Take a risk

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From: Approaching the (Zee-Beast Location)


Drive your ship hard and the beast harder. Train all your guns and stoke all your furnaces. Should you miss, however, it will take time to reconvene your resources.

Unlocked with In Pursuit of a Zee-Beast 2


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 185

  • 127 - very chancy (41%)
  • 158 - chancy (51%)
  • 189 - modest (61%)
  • 219 - very modest (71%)
  • 250 - low-risk (81%)
  • 281 - straightforward (91%)
  • 309 - straightforward (100%)

Base challenge is Zee Peril + 75, i.e. 185 in Stormbones and Shepherd's Wash.

Each point of Elusiveness of your Quarry increases the base difficulty by 1 point.

Success

Getting closer

Description summary:
The description varies based on the type of Zee-beast you are pursuing.

Zee-BeastDescription
Plated SealThe hungry horror of the Plated Seal dives as your guns speckle the waves […] But it has reckoned without your mines and your bombs which pursue it into the depths […] When it rises, its armour is buckled and blackened, its exposed skin red and raw. […]
Angler CrabThe thick carapace […] is barely sufficient to survive the full onslaught of your guns. […] a brilliant blue liquid seeps into the dark water from the blackened shell of the Crab. But, still it survives. […] it thrashes ahead, significantly wounded.
Ravenous LifebergThe jagged slopes of the Lifeberg's flesh are far tougher than normal ice […] The barrage seems only to enrage it […], and it pauses in its westward coursing to dart towards the nearest ship and crumple it like paper. Well, that's one way to slow it down.
Feral CrocodileThe crocodile ducks, dodges, and weaves in between your fire – but you manage to give it a few scrapes. Tell the zailors to get the blunderbuss; bring the ship in close. You'll get its skin yet.

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Failure

Getting closer?

Is this the right way? Was that thing floating in the water your quarry's last meal, or simply a drownie playing tricks? Where has it gone now? And why are there bubbles breaking the surface of the water over there...