Sit down next to Mr Apples

ID: 7946

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From: Tiles and a Yacht

An honest game of skill and chance with a Master of the Bazaar, a defrocked priest and a tiger.

Game Instructions: If you fail, you'll lose one-fifth of your entire stake!

Unlocked with 5 x Comprehensive Bribe, 5 x Favour in High Places, 5 x Cellar of Wine, 5000 x Nodule of Deep Amber

Locked with The Heart

Wiki note: You need to succeed in both quality challenges and also in the luck challenge.

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 80

• 55 - very chancy (41%)
• 68 - chancy (51%)
• 82 - modest (61%)
• 95 - very modest (71%)
• 108 - low-risk (81%)
• 122 - straightforward (91%)
• 134 - straightforward (100%)
  

A matter of luck: The odds are strongly against you here (success chance: 30%)

Broad, Watchful 80

• 55 - very chancy (41%)
• 68 - chancy (51%)
• 82 - modest (61%)
• 95 - very modest (71%)
• 108 - low-risk (81%)
• 122 - straightforward (91%)
• 134 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Yours!

[…] You've lost track of time. You've been playing for days. […] You suggest a final hand […] Mr Apples stakes its ship. You pick your tiles and... Heaven's Bounty. Even Mr Apples can't believe it. […] That's it. You have the finest ship afloat. […]

Description summary:
The game goes on for days. You lose badly. Eventually you offer a new stake - your service to Mr Apples for a year against his yacht. Luckily, you win.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

Success Instructions: If this is your first ship, you will have unlocked a new Addressed As title. This can be selected via 'The Roof-Tops: Urchins' Opportunity Card.

• Watchful is increasing…
• Persuasive is increasing…
• You have a new Accomplishment... An Explorer of the Unterzee -!
•  An occurrence! Your 'Majestic Pleasure Yacht' Quality is now 1!
• Your 'Acquiring a Ship' Quality has gone!
• You've lost 5 x Cellar of Wine
• You've lost 5 x Favour in High Places
• You've lost 5 x Comprehensive Bribe

Failure

Not a trace of a ship

The tiger plays for quick, dirty wins, even when he has a paw full of dragons. The priest manages to gather plum blossom from the roof twice in a row. […] Your hand of thirteen unique wonders isn't that unique and fails to number thirteen. […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Watchful is increasing…
• Persuasive is increasing…
• You've lost 1000 x Nodule of Deep Amber
• You've lost 1 x Cellar of Wine
• You've lost 1 x Favour in High Places
• You've lost 1 x Comprehensive Bribe