Find the Moonlit Chessboard

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From: Leave your Parabolan Base-Camp

Colleagues have spoken of a place where the Moves of the Great Game are played out in Parabola.

Game Instructions: This is possible for everyone, but the Midnighter requires less Glasswork skill to find the Chessboard.

Unlocked with 1 x Shrine to Saint Joshua

Locked with Route: The Chessboard

Challenge information

Narrow, Glasswork 0 (50% base)

• 0 - very chancy (50%)
• 1 - chancy (60%)
• 2 - modest (70%)
• 3 - very modest (80%)
• 4 - low-risk (90%)
• 5 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Knight moves

Two steps forward, one to the side. Again. The way to the chessboard is a matter of oblique approach.

• You have moved to a new area: The Chessboard
• You've learnt a new route: Route: The Chessboard
•  Glasswork is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5 + Glass Studies)

Failure

Not here

On an open hillside, you find a toppled rook[…]less a chess piece, more a ruined building.[…]There are more rooks than there should be, and they are all fallen, and you are heading in the wrong direction.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)