Hail them with their own passphrases

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From: A Khaganian Patrol Vessel (Corsair)


If you can convince them you're one of theirs, they might share information.

Game Instructions: Success here will aid you in tracking down your bounty.

Unlocked with Chasing Down Your Bounty


Challenge information

Narrow, A Player of Chess 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

Tortoise delights at Eagle's fall

The codes of the White-and-Golds are deliberately obtuse, and rely on an insider's knowledge of the Khanate's many clans and intrigues. It takes [...] long after the war trimaran has disappeared over the horizon to decipher the information [...] given.


Failure

Whoops

Either your passphrases are out of date, or your Hudum is rusty. Either way, the war trimaran is incensed at your signal, and blares towards you, searchlights roaming. Time to be elsewhere.