Load the cannons!
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From: A Fellow Mourner
Did you hear your Prophet call their name? It's hard to say. What is certain is exactly how much honour persists among thieves.
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%)
Success
Treacherous waters
It is not your bombardments that sink them, but the Corsair's Forest itself. […] the corsair slips into a swift current, […] grinding against a hundred teeth of hungry rock. Their wreck will moulder […] for months and years […], an ill-portent to future visitors.
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Troubled Waters is increasing… (+4 CP)
You've gained 500 x Pieces of Plunder Weighing Down Your Hold
You've gained (
Zailing Speed + 1~5) x Zailing...
You've gained 1 x Time Spent at Zee (hidden)
Rare Success
Easy pickings
[…] Tiny lifeboats ferry fleeing zailors in the other direction. The Unterzee takes its due […]
When the smoke clears, […] heavy chests bob amid the flotsam. […] This steamer is a very good haul […] – and all without a single shot fired.
For now, their riches are yours.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Troubled Waters is increasing… (+3 CP)
- You've gained 550 x Pieces of Plunder Weighing Down Your Hold
- You've gained ( Zailing Speed + 1~5) x Zailing...
- You've gained 1 x Time Spent at Zee (hidden)
Failure
Home territory
Your opponent knows the slipways and shortcuts […] to outmanoeuvre you, putting grasping rock formations between your deck guns and its hull. It is only hard-won instinct that prevents you from falling for their gambit […].
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- Troubled Waters is increasing… (+10 CP)
- You've gained ( Zailing Speed + 1~5) x Zailing...
- You've gained 1 x Time Spent at Zee (hidden)
