Ask the Chandleress about the rat-catchers' traditions

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From: The Chandleress' Complaint


Why won't they hunt flying things?


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 10

  • 7 - very chancy (42%)
  • 9 - chancy (54%)
  • 11 - modest (66%)
  • 12 - very modest (72%)
  • 14 - low-risk (84%)
  • 16 - straightforward (96%)
  • 17 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A hoard of supposition

"They say they smell of Eden. Rat-catchers are superstitious...religious, even. […] they say that the rat-catcher who kills a flying thing will never taste the airs of Heaven." She makes a face. "For all I know they're right. But it doesn't help me."

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Failure

Not for your ears

I don't know," she says, quite abruptly. "Perhaps you should ask them."