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.


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. [...]