Editing (Investigate Mr Fires' schemes)

{{Action
|ID = 263638
|Icon = master.png
|From Card title = Intervene in Civic Affairs
|Description summary = This action's title and description vary based on your knowledge of {{IL|The Scheme of a Phoenix}}.
{{Variant table|Condition = The Scheme of a Phoenix|Condition alias = Scheme|Effect = Title|Second effect = Description|Compact = yes
|Value 0 - 8 = '''Infiltrate Mr Fires' schemes in the hinterlands'''
|Second effect 0 - 8 = There is a great deal going on in Station VIII. Mr Fires still attends to that, even if it ignores the Tracklayers now.
|Value 9 = '''Check for signs of the Order of the Hollow Earth down here'''
|Second effect 9 = 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.
|Value 10 = '''Keep a close eye on visitors in case any are Surface spies'''
|Second effect 10 = You have become suspicious of them. Odds are they're becoming suspicious of you as well.
|Value 11 = '''Keep a close eye on visitors in case any are American industrialists'''
|Second effect 11 = If anyone is laying plans for the Neath's labour force, they might well take an interest in local unions.
|Value 12+ = '''Further infiltrate Mr Fires' schemes in the hinterlands'''
|Second effect 12+ = 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.
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|Game Instructions = This will neither raise nor lower The City Waning.
|NarrowQuality = Zeefaring
|NarrowDiff = 5
|BroadQuality = Watchful
|BroadDiff = 180
|Success title = Fair enough
|Success summary = The description varies based on your knowledge of {{IL|The Scheme of a Phoenix}}.
{{Variant table|Condition = The Scheme of a Phoenix|Condition alias = Scheme|Effect = Description|Compact = yes
|Value 0 - 8, 12+ = 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 {{...}}
|Value 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?
|Value 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 [...]
|Value 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 [...]
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*{{Success Increase|Watchful}}
*{{Gain|Habituated to the Hinterland|+1 CP}}
*{{Gain|Hinterland Prosperity|(220 + {{Use|Hinterland Efficiency|Appearance=Efficiency|Type = Math}}) x}}

{{Failure
|Failure title = Not quite the thing
|Failure summary = The description varies based on your knowledge of {{IL|The Scheme of a Phoenix}}.
{{Variant table|Condition = The Scheme of a Phoenix|Condition alias = Scheme|Effect = Description|Compact = yes
|Value 0 - 8, 12+ = 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.
|Value 9 = You only catch a rather junior occultist who chatters on about Thoth and Anubis being buried in the Neath.
|Value 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.
|Value 11 = That wasn't an American, that was an Australian. Tracklayers have a very unreliable ear for Surface accents.
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*{{Failure Increase|Watchful}}
*{{Gain|Habituated to the Hinterland|+1 CP}}
*{{Gain|Tracklayers' Displeasure|+2 CP}}