Explore its lair thoroughly before it returns

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From: A Rat in a Sewery Maze

Who knows what you might find? I mean probably you'll find rat dung and half-eaten children, but you never know. Just be out of the sewers before the tide comes in.

Game Instructions: Abandon your bounty and see what you can find in the beast's lair instead.

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 24

• 17 - very chancy (42%)
• 21 - chancy (52%)
• 25 - modest (62%)
• 29 - very modest (72%)
• 33 - low-risk (82%)
• 37 - straightforward (92%)
• 40 - straightforward (100%)
  

Broad difficulty is related to Quarry's Savagery. Reduce it for easier hunting.

Success

A nest of squirming monsters!

Dear God – it's a female! Good thing you caught these abominations before they grew to full size. The Department of Menace Eradication will certainly pay you a bonus for these. And what's that, glowing in the filth?

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Dangerous is increasing… (+12 CP, up to level 50)
•  You've gained 50 x Rat on a String
•  'Quarry's Savagery' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
•  You've gained 35 x Phosphorescent Scarab
•  Your 'Quarry: Confounded Thing is Hiding' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Your Quarry: Wariness' Quality has gone!
•  You no longer have a quarry. (Removes Your Quarry:)
•  Your quarry will no longer be tempted by poisoned bait. (Removes Quarry's Greed)

Failure

Too slow...

Lost and panicked in the sewers, you lose its trail and escape, shivering and filthy, only just ahead of the rising tide of mud. You see nothing of the beast. Did it drown and cheat you of your reward? Or has it moved on somewhere else?

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  You've lost 1 x Quarry's Savagery
•  You've gained 4 x Quarry: Confounded Thing is Hiding

Redirects to: Hunting across London