Outflank the (Zee-Beast)
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From: Approaching the (Zee-Beast Location)
Drive it from its course; harry it across the great wide zee.
Unlocked with 
2
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%)
Difficulty is logistic with 
: .
Exact difficulty values are given in the table below:
| Elusiveness of your Quarry | 0–17 | 18–28 | 29–34 | 35–39 | 40–42 | 43–45 | 46–48 | 49–51 | 52–54 | 55–57 | 58–60 | 61–65 | 66–71 | 72–82 | ≥83 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficulty | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
Success
Against the tide
Description summary:
The description varies based on the type of Zee-beast you are pursuing.
 Zee-Beast | Description |
|---|---|
| Plated Seal | The Plated Seal is armoured, but your ship is iron. The zee roils as you collide, forcing the seal to turn […], desperately racing ahead of the vicious undertow beneath your hull. The seal is faster, but you are gaining, and it is further from home now. |
| Angler Crab | The […] Angler Crab would dent your hull, if not put a hole in it. Caution is your watchword, therefore, as you speed your ship down the channel, sucking water beneath it. The crab […] is forced to turn aside […] it is tiring from the detour. |
| Ravenous Lifeberg | The Lifeberg could plough through your ship, running you aground on its fleshy slopes […] You are forced to coordinate […] to bombard the beast […] One ship does not gauge the distance correctly and is pulled into the lifeberg's inexorable undertow […] |
| Feral Crocodile | The crocodile is large, threatening, and overfed, but it is not as gigantic as some zee-beasts. It will take precision and speed to manoeuvre around such a wily animal. |
| Lorn-Fluke | The Fluke is nothing but spines and an eye. (This is not true. The Fluke is the fury of a smoke-banked world, the Fluke is death-in-amber, the Fluke is speaking lost desires across the air with a voice of ancient lightning.) So it follows […] |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
In Pursuit of a Zee-Beast is increasing… (+14 CP)
Failure
Keep on!
Smoke belches from your boilers; pistons thunder in the deep. […] But the beast is cunning: […] it goes under. You keep both hands on the wheel, frantically forcing your ship onwards, before the thing can surface beneath you.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- In Pursuit of a Zee-Beast is increasing… (+7 CP)
