'The Unknown Unknown'

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ID: 255659

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From: The Business of a Licentiate

The alias does not refer to a known individual, but to one merely hypothetical: an agent with particular feelings, who must have committed a particular move in the Great Game.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 50-70, Discovered the Factory VIII Laboratory

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 140

• 96 - very chancy (41%)
• 119 - chancy (51%)
• 143 - modest (61%)
• 166 - very modest (71%)
• 189 - low-risk (81%)
• 213 - straightforward (91%)
• 234 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 10 (50% base)

• 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 7 - high-risk (20%)
• 8 - high-risk (30%)
• 9 - tough (40%)
• 10 - very chancy (50%)
• 11 - chancy (60%)
• 12 - modest (70%)
• 13 - very modest (80%)
• 14 - low-risk (90%)
• 15 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Promiscuous poisoning

It takes a sweaty, acrid night [...] You have to employ [...] esoteric extractive techniques [...] to get the triggering compounds just right [...]

You distribute the compound at Wilmot's End. Widely [...] You don't receive confirmation of your success until payment arrives [...]

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Services Rendered: The Great Game
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 410 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Mysterious Client Attention Odds (hidden)

Depending on Mysterious Client Attention Odds:

•  An interested party has made a request on your skills. (Sets Attracting the Attention of a Mysterious Client to 1)

Failure

Lessons unlearned

Either a great many of the spies in Wilmot's End were plotting the downfall of Buenos Aires, or your mixture was insufficiently discriminating. A dozen spy networks have to reconstitute themselves to cover the sudden gap in their agents.

• Shadowy is increasing…

•  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)

• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)

•  You've gained 200 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies