Shuttle contraband through the stalactite

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From: The Midnight Trade


The Harpoon is riddled with warrens, open only to the Candle-Men.

Unlocked with Airs of the Leviathan 68-100, Peligin Work 1-4


Challenge information

Narrow, Zeefaring 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 points of Zeefaring.

Success

The inner labyrinth

[see below]

Description summary:
Description varies based on Airs of the Leviathan.

Airs of the LeviathanDescription
1-25Your journey to the upper mooring posts takes you deep into the stalactite, where sequestered stoneseers speak to the rock, and through it, to the dead whale upon its tooth. If they note your passage, they do not show it.
26-50You are directed to drop a barrel [...] deep in the spire. No – much too deep to be part of the spire at all! This little room must be carved into the leviathan below. A Starved caretaker, rubbing amber into the preserved flesh [...], gives you an absent smile.
51-75Moving contraband through the rock-tunnels, [...] In a room to your left, two Starved Women sing to the stalactite, a deep and twisting harmony. They reach for each other – a slow, intimate gesture. You wipe sweat from your brow, and carry on.
76-100You come to know the spire's warrens as the veins of a great beast, and you a part of its lifeblood, carrying the necessities throughout its body. It respires in the movements of contraband, and its breath reaches the corners of the Neath.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]


Failure

Lost

The warrens of the Starved Men follow no known tenets of municipal planning with which you are familiar. Tunnels coil and curl back on themselves [...] It would have been quicker to brave the crowded exterior walkways.