Be cruel

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From: What Will you do About the Cloistered Diatomist?


Perhaps it's just to make sure the parting sticks. But you'll certainly ensure that he'll cease monopolising your time.

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Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 16

  • 11 - very chancy (41%)
  • 14 - chancy (52%)
  • 17 - modest (63%)
  • 19 - very modest (71%)
  • 22 - low-risk (82%)
  • 25 - straightforward (93%)
  • 27 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Cut to the quick

He is slow to accept that your relationship was a mere tool […] You proved your ability to infiltrate an elusive social sphere […] His friendship boosted your social cachet; the same action removed the last vestiges of his own.

He does not leave quietly. […]

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Failure

Unfazed

If he is wounded by the declaration that you sought his friendship only to prove yourself in society, he does not show it. […] It would never occur to me that one could become the height of society by merely avoiding it." He […] nods a farewell […]

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