Analyse a sample of mud

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From: The Scene of the Crime


The Detective kneels down next to a half-footprint. "Look – this isn't Marsh-mud. I'll bet our culprit tracked this in from elsewhere."

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Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 14 (50% base)

  • 10 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 11 - high-risk (20%)
  • 12 - high-risk (30%)
  • 13 - tough (40%)
  • 14 - very chancy (50%)
  • 15 - chancy (60%)
  • 16 - modest (70%)
  • 17 - very modest (80%)
  • 18 - low-risk (90%)
  • 19 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

All this from a patch of mud

At no point do either of you propose a deduction competition out loud, but that is what it turns into. […] She pokes it. You prod it. You isolate a tiny dot […] zee-zalt, and lamp oil, and coal dust.

[…] Looks like our culprit came here from Wolfstack."

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Redirects to: The Scene of the Crime


Failure

Yuergh

[…] Eventually you throw caution to the wind […] subject it to what scientists call 'the lick test'.

[…] "But don't do it again. From what I could tell before you contaminated the evidence, the mud hails from Wolfstack Docks."

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

Redirects to: The Scene of the Crime