Look for the Moonlit Chessboard

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From: Leave your Parabolan Base-Camp

You've heard of a place where the Moves of the Great Game are played out in Parabola.

Game Instructions: This is possible for everyone, but the Midnighter requires less Glasswork skill to find the Chessboard.

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Challenge information

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

Success

Knight moves

Two steps forward, one to the side. Again. The way to the chessboard is a matter of oblique approach.

• You have moved to a new area: The Chessboard
• You've learnt a new route: Route: The Chessboard

Failure

Not here

On an open hillside, you find a toppled rook […] less a chess piece, more a ruined building. […] There are more rooks than there should be, and they are all fallen, and you are heading in the wrong direction.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)

Rare Failure

The longer game

You move towards the sound of pieces on a wooden board. […] a vast plane of Kaya wood, marked with a grid. There are hundreds (or thousands?) of round stones, clam-shell white and slate-black. […]

This is not the game you were looking for.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]