Negotiate with visiting captains

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From: The Midnight Trade


In exchange for its hospitality, the leviathan takes its share. Many captains require convincing of this fundamental truth.

Unlocked with Smuggled Airs 34-67, Peligin Work 1-4


Challenge information

Narrow, Mithridacy 18 (50% base)

  • 14 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 15 - high-risk (20%)
  • 16 - high-risk (30%)
  • 17 - tough (40%)
  • 18 - very chancy (50%)
  • 19 - chancy (60%)
  • 20 - modest (70%)
  • 21 - very modest (80%)
  • 22 - low-risk (90%)
  • 23 and above - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Inerrant counts as 1 extra point of Mithridacy.

Success

Paying dues

[see below]

Description summary:
Description varies based on Smuggled Airs. Wiki note: Numbers unaccounted for: 1 – 100

Smuggled AirsDescription
??This captain delegates his administrative duties to a Nervous Bursar [...] When you explain that, in return for a small percentage of their haul, the entire crew may sleep in the Midnight Moon [..] he relinquishes the leviathan's share with relief.
???"Do you have a bath? I would give a king's soul for a bath." You assure him that the inn has a tub, and a wayward devil hands over a clinking crate. "Better you than the apes." Amber eyes glitter in amusement. "Just."

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Failure

"I owe you nothing!"

This captain […] as a smuggler, is […] violently […] opposed to such things as 'taxes' and 'filthy excisemen' […] the benefits of contributing […] are better received once the captain in question is being dangled over the empty air by his rapidly fraying collar.

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