Duel the ringleaders: attempt to survive unscathed

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From: A Bad Case of Rattus Faber


Impressed by your tenacity, the ratty ringleaders challenge you to duel them. Of course, a rat-duel is a series of savage ambushes. Their inventiveness is equalled only by their savagery. Be wary.

Unlocked with Troubled by Vermin 5 - 17, The Airs of London 0 - 40


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 24

  • 17 - very chancy (42%)
  • 21 - chancy (52%)
  • 25 - modest (62%)
  • 29 - very modest (72%)
  • 33 - low-risk (82%)
  • 37 - straightforward (92%)
  • 40 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Sworn

This one was hiding in your pillow with an ether-soaked napkin and an ear-drill. Fortunately, you are in the habit of distressing your pillow thoroughly with a poker before sleep […]

The rat dies […] You note the cruel patterns cut into its fur […]

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Rare Success

A midnight ambush!

A squad of rat-murderers swing down from the ceiling on a tiny rope as you sleep, to stab you in the eye with poisoned needles. But you are alert to their wickedness! You seize them and wring the life from them.


Failure

A wary stalemate

Pistol attacks when you bathe! Rusty upturned nails on the privy seat! The vermin even put poison in your cheese! Which must be some sort of ironic rat-joke. You survive them all, more or less.