Editing Round 9/Ruleset (section)

=== Scouting ===
During a voting period, a player can send a duck on a scouting mission by rolling a d12 for the duck.

The number rolled on the d12  to commence the scouting mission is the potential quacks. If the duck returns, the duck will have this number of potential quacks added to their existing quacks. For a player's duck to return, the player must wait until after the end of the voting period the duck was sent on the mission. Then the player can then roll a retrieval d12 roll to attempt to retrieve the duck. If the retrieval roll is greater than or equal to the number of potential quacks determined upon the duck's departure, the duck returns. If the duck does not return, its potential quacks decreases by 1, to a minimum of 1. When the player attepts to retrieve the duck, the player may choose to cut their losses by posting their intent in #game-actions. The duck's potential quacks become 1, and the duck returns without requiring a retrieval roll. Only one attempt to retrieve any given duck can be made in any given voting period. Upon return, the potential quacks are added to the returning duck's total quacks and benefits and costs the duck provides to the player are unpaused. If the roll to retrieve the duck is 12 or higher, the owner of the duck will obtain a new duck along with their existing duck. 

Each time that a duck returns without its owner cutting their losses, its owner can once roll a d20 and obtain the corresponding item(s) on the following loot table:

{| class="wikitable"
| 1-4 || 2d6 seeds
|-
| 5-6 || 1 Grapes
|-
| 7-8 || 1 Watermelon Slice
|-
| 9 || 1 Blood Orange
|-
| 10 || 1 Mango Slice
|-
| 11-20 || 1 Abundant Nothing
|}