Sit down with a local to play chess

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Chess runs like a current underneath the chaos of the mining boom. The remaining locals play religiously, with pieces carved from coral. Be careful.


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

A win

Your pieces surrender their far-flung futures and distant destinies at your touch. This one will commune with deep and sessile powers. […]

[…] You manoeuvre them towards convergence […] Reluctantly, inevitably, your opponent tips his Kin in resignation.

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Alternative Success

Apotheosis

Your opponent is a Rubbery Man crowned with coral. […] You play, not according to strategy, but to your pieces' awakening desires […] you advance an overlooked Skinpaw […] and it blossoms in […] remembrance […]

The Rubbery Man is nowhere to be seen. You […] have won.

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Failure

A loss

Certain unpleasant things become clear as you move the pieces across the board. Your Bishops are mocking you. […] The game abrades your mind like sandpaper.

"Checkmate," says your opponent. She smiles […] oblivious to the conspiracies of your chessmen.

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Alternative Failure

Epochal

Your opponent is a Rubbery Man who plays with agonising slowness. Moves are made in geological time, moons rising and falling between thoughts that consider the […] totality of the game's permutations. […]

You lose. Time breaks over you like a wave.

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