A Sudden Shadow!

ID: 335284

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Why, you can hardly walk through London these days without being accosted by a longshanks brandishing a knife.

Game Instructions: An acquaintance you slighted has retaliated! All options on this card will reduce your Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe quality.

Unlocked with Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe

Card drawn in Fallen London

Occurs with Abundant Frequency (5 x as common as Standard)

Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.

Options:

Fight him off

•  Spoiler ID: 246101
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Dangerous 171 || 117 - very chancy (41%) || 146 - chancy (51%) || 174 - modest (61%) || 203 - very modest (71%) || 231 - low-risk (81%) || 260 - straightforward (91%) || 285 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Challenge difficulty is 0.9 × Base Dangerous. Value shown is for Dangerous of 190 before equipment modifiers.

  Success

  A scuffle

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  Dangerous is increasing… (+2 to +50 CP, up to level 200 + Dangerous Gains)
  •  You've gained 1 x Nodule of Trembling Amber
  •  You've gained 1 x Memento of Violence

  Failure

  Bleeding

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  Dangerous is increasing… (+? CP, up to level 200 + Dangerous Gains)
  •  You've gained 50 x Surface-Silk Scrap
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+6 CP)

  ^

Shift your organs out of the way

•  Spoiler ID: 246102
  

  Unlocked with Shapeling Arts
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Shapeling Arts 7 (50% base) || 3 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 4 - high-risk (20%) || 5 - high-risk (30%) || 6 - tough (40%) || 7 - very chancy (50%) || 8 - chancy (60%) || 9 - modest (70%) || 10 - very modest (80%) || 11 - low-risk (90%) || 12 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  A squirming

  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  You've gained 1 x Ivory Humerus
  •  Shapeling Arts is increasing… (+1 CP, if present, up to level 5 + Shapeling Studies)

  Failure

  A lot of squirming

  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  You've gained 500 x Bone Fragments
  •  Shapeling Arts is increasing… (+1 CP, if present, up to level 5 + Shapeling Studies)
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1-7? CP)

  ^

Allow yourself to be stabbed (No Horsehead Amulet)

•  Spoiler ID: 246103
  

  Locked with Horsehead Amulet
  

   

  Success

  Ow

  • You have moved to a new area: a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river
  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Wounds' Quality is now 8 - The Spirit has Departed!

  ^

Allow yourself to be stabbed (Horsehead Amulet)

•  Spoiler ID: 253663
  

  Unlocked with 1 x Horsehead Amulet
  

   

  Success

  Ow

  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Wounds' Quality is now 8 - The Spirit has Departed!

  Redirects to: Something convulses violently against your chest

  ^