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
- 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-Beast | Description |
|---|---|
| Plated Seal | The 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 Crab | The 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 Lifeberg | The 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 Crocodile | The 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. |
| Lorn-Fluke | Squalls of fire-song and furious law lash against your hull, your hearts, your wills. But even as decking combusts, […] as zailors wail and convictions tremble under an onslaught that batters at the very walls of the real, your crew loose their shots. […] |
| Midnight Whale | The Midnight Whale brushes off your barrage as a horse might swat a fly. [...] Bioluminescent constellations shimmer [...] beneath the whale's translucent [...] skin. [...] Little by little, the whale turns [...]. Your pestering has – ever so slightly – changed its course. |
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Dangerous is increasing…
In Pursuit of a Zee-Beast is increasing… (+24 CP)
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...
- Dangerous is increasing…
- In Pursuit of a Zee-Beast is dropping… (-5 CP)
