An especial appetite
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From: Literary Ambitions
Action Cost: 2
A tomb-colonist! One of the bandaged dead, visiting London on dusty and peculiar business. "An epitaph," she hisses. "Something to carve above my front door. Something in the manner of Pope. Augustan, do you know? A pastiche."
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The Airs of London 91
Challenge information
Broad, 
Persuasive 7
- 5 - very chancy (42%)
- 6 - chancy (51%)
- 8 - modest (68%)
- 9 - very modest (77%)
- 10 - low-risk (85%)
- 11 - straightforward (94%)
- 12 - straightforward (100%)
Success
You do know, as it happens
Heroic couplets and a pastoral theme. You bang it out in a couple of hours over a half-bottle of Greyfields. Your patron might smile: or perhaps her skull is tenanted by worms. It's hard to be sure. Her gold is icy cold, but it spends as well as any.
Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 35 x Piece of Rostygold
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Failure
You do know, but...
...pastiching another poet, of however beloved memory, is a tiresome task. You are seized by inspiration and veer into originality. […] "No," she hisses. "If I had wanted innovation, I would have left him his tongue." Who? What? […]
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