Investigate the Impostor Moon

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From: Explore Port Cecil


Its inexorable pull is the source of Port Cecil's localised tides. It's not the Moon – that would be absurd. But what is it?


Challenge information

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

Success

Tidal pull

The blue-silver gleam of the Impostor Moon is […] engaged in an imperceptible dance of approach and retreat. […] When it retreats, so too do the tides.

[…] it is undeniably inquisitive; intelligent. […]

The […] Moon bathes you in silver; a bright, silent enigma.

Description summary:
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False-StarPassage
1You can make out the distant light of your own False-Star to the west, a dazzling pinprick dwarfed – in size, if not luminosity – by this Imposter Moon.

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Failure

A curious light

[...]

The oldest locals treat it with reverence, believing it the light of the Principles [...] For the miners [...], its local tides are nothing but an inconvenience [...] Neither have any real insights into its true nature – only that it appears to be here to stay.