Use your hard-won knowledge of monstrous behaviour to predict its movements

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From: Approaching the (Zee-Beast Location)


The creatures of the briny deep have few secrets from you. Employ your experience to outfox the beast.

Unlocked with In Pursuit of a Zee-Beast 2


Challenge information

Narrow, Monstrous Anatomy 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%)

Difficulty is logistic with Elusiveness of your Quarry: .
Exact difficulty values are given in the table below:

Elusiveness of your Quarry0–1718–2829–3435–3940–4243–4546–4849–5152–5455–5758–6061–6566–7172–82≥83
Difficulty34567891011121314151617

Success

The beasts of the Neath, the beasts of the zee

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

Zee-BeastDescription
Plated SealThe Plated Seal is […] constant in one aspect: its playfulness. You do not need to hunt it if, instead, it is chasing you. […] by means of a long, slow turn and the belching of smoke […], you're able to lead it a few miles, into more friendly waters.
Angler CrabThe Angler Crab navigates by means of its luminescent illiciae. Its tectonic scuttling may, therefore, be arrested by means of a sufficient application of light. You order all torches, lanterns […] pointed directly at the enemy. […] It is blinded […]
Ravenous LifebergLifebergs kill out of blind malice rather than hunger […] motivated […] by whatever long, ancient transgressions can incense geography to murder. […] You corral a nearby shoal of jillyfish into the lifeberg's path, buying the Citizen's Armada more time […]
Feral CrocodileCrocodilians are many terrifying things, but they are not fish. It must come up for air periodically, or it will drown. You keep track of the timing of such emergences – opportunities to open fire, or to spot the beast's location.

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Failure

Experience's teacher

The thing is not where you expect it to be. Perhaps it is an outlier; perhaps an exile or an aberration of its kind. Perhaps you simply didn't know as much as you thought you did – but now you know a little more. Next time, you'll be ready.