Bring a spade and shuttered lantern to the graveyard

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From: Ambition: Light Fingers! 7


This will be difficult. The churchyard is well lit and it's just off a busy street. And not all the occupants of all the graves may be entirely dead.


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 42

  • 29 - very chancy (41%)
  • 36 - chancy (51%)
  • 43 - modest (61%)
  • 50 - very modest (71%)
  • 57 - low-risk (81%)
  • 64 - straightforward (91%)
  • 70 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Your spade strikes wood

A cheap coffin. […] very small one. […] an infant's grave...

[…] Tangled in the neckbones is a locket on a brass chain. You snatch it […]

[…] The picture within is […] of your contact, the Fading Music-Hall Singer. Was this her child? […]

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


Failure

Your spade strikes wood

There is a strangled cry of outrage, and a rotting, bony hand […] grabs the blade of your spade. […] you […] scramble to safety, hastily filling in the hole. […] you hear a muffled […] "keep the noise down!"

You look around. […] you've probably been digging in the wrong place.

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