Lead the lamp-cats in a chess lesson
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From: High Tide in The Poisoned Pawn
Chess guides the currents of Port Cecil. The lamp-cats must learn its symbols, its geometry, its slow rhythms of give and take.
Challenge information
- 82 - very chancy (41%)
- 102 - chancy (51%)
- 122 - modest (61%)
- 142 - very modest (71%)
- 162 - low-risk (81%)
- 182 - straightforward (91%)
- 200 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Catspaw to Bishop Six
The cats observe your demonstrations intently, fist-sized eyes and bobbing escae casting the pieces on the board into weaving patterns of peligin shadow. […]
Your lessons are immediately vindicated in the following practice matches […][Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Watchful is increasing…
- The gilled lamp-cats are readying themselves for low tide. (Increases Receptivity of the Lamp-Cats by 3 CP)
- You've gained 1 x Tides of Port Cecil:
- You've gained 10 x Appalling Secret
- You've gained 25 x Cryptic Clue
Failure
Straying attention
The cats observe […] until […] you start to talk about the most terrible piece of all: the Cream.
Mention of cream is sufficient to elicit a plaintive chorus of wet mewling, which does not let up until you have laid down a bowl of milk and some fish. […][Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Watchful is increasing…
- The gilled lamp-cats are readying themselves for low tide. (Increases Receptivity of the Lamp-Cats by 3 CP)
- You've gained 1 x Tides of Port Cecil: