Attempt to rob the Calculating Lapidary's vault

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From: Licensed by Mr Stones

You'll need a distraction, a precious gemstone, the right tools, and the right identity.

Game Instructions: Upon success, you will lose every item required for the job. Upon failure, your sapphire and the qualities for your Cover Identity will not be lost, but you will still lose the rat and kifers.

Unlocked with Hurlers Commercial Development exactly 3, Master Thief 10, Cover Identity: Ties Bazaar, Cover Identity: Elaboration 5, Cover Identity: Nuance 5, Cover Identity: Witnesses 5, Cover Identity: Credentials 5, Cover Identity: Backstory 10, Sapphire, Talkative Rattus Faber, Set of Kifers

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 1000

• 684 - very chancy (41%)
• 850 - chancy (51%)
• 1017 - modest (61%)
• 1184 - very modest (71%)
• 1350 - low-risk (81%)
• 1517 - straightforward (91%)
• 1667 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Cracked

This lock was personally built by Mr Stones […] the proof it requires is blood […]

You let it drink its fill […]

[…] other locks still need to be picked […] The vault swings open […]

You have diamonds […] and a document […] before you realise the lock isn't done drinking […]

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
• You have moved to a new area: a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river
•  An occurrence! Your 'Wounds' Quality is now 8 - The Spirit has Departed!
•  Your 'Cover Identity: Backstory' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Cover Identity: Credentials' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Cover Identity: Elaboration' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Cover Identity: Nuance' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Cover Identity: Ties' Quality has gone!
•  Your 'Cover Identity: Witnesses' Quality has gone!
•  You've lost 1 x Talkative Rattus Faber
•  You've lost 1 x Sapphire
•  You've lost 1 x Set of Kifers
•  You've gained 15 x Ostentatious Diamond
•  You've gained 1000 x Flawed Diamond
•  You've gained 1 x Hideous Promissory Note
•  You've robbed the trading post. (Sets Hurlers Commercial Development to 4)
•  You've gained 2 x Favours: Criminals (up to 7) (if you had 5 or lower)
•  You've gained 1 x Fabricator of Past Lives

Failure

Caught in the Act

The Calculating Lapidary isn't convinced that your Talkative Rattus Faber is the brains behind this operation. Not even when you shove your Set of Kifers into the rat's paw […] it might have helped if the Talkative Rattus Faber hadn't chipped in […]

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  Suspicion is increasing… (+5 CP)
•  You've lost 1 x Talkative Rattus Faber
•  You've lost 1 x Set of Kifers