Ask the Implacable Detective to sponsor you

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From: Join the Dilmun Club!


You've seen her at Dilmun Club social events, and she knows who you are. Buttonhole her on her way into a meeting.

Game Instructions: Succeed or fail, you will lose the Business Card.

Unlocked with A Person of Some Importance -, 1 x Implacable Detective's Business Card


Challenge information

Narrow, Respectable 5 (50% base)

  • 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 2 - high-risk (20%)
  • 3 - high-risk (30%)
  • 4 - tough (40%)
  • 5 - very chancy (50%)
  • 6 - chancy (60%)
  • 7 - modest (70%)
  • 8 - very modest (80%)
  • 9 - low-risk (90%)
  • 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

"Very well."

[…] "I am quite confident you're the right sort," she says. "And you found a way into the Museum. I will sponsor you. […]" You are subjected to a flurry of handshakes, and receive a shiny new pin for your lapel. […]

Description summary:
The Implacable Detective considers you, and decides you are a worthy sort. You are led inside before a group of people in a room with a huge glass cube painted black. There are a whirlwind of introductions, and then you are escorted out with the promise that they will be in touch soon. It was so fast you didn't have time to consider how quickly they accepted you.

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

Wiki note: This starts a living story. The player will be invited to A meeting of the Dilmun Club roughly a day after this choice.


Failure

"Well, now."

The Implacable Detective takes her own business card from you and peers at it. "Yes," she says. "Much as I would like to help, I fear you yet lack a certain... quality we require." Then she totters off into the house, […]

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

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