Look for the Moonlit Chessboard
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From: Leave your Parabolan Base-Camp
You've heard of a place where the Moves of the Great Game are played out in Parabola.
Game Instructions: This is possible for everyone, but the Midnighter requires less Glasswork skill to find the Chessboard.
Locked with Route: The Chessboard, Shrine to Saint Joshua
Challenge information
Narrow, Glasswork 7 (50% base)
- 3 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 4 - high-risk (20%)
- 5 - high-risk (30%)
- 6 - tough (40%)
- 7 - very chancy (50%)
- 8 - chancy (60%)
- 9 - modest (70%)
- 10 - very modest (80%)
- 11 - low-risk (90%)
- 12 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Knight moves
Two steps forward, one to the side. Again. The way to the chessboard is a matter of oblique approach.
- You have moved to a new area: The Chessboard
- You've learnt a new route: Route: The Chessboard
Failure
Not here
On an open hillside, you find a toppled rook […] less a chess piece, more a ruined building. […] There are more rooks than there should be, and they are all fallen, and you are heading in the wrong direction.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Rare Failure
The longer game
You move towards the sound of pieces on a wooden board. […] a vast plane of Kaya wood, marked with a grid. There are hundreds (or thousands?) of round stones, clam-shell white and slate-black. […]
This is not the game you were looking for.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]