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From: Aboard the Delight


Most ships on the Unterzee do not hoist sails, but the Delight isn't most ships.

Unlocked with On the Deck of the Delight exactly 1

Locked with Nightmares 7


Challenge information

Narrow, Delighted 0 (50% base)

  • 0 - very chancy (50%)
  • 1 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Billowing above

Enormous sails catch the zee-breeze. Even the slightest puff [...] compels their sheets to surge outward like someone's chest swelling with pride. [...] the Delight slides across it so smoothly, so easily, that even without a breeze the ship continues gliding.


Failure

Billowing above

No breeze is required to blow the Delight on its course. Its sails routinely fill themselves [...] like massive lungs gasping to breathe. [...] scraped raw and fitted, stretched, pinned to the masts, as a skinned animal's hide would be stretched on a drum