Lead the lamp-cats in a chess lesson

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From: High Tide in The Poisoned Pawn


Chess guides the currents of Port Cecil. The lamp-cats must learn its symbols, its geometry, its slow rhythms of give and take.


Challenge information

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  • 82 - very chancy (41%)
  • 102 - chancy (51%)
  • 122 - modest (61%)
  • 142 - very modest (71%)
  • 162 - low-risk (81%)
  • 182 - straightforward (91%)
  • 200 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Catspaw to Bishop Six

The cats observe your demonstrations intently, fist-sized eyes and bobbing escae casting the pieces on the board into weaving patterns of peligin shadow. […]

Your lessons are immediately vindicated in the following practice matches […]

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Failure

Straying attention

The cats observe […] until […] you start to talk about the most terrible piece of all: the Cream.

Mention of cream is sufficient to elicit a plaintive chorus of wet mewling, which does not let up until you have laid down a bowl of milk and some fish. […]

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