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From: Draw on your nautical knowledge


Her relationship to the Zee is no longer a perilous obsession. But she retains a trove of useful knowledge.

Unlocked with Laboratory Services from Hephaesta


Challenge information

Narrow, Zeefaring 4 (50% base)

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

Success

References

Hephaesta has read every single zailor's tale, captain's log, and maritime penny-dreadful she could get her hands on. And she will happily point you to the nuggets of truth buried in self-mythologising and fearful conjecture.


Failure

Complexities

Truth be told, Hephaesta knows so much more about this – absorbed from voracious reading of zailor's tales – that she runs circles around you. [...] Her patience is infinite, but you sense her disappointment as you come to an inconclusive end.