Load contraband onto departing dirigibles

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From: The Midnight Trade


The power of the Candle-Men comes in part from their stranglehold on the process of connecting contraband to cargo holds. Nobody else is permitted to move product through the Moon.

Unlocked with Smuggled Airs 0-33, Peligin Work 1-4


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 200

  • 137 - very chancy (41%)
  • 170 - chancy (51%)
  • 204 - modest (61%)
  • 237 - very modest (71%)
  • 270 - low-risk (81%)
  • 304 - straightforward (91%)
  • 334 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Inerrant counts as 15 extra points of Dangerous.

Success

Hidden cargoes

[see below]

Description summary:
Description varies based on Smuggled Airs.

Smuggled AirsDescription
1-25You load roof-drip into the cargo hold of the Bonny Rascal, a dirigible stolen from London's shipyards. The half-anker casks slosh with each movement of the gondola. Some are labelled. You heft one. 'Exmoor – heather and rain'. Tasting notes?
26-50These barrels, due to be loaded onto the Sad But True, have false compartments at the ends. The middle […] around the bung hole, is full of cheap ale. […] past the bilge hoops you pack skulls – ancient, yellowed things from far above, due for the Bone Market.
51-75You load […] ascended ambergris into the empty space beneath the Three For Sorrow's false hull. It is a tiny little craft, held together by spit and hope – a poor choice for smuggling any other good. But ambergris […] adds no extra weight at all to the vessel.
76-100The Thunderhead is travelling eastwards, its cargo locked in heavy iron crates. Under no circumstances are you to look inside. Under no circumstances are you to speak to what lies within. Under no circumstances are you to believe what they say.

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Failure

Mistaken identity

Many airships leave the Midnight Moon every hour [...] It is only to be expected that sometimes [...] a hold gets loaded up with the wrong cargo. Who could have foreseen that two airships named The Rose of Mutton would be moored at once?