The Abyssal Depths

The The Abyssal Depths are part of the Bag A Legend Ambition. There is no access to the Bazaar here.


Opportunity Cards:


There are only 3 opportunity cards, making a 4th slot useless.

Listen…

Your eyes are useless to you here…

What do you hear?

Dripping stalactites and… something else?
Unlocked with Hearing Things…or are you? 3
A Hearing Things…or are you? challenge, chancy at 4

Scrabble around…

You can't see a thing…Where are you standing? What did you just step on?

Carefully now

Is there something on the cavern floor?
A matter of luck: it could go either way.

Use your Mandrake…

is the damned thing really any use?
Throw it into the dark
Perhaps it will lure the Vake. But you'll never find it again in the blackness.
Unlocked with Half-Wild Mandrake 1


Ambition actions


Someone is giggling

A match flares in the darkness…
Unlocked with Ambition: Bag a Legend! 30

Someone is giggling

A match flares in the darkness.
It is the Scarred Naturalist, of course, but his face has changed. It is… loose. It hangs askew like an ill-tailored waistcoat. In the guttering match flame, what you took for scarring is revealed as patchwork. You cannot help but notice that he has a splendid new moustache.
"The Vake will be here soon," he says, in a voice quite unlike the fusty professorial tone that you are used to. "In the meantime, what shall we talk about?"

Option 1: Swing for him

He was standing right there!
Unlocked with Dangerous 76
Dangerous challenge, Low risk at 82

Option 2: Listen to what he has to say

Perhaps he has some answers. And if not, the more he speaks, the easier it will be to get a fix on the double-crossing fiend.
A matter of luck: the odds are against you here.


The voice of the Vake

Something scrabbles on the stones and stirs the air with heavy wings…
Unlocked with Ambition: Bag a Legend! 31

The voice of the Vake

Something scrabbles on the stones and stirs the air with heavy wings. Something hisses in the dark. A repulsive smell of blood and guano fills your nose. The Vake: at last. But you still can't see the bloody thing.
A voice, squeaky and gritty and incredibly loud, slices through the dark.
"HUNTER MINE! QUARRY! IN STONE! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! MY SERVANT! SNUFFER! PERFORATED! DEFACED! SPILLED! AS WINE! POWER! IN YOU! NO MATTER! NONE! I CAN FIND! ANOTHER! SLAVE! (MMM! SANDALWOOD!) WHEN! YOU ARE! DISPOSED! DIVIDED! DIGESTED! PREPARE NOW! HUNTER! I AM COMING! I! HAVE! CLAWS! FOR! YOU!"
There is more, much more. An agonising nonsense shriek-of-consciousness that scrapes your nerves, and even as it yammers on, you feel the rock beneath your feet begin to tremble and the air grow hot as the Vake charges screaming towards you.

Option 1: Anticipate

You have flown with the Vake in its dreams. You know how it thinks. If you trust your instincts, you may be able to predict its attacks.
Unlocked with Hearing Things…or are you? 4
Hearing Things…or are you? 4 challenge, Chancy at 7

Option 2: Stand your ground!

It wants a fight? Very well then.
Unlocked with Dangerous 76
Dangerous challenge, chancy at 82


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