - modest (70%)
• 14 - very modest (80%)
• 15 - low-risk (90%)
• 16 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Instructive

[...]

No two Starved Men respond to the onslaught in the same way. Some attempt to reshape themselves [...] Yet more leap into the water [...] these ones float disconsolately, their transformations [...] halted by the zee [...]

[...] eventually the waters are still once more. [...]

•  You've gained 1 x A Prolific Pirate
•  Troubled Waters is increasing… (+3 CP)
•  You've gained [See below] x Pieces of Plunder Weighing Down Your Hold
•  You are without a target once more. (Resets Chasing Down Your Bounty to 0)

If you haven't advanced past the intelligence-gathering phase of the war:

•  The Overworked Commodore will want to hear of this. (Increases Bearing Admiralty Intelligence by 1)
•  You've blown something up, and called it learning. (Sets Knowledge: A Reassuring Weakness to Cannonfire to 1)

Failure

Instructive

[...]

[...] you see chunks of rock and amber splinter from the mass [...]

[...]

The stalactite cannot stand [...] for long, but the Starved in the water prove more difficult to best. They reach onto the deck with quadruple-elbowed arms [...] They clamp to the hull [...]

[...]

•  You've gained 1 x A Prolific Pirate
•  Troubled Waters is increasing… (+12 CP)
•  You've gained [See below] x Pieces of Plunder Weighing Down Your Hold
•  You are without a target once more. (Resets Chasing Down Your Bounty to 0)

If you haven't advanced past the intelligence-gathering phase of the war:

•  The Overworked Commodore will want to hear of this. (Increases Bearing Admiralty Intelligence by 1)
•  You've blown something up, and called it learning. (Sets Knowledge: A Reassuring Weakness to Cannonfire to 1)