Use your hard-won knowledge of monstrous behaviour to predict its movements
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From: Approaching the (Zee-Beast Location)
The creatures of the briny deep have few secrets from you. Employ your experience to outfox the beast.
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
The beasts of the Neath, the beasts of the zee
Description summary:
The description varies based on the type of Zee-beast you are pursuing.
 Zee-Beast | Description |
|---|---|
| Plated Seal | The Plated Seal is […] constant in one aspect: its playfulness. You do not need to hunt it if, instead, it is chasing you. […] by means of a long, slow turn and the belching of smoke […], you're able to lead it a few miles, into more friendly waters. |
| Angler Crab | The Angler Crab navigates by means of its luminescent illiciae. Its tectonic scuttling may, therefore, be arrested by means of a sufficient application of light. You order all torches, lanterns […] pointed directly at the enemy. […] It is blinded […] |
| Ravenous Lifeberg | Lifebergs kill out of blind malice rather than hunger […] motivated […] by whatever long, ancient transgressions can incense geography to murder. […] You corral a nearby shoal of jillyfish into the lifeberg's path, buying the Citizen's Armada more time […] |
| Feral Crocodile | Crocodilians are many terrifying things, but they are not fish. It must come up for air periodically, or it will drown. You keep track of the timing of such emergences – opportunities to open fire, or to spot the beast's location. |
| Lorn-Fluke | Flukes are rare and sessile things: slow to passion; slow to cool; capable of epochal furies and sorrows. This rampage is not random. The Fluke was provoked by the abyssal detonation of the Admiralty's cast-off ordnance. […] |
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In Pursuit of a Zee-Beast is increasing… (+14 CP)
Failure
Experience's teacher
The thing is not where you expect it to be. Perhaps it is an outlier; perhaps an exile or an aberration of its kind. Perhaps you simply didn't know as much as you thought you did – but now you know a little more. Next time, you'll be ready.
- In Pursuit of a Zee-Beast is increasing… (+7 CP)
