Use your knowledge of the Red Science to improve the miners' pump
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From: High Tide in The Poisoned Pawn
Even when the tide recedes, it is impossible for the miners to work until the tide pools are drained – and their pumps are notoriously unreliable.
Challenge information
Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 8 (50% base)
- 4 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 5 - high-risk (20%)
- 6 - high-risk (30%)
- 7 - tough (40%)
- 8 - very chancy (50%)
- 9 - chancy (60%)
- 10 - modest (70%)
- 11 - very modest (80%)
- 12 - low-risk (90%)
- 13 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Unauthorised modifications
[...] They will not bear much strain, so you keep your modifications slight – [...] a little slice of direction excised, upended and then sewn perfectly back into place.
[...] When low tide hits, the water will flow up and out [...] as if running downhill.- The miners are steeling themselves for the next shift. (Increases Miners' Preparations by 3 CP)
- You've gained 1 x Tides of Port Cecil:
- You've gained 7 x Map Scrap
- You've gained 1 x Knob of Scintillack
Failure
Some reassembly required
[...] Its components are aged and rusted, unable to withstand much [...] So you are careful, gentle—
Or, that was the plan. A sigil must have been mis-conjugated, or an equation flawed; regardless, the pump explodes rather than violating natural law. [...]- The miners are steeling themselves for the next shift. (Increases Miners' Preparations by 3 CP)
- You've gained 1 x Tides of Port Cecil:
- Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)