...is in a spot of academic trouble
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From: The Analgesic Rhetorician...
The Dean of Supernumerary Faculty is getting quite agitated in his direction. Best intervene before the Dean finds his sherry.
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Time Remaining... exactly 5
Challenge information
- 79 - very chancy (41%)
- 98 - chancy (51%)
- 117 - modest (61%)
- 137 - very modest (71%)
- 156 - low-risk (81%)
- 175 - straightforward (91%)
- 192 - straightforward (100%)
Success
"Would you regard your work as essential?"
The Rhetorician is [...] probing at the accuracy of the Dean's title. You sidle up [...] to interrupt a [...] dialogue in which the Rhetorician is a hair away from provoking the Dean into admitting that neither his responsibilities nor his faculty are [...] supernumerary.
Watchful is increasing…
You've gained 1 x Compromising Document
Connected: Benthic is increasing… (+5 CP)- Connected: Summerset is increasing… (+5 CP)
You've lost 1 x Time Remaining...
Failure
"The quality of your scholarship leaves much to be desired!"
You cannot quite ascertain what the Rhetorician said to the Dean to cause him such upset. When you ask [...], he launches into a oblique parable [...]. When you ask the Dean, he shivers, and plucks two more glasses of sherry from a side table. Then [...], a third.
- Watchful is increasing…
Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)- You've lost 1 x Time Remaining...
