Look down (The Midnight Moon)

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From: Spire, Inn, Leviathan


Gantries, ropes and rotting scaffolds permit one to look over the flank of the speared leviathan.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 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 Neathproofed adds 15 points of Watchful.

Success

Through the air

[…]

Description summary:
Description varies with Upon the Belly of the Whale.

Upon the Belly of the WhaleDescription
1The sheer unholy force of the flow contorts the false-river into all possible forms. It batters […] into fine mist. It froths […]. It scatters […], falling as drizzle and shower and fierce, angry downpour. […]

Little else is visible […]. Perhaps it is for the best.

10[…] the rolling illusion of ground […] But beneath, there is […] the vast air […]

Old ropes trace a precipitous path […] Youths of the Moon clamber down there, half-Starved and born to the air[…] they leap into the abyss, falling for as long as their tethers will permit. […]

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Failure

Precipitous

[…]

Description summary:
Description varies with Upon the Belly of the Whale.

Upon the Belly of the WhaleDescription
1How much extra water would it take to fill the Neath, like a faucet left […] unsupervised? How much more can the Unterzee hold, how long until the Stolen River steals past its banks and take London for itself?

The long, wet fall below holds no answers.

10[…] a vertiginous inversion in your stomach. […] The beast[…] swims in a sea of airs and storms[…] It would be the simplest thing […] to step out into the airy sea and swim alongside this regent, this demigod—

[…] a hand on your shoulder. When did you get so close to the edge?

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