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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Persuasive is increasing…
An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: Light Fingers!' Quality is now 50!
With Ambition: Light Fingers! 49:
An occurrence! Your 'Remembering the Orphanage' Quality is now 1 - Haunted by Flames!
With Ambition: Light Fingers! 48:
- An occurrence! Your 'Remembering the Orphanage' Quality is now 2 - Haunted by the Mob's Howls!
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?
- Persuasive is increasing…
Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
