We attempted a safe approach to the beleaguered vessel...

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From: Searching for a Ship, Adrift


...and hoped the hazard or monster that had claimed its crew was no longer in evidence.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 45

  • 31 - very chancy (41%)
  • 39 - chancy (52%)
  • 46 - modest (61%)
  • 54 - very modest (72%)
  • 61 - low-risk (81%)
  • 69 - straightforward (92%)
  • 75 - straightforward (100%)

Success

With a mixture of satisfaction and apprehension

Our minds were clear, [written address], and our hands steady. We made an approach that was suitably cautious, then suitably bold. We drew alongside our object, and the crew drew lots as to which of them would cross over.

Redirects to: The Salvor's Work

Failure

Was it lying in wait?

[…] we were incautious […]. The water was clear, the stranded vessel intact and sound. […]

The zee fell away, a yawning maw that […] blurs between hydrodynamic phenomenon and vast, primordial jaws. […]

I know not whether it was by skill or luck that we survived […]

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