Chum the waters

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From: Approaching the (Zee-Beast Location)


Bait, well-deployed, may bring your enemy closer.

Game Instructions: This will always reduce the Elusiveness of your Quarry, making hunting easier. A success will have a greater effect.

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Challenge information

Narrow, 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%)

Success

The zee is bloody and wet

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

Zee-BeastDescription
Angler CrabThe […] Crab applies all of its limbs to rip your bait asunder […] hunks of flesh spatter across your deck. Eight lumps sit quivering in the crab's pincers, before it plunges into the depths once more. Still, you have a much better idea of where it is now.
Ravenous Lifeberg[…] hundreds of lesser predators swarm the cloudy water. At first the lifeberg seems untempted […] Then, with a sudden change of direction, it surges towards your ship. It nearly capsizes three other boats […], but at least it is closer to you now.
Feral CrocodileThe crocodile lunges from the water, snatching meat in its jaws and instinctively spinning into a death roll. Its huge body sends up a spray of brackish water as it falls back into the depths.
Lorn-Fluke[…] anything in the water is enough to drive the Fluke to ever-more-reckless fury. It affixes its distant attention on the blood in the water. Air shimmers, and the bait blackens, the zee around it rising to boiling point. […] Begone.

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Failure

Unwanted

Was it the wrong sort of unterzee delicacy? Was it perhaps beginning to smell? […] Whatever the reason, your quarry surfaces, inspects the meat, and abandons it immediately. Still, you have a better idea of where your foe is now.

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