Kill the Pinewood Shark

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From: Embattled with the Pinewood Shark

You cannot take this home with you. It is not a companion. It is a hunting trophy only.

Game Instructions: Fail here and you will be wounded, and will need to pursue it further to battle it again.

Unlocked with Parabolan Quarry exactly 200 (Pick up the trail of the Pinewood Shark)

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 460

• 315 - very chancy (41%)
• 391 - chancy (51%)
• 468 - modest (61%)
• 545 - very modest (71%)
• 621 - low-risk (81%)
• 698 - straightforward (91%)
• 767 - straightforward (100%)
  

Data above is for Parabolan Ferocity of 18. Difficulty rating is 100 + ( Parabolan Ferocity × 20).

Success

Meat and sharp edges

It comes at you, but you are faster. That is the easy bit. Then there's the butchery. It bleeds resin; its flesh smells like the forest floor; […] use some of the Pinewood Shark to make a chair, and some other portions for soup.

[Zailor's remarks]

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Dangerous Gains	Zailor's Remarks
6	It is only when you're done with the butchery that the dreamer emerges, shaking, from his hiding place. "It's been getting worse," he says.
12	"I heard you'd been busy with other […] nightmares […] Good to see you're still looking into mine. Though – once the enormous bird came. […] The shark nearly bit the stormbird in half, but then it brought in a whaling ship, sailing through the sky, and..." […]
18+	The dreaming Zailor catches your eye and waves thanks, before heading off toward the Viric Jungle.

• Dangerous is increasing…
• Your maximum Dangerous is now 206. (Sets Dangerous Gains to 6, if below 6)
• Your 'Parabolan Scouting' Quality has gone!
• Your 'Parabolan Quarry' Quality has gone!
• Your quarry has become less fierce. (Resets Parabolan Ferocity to 0)
• You are no longer on the track of any quarry. (Resets Partly Pursued to 0)
•  You've gained 1 x Dream-Trophies of Parabola
•  You've gained 2 x Fin Bones, Collected
•  You've gained 1 x Remains of a Pinewood Shark
•  You've gained 1 x Favours: The Docks (up to 7)
•  You've gained 6 x An Estimable Trophy
•  You've gained 1 x Memento of Violence

Failure

Refusal

It comes at you fast and suddenly. Afterward, you are lucky you still have an arm.

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Wounds is increasing… (+5 CP)

Redirects to: Pursuing the Parabolan Quarry