A burden

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From: Ambition: Light Fingers! - Taking Care of Clarabelle


Whatever happened to the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer and Poor Edward will have to wait. Clarabelle's belly is big enough that […] giving birth would kill her. You need to find […] help. […] you need someone who can care for her while you're looking.

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Unlocked with Ambition: Light Fingers! 48-49


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 127

  • 87 - very chancy (41%)
  • 108 - chancy (51%)
  • 130 - modest (61%)
  • 151 - very modest (71%)
  • 172 - low-risk (81%)
  • 193 - straightforward (91%)
  • 212 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Taking care

Clarabelle […] forget her greatest desire - her synthetic love for the Orphanage. […] "Well that don't look human. Best be off to Dr. Vaughan. She's at the University."

[…] You sometimes see rippling movements under the skin of her belly.[…]

Description summary:
Clarabelle sleeps and the Lethean tea makes her forget. You wonder what her old self was like. The last nurse you find points you to the university.

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With Ambition: Light Fingers! 49:

With Ambition: Light Fingers! 48:


Failure

All alone

Hephaesta is nowhere to be found. A trickle of nurses, midwives and physicians comes your door, and leaves again in short order, panicked. You grow heartily tired of the word 'unnatural'. Will nobody help this poor woman?