Examine the leviathan (Non-Hunter)
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From: Spire, Inn, Leviathan
The old beast is taken for granted by those that walk upon her. The ground beneath one's feet is often invisible to the walker.
Locked with 
A Notched Bone Harpoon
Challenge information
Narrow, 
Monstrous Anatomy 8 (50% base)
- 4 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 5 - high-risk (20%)
- 6 - high-risk (30%)
- 7 - tough (40%)
- 8 - very chancy (50%)
- 9 - chancy (60%)
- 10 - modest (70%)
- 11 - very modest (80%)
- 12 - low-risk (90%)
- 13 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Risen midnight
The creature is colossal [...] a Midnight Whale is unmistakable in its enormity. [...]
How did it get all the way to these distant upper airs? They say that ascended ambergris floats, lighter than air. [...] There is even a name for the phenomenon: whalerise.Description summary:
The end of the first paragraph varies depending on whether you have 
Witnessed a Midnight Whale before.
| Witnessed | First Paragraph |
|---|---|
| 0 | Tavern tales in the Blind Helmsman say they surface to breathe only every seven years, and that all are called to the Gant Pole at the hour of their death. This last, at least, is untrue. |
| 1 | Few yet live in the Unterzee – last you encountered a live one, it was on its starlit way to the Gant Pole, to conduct whatever rites zee-beasts do before the hours of their death. This one is a long way from home. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
You've gained 1 x Final Breath
[Airs of the Leviathan change…] (random)
Failure
Cetacean out of water
The enormity […] beggars belief, […] threatening to shake one's faith in the ground itself. […] the leviathan's fins could no more be used as wings than your dirigible could be used as a zubmarine.
It cannot be, and yet it is. Somewhere, an assumption is wrong.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- You've gained 1 x Final Breath
Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)- [Airs of the Leviathan change…] (random)
