Head towards the light

ID: 264858

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From: 'Now! Now!'

The zee fort's signals can guide you through the remaining hazards. But their light operator isn't the sharpest tack in the box. You'll need to be canny. And lucky.

Game Instructions: Success will guarantee you reach the magazine intact. Failure will detonate your cargo, and you.

Challenge information

Narrow, Zeefaring 13 (50% base)

• 9 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 10 - high-risk (20%)
• 11 - high-risk (30%)
• 12 - tough (40%)
• 13 - very chancy (50%)
• 14 - chancy (60%)
• 15 - modest (70%)
• 16 - very modest (80%)
• 17 - low-risk (90%)
• 18 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

The above difficulty is for A Consignment of Capricious Cargo 2.

Each point of A Consignment of Capricious Cargo increases the base difficulty by 6 points.

Success

Steel in your nerves, zeewater in your blood

Your reflexes must be as lightning; your command of the signalling code perfect. And it is. The Admiralty's signaller gives exact, if disorganised, information […] The ship noses through the final curtain of rocks, and finally, all is calm. […]

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•  Safe! (Sets Progress Towards Admiralty Ordnance Depôt № 8 to 8)

Redirects to: Within the Jaw behind Wayland's Teeth

Failure

STRAIGHT AHEAD... HAZARD... AVOID

Why would the man sequence the message in that order?! The ship grinds over a jutting tooth. For a moment, all is still and silent. Then comes the creaking, then the shrieking of metal, then the screaming.

"Breached! We are breached! We are—"

•  An occurrence! Your 'Volatility of Your Cargo' Quality is now 8 - Everything is fire! (if below level 8)

Redirects to: —sday,—h o—___