Play against the Novice Lamp-Cat
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From: Chequered Boards and Chess-Addicts
Only an amateur player, but already highly attuned to the game's principles.
Unlocked with 
1 x Knob of Scintillack
Locked with 
Cartographic Comprehension
Challenge information
Narrow, 
A Player of Chess 3 (50% base)
- 0 - high-risk (20%)
- 1 - high-risk (30%)
- 2 - tough (40%)
- 3 - very chancy (50%)
- 4 - chancy (60%)
- 5 - modest (70%)
- 6 - very modest (80%)
- 7 - low-risk (90%)
- 8 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Checkmate
[...]
Play is interrogation. Your questions are the chess-pieces. You take their pulse as a doctor would [...]
Do you feel it? The game's steady beat? Like blood under skin? Like water under the earth? [...]
"I have it," the Youthful Naturalist says, [...] sweating [...]
The Youthful Naturalist is starting to assemble a rather unconventional map. (Sets 
Cartographic Comprehension to 1)
You've gained 1 x Partial Map
A Player of Chess is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 2)
Failure
A wager lost
[...] that lure affixed to its head is a decided advantage. Your eyes are lost in the light. [...] Your Kin wails for help but you can't hear its lament. Your ears are filled with crashing waves and crying gulls from memories that are not yours.
[...]
You've lost 1 x Knob of Scintillack
Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)- A Player of Chess is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 2)
