Spray the Scuttling Shell with your bottle (3rd time)

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From: Orchard House, Overgrown


Is your quarry bleeding? A trail of iridescent fluid leads down the corridor.

Unlocked with Associating with a Youthful Naturalist exactly 483, A Meeting of the Dilmun Club exactly 40


Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 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

Following the trail

Puddles shimmer like quicksilver […] in a trail that leads under the stairs. […]

[…]

The Shell of Regret is perched overhead on the stairs, drooling. Those wriggling limbs? […] they're really tongues.

They all shriek when you spray them […]

The Shell escapes […]

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


Failure

Walking into a trap

Puddles shimmer like quicksilver […] in a trail that leads under the stairs. […]

[…]

The Shell of Regret lunges from a hidden perch. It's leaking – no, drooling – as you grapple with tongues like tentacles. […]

They all shriek […]

The Shell escapes […]

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