Buy a round for some smugglers

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It is only by knowing the secretive signs of the underworld that you can tell what their trade is. Smugglers of what? From where?

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Challenge information

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  • 123 - very chancy (41%)
  • 153 - chancy (51%)
  • 183 - modest (61%)
  • 213 - very modest (71%)
  • 244 - low-risk (81%)
  • 273 - straightforward (91%)
  • 300 - straightforward (100%)

Success

The gentleman's trade

[…] Whatever their reasons: they disgorge quite a lot of information.

[…] The Throat is just a waystation […].

As for their cargo? […]

[…] waxy, gant substance. It clings to the stopper […] – until you turn it around, and the mass slides to the other side of the glass. […]

Description summary:
After some "lubrication," your new-found friends reveal some details about their operation. Their ship is the Three Eyed-Lass. Their destination, the Midnight Moon, is somewhere east of the Hallow's Throat and above Balmoral. Their leader reveals that what they smuggle is a solid, yet lighter-than-air substance.

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Failure

Nothing of consequence

They welcome your gin […]. But conversation stays […] on the […] views of the Neath afforded by this citadel – they're on holiday, […] after visiting their ailing grandmother (they are all cousins) […]. No, they don't know anything about […] ancient bones, or ambergris.

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