Disentangle the red tape

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From: Scrutinise Infernal Contracts


A bespectacled devil locks you into a stifling, windowless room, stacked with reams of ribbon-tied parchment. Well, it looks like parchment. Somewhat oily parchment, perhaps, and occasionally tattooed.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 51

  • 35 - very chancy (41%)
  • 44 - chancy (51%)
  • 52 - modest (61%)
  • 61 - very modest (71%)
  • 69 - low-risk (81%)
  • 78 - straightforward (91%)
  • 85 - straightforward (100%)

Success

adultery, arsenic poisoning, arson...

'For details on completing form b7124 (autocannibalism), please read guidelines on form X987ii (victimless crime). Please note that[…]'

[…] grim[…] but fascinating.[…] a few intriguing titbits[…] and several[…] hushed-up crimes[…]

[…]keep these secrets in lieu of payment.

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Failure

Hell is other people's handwriting

The combination of horror and extreme petty-mindedness, all rendered in spidery red ink, makes your head swim […] There's no air in here! You can't breathe! […] admit defeat. A sniggering succubus from the secretarial pool escorts you to the rear exit.

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