Dissuade zailors from their superstitions

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From: The Business of a Crooked-Cross

Their voyage has been plagued by bad luck. The crew are refusing to set zail until the omens are better – by which point the shipment will be overdue.

Unlocked with  80 - 100,  5

Challenge information

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• 96 - very chancy (41%)
• 119 - chancy (51%)
• 143 - modest (61%)
• 166 - very modest (71%)
• 189 - low-risk (81%)
• 213 - straightforward (91%)
• 234 - straightforward (100%)
  

Property "Against" (as page type) with input value "" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category: Challenge]]Narrow, 10 (50% base)

• 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 7 - high-risk (20%)
• 8 - high-risk (30%)
• 9 - tough (40%)
• 10 - very chancy (50%)
• 11 - chancy (60%)
• 12 - modest (70%)
• 13 - very modest (80%)
• 14 - low-risk (90%)
• 15 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings"

What are the Gods of the Unterzee? A mountain. A roof. A far-off direction. These are not gods! These are geography[...] who is holier – the navigator, or the navigated? [...]

[...] They whisper reverent prayers to the skills of their crewmates, [...]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Services Rendered: Zailors
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 410 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Mysterious Client Attention Odds (hidden)

Depending on :

•  An interested party has made a request on your skills. (Sets Attracting the Attention of a Mysterious Client to 1)

Failure

"King Storm, stay your anger. Queen Stone, preserve our hearts. Salt, tempt us not—"

Your descent into heresy is insufficiently gentle[...] deckhands scrabble for gifts of wine and fish and copper wire to throw overboard for Storm, while the bo'sun retrieves a packet of fungal crackers and attempts to coax a white zee-bat [...]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 200 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies