Sit down with a local to play chess
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From: Explore Port Cecil
Challenge information
- 82 - very chancy (41%)
- 102 - chancy (51%)
- 122 - modest (61%)
- 142 - very modest (71%)
- 162 - low-risk (81%)
- 182 - straightforward (91%)
- 200 - straightforward (100%)
Success
A win
Your pieces surrender their far-flung futures and distant destinies at your touch. This one will commune with deep and sessile powers. […]
[…] You manoeuvre them towards convergence […] Reluctantly, inevitably, your opponent tips his Kin in resignation.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Watchful is increasing…
You've gained 4 x Memory of Distant Shores
Alternative Success
Apotheosis
Your opponent is a Rubbery Man crowned with coral. […] You play, not according to strategy, but to your pieces' awakening desires […] you advance an overlooked Skinpaw […] and it blossoms in […] remembrance […]
The Rubbery Man is nowhere to be seen. You […] have won.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Watchful is increasing…
You've gained 20 x Nodule of Warm Amber
Failure
A loss
Certain unpleasant things become clear as you move the pieces across the board. Your Bishops are mocking you. […] The game abrades your mind like sandpaper.
"Checkmate," says your opponent. She smiles […] oblivious to the conspiracies of your chessmen.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Watchful is increasing…
Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
You've gained 2 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Alternative Failure
Epochal
Your opponent is a Rubbery Man who plays with agonising slowness. Moves are made in geological time, moons rising and falling between thoughts that consider the […] totality of the game's permutations. […]
You lose. Time breaks over you like a wave.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Watchful is increasing…
- Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
You've gained 2 x Final Breath
