Search the uncharted waters for your quarry
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From: A Blank Space on the Charts
Charts be d__ned! The day you need a map to hunt is the day you retire. Your own zeefaring canny is all you need.
Game Instructions: Success here will aid you in tracking down your bounty, but will only slightly reduce Troubled Waters.
Unlocked with 
Chasing Down Your Bounty, 
Corsair's Colours 2
Challenge information
Narrow, 
Zeefaring 6 (50% base)
- 2 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 3 - high-risk (20%)
- 4 - high-risk (30%)
- 5 - tough (40%)
- 6 - very chancy (50%)
- 7 - chancy (60%)
- 8 - modest (70%)
- 9 - very modest (80%)
- 10 - low-risk (90%)
- 11 and above - straightforward (100%)
 Zee Region | Challenge difficulty |
|---|---|
 Home Waters | 5 |
 Stormbones /  Shepherd's Wash | 6 |
 The Sea of Voices | 7 |
 The Salt Steppe | 11 |
 The Pillared Sea | 12 |
 The Snares | 13 |
Success
Holistic
How could these yellowed papers hope to map the roiling zee? Its currents course [...] No ship nor beast [...] can fail to leave its mark; [...] You listen to the waters, and know [...] where you must go.
Troubled Waters is dropping… (-1 CP)
You are closing in on your quarry. (Increases Chasing Down Your Bounty by [See below] CP)
You've gained (
Zailing Speed) x Zailing...
| Zee Region | Chasing gain |
|---|---|
| Home Waters | 8 |
| Stormbones / Shepherd's Wash | 9 |
| The Sea of Voices | 10 |
| The Salt Steppe | 14 |
| The Pillared Sea | 15 |
| The Snares | 16 |
Rare Success
Holistic
How could these yellowed papers hope to map the roiling zee? Its currents course [...] No ship nor beast [...] can fail to leave its mark; [...] You listen to the waters, and know [...] where you must go.
Your Prophet [...] echoes out across the zee.- Troubled Waters is dropping… (-6? CP)
- You are closing in on your quarry. (Increases Chasing Down Your Bounty by [See below] CP)
- You've gained ( Zailing Speed) x Zailing...
| Zee Region | Chasing gain |
|---|---|
| Home Waters | 10 |
| Stormbones / Shepherd's Wash | 11 |
| The Sea of Voices | 12 |
| The Salt Steppe | 16 |
| The Pillared Sea | 17 |
| The Snares | 18 |
Failure
Innovations in orienteering
As far as navigation techniques go, orienting oneself by the hypothetical position of a roving vessel [...] is a novel one. It is also not a particularly effective one. [...]
- Troubled Waters is dropping… (-5 CP)
Terror grips your vessel. (Sets 
Creeping Fear to 1)- You've gained ( Zailing Speed/2) x Zailing...
