(Investigate Mr Fires' schemes)
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From: Intervene in Civic Affairs
Description summary:
This action's title and description vary based on your knowledge of 
The Scheme of a Phoenix.
| Scheme | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0 - 8 | Infiltrate Mr Fires' schemes in the hinterlands | There is a great deal going on in Station VIII. Mr Fires still attends to that, even if it ignores the Tracklayers now. |
| 9 | Check for signs of the Order of the Hollow Earth down here | It's always useful knowing something Mr Fires wants to know. Either you can tell it, or you can make sure it never finds out. |
| 10 | Keep a close eye on visitors in case any are Surface spies | You have become suspicious of them. Odds are they're becoming suspicious of you as well. |
| 11 | Keep a close eye on visitors in case any are American industrialists | If anyone is laying plans for the Neath's labour force, they might well take an interest in local unions. |
| 12 - 14, 30+ | Further infiltrate Mr Fires' schemes in the hinterlands | You've learned enough of the Scheme of the Phoenix that there is no more to study in the city, but it is still useful to know what Mr Fires is up to. |
| 20 - 25 | Keep a sharp eye on Mr Fires' actions now it knows about the Scheme of the Phoenix | When playing both sides of the game, it's best to keep an eye on all the pieces. |
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Game Instructions: This will neither raise nor lower The City Waning.
Challenge information
- 123 - very chancy (41%)
- 153 - chancy (51%)
- 183 - modest (61%)
- 213 - very modest (71%)
- 244 - low-risk (81%)
- 273 - straightforward (91%)
- 300 - straightforward (100%)
Narrow, 
Zeefaring 5 (50% base)
- 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 2 - high-risk (20%)
- 3 - high-risk (30%)
- 4 - tough (40%)
- 5 - very chancy (50%)
- 6 - chancy (60%)
- 7 - modest (70%)
- 8 - very modest (80%)
- 9 - low-risk (90%)
- 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Fair enough
Description summary:
The description varies based on your knowledge of The Scheme of a Phoenix.
| Scheme | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 - 8, 12 - 14, 30+ | Your lackey puts you to work […] materials bribed or borrowed or flatly stolen from the Tracklayers […] anything […] that shows a prehistoricist's enthusiasm for Shames […] pick out […] and throw away.
"Mr Fires thinks Mr Wines is brewing the wrong things […]" says the Lackey […] |
| 9 | You catch a rather cagey scientist [...] trying to find out as much as he can about the transport of cities [...] He knows well enough that he can't stay in the Neath long, but he's made efficient work [...]: is that an Admiralty dossier poking out of his suitcase? |
| 10 | Your net captures two Ottoman agents, one French agent, and one mercenary [...] All four [...] materialised because they heard of the new city formed from nothing, and it spooked them. [...]
You take all the information you can get off them and you send them packing [...] |
| 11 | The woman comes with diagrams. So many workers to a bench, so many benches to a room [...] She has some pamphlets, too, preaching the value of this labour scheme [...] Once the locals find out what she wants to do, however, they chase her out of town [...] |
| 20 - 25 |
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Watchful is increasing…
Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
You've gained (220 + 
Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity
Failure
Not quite the thing
Description summary:
The description varies based on your knowledge of The Scheme of a Phoenix.
| Scheme | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 - 8, 12 - 14, 30+ | You try to collect materials to send to Station VIII, but unsuccessfully. No one wants to part with their memorabilia [...] and [...] you can't give a strong enough account of why you want it. Not without mentioning the Masters, anyway. |
| 9 | You only catch a rather junior occultist who chatters on about Thoth and Anubis being buried in the Neath. |
| 10 | That wasn't a spy. That was a smuggler, and one under the Gracious Widow's protection. While you can hold your own, it's a good idea not to pick any extra fights by accident. |
| 11 | That wasn't an American, that was an Australian. Tracklayers have a very unreliable ear for Surface accents. |
| 20 - 25 |
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- Watchful is increasing…
- Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)
