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ID: 264543

Spoiler warning! This page contains details about Fallen London Actions.

From: Merely Passing Through

The visitors tend to recognise you. Why not answer their questions, and spin the tale of the Royal amongst commoners?

Game Instructions: The greater your Worker in a Common Cause, the more easily this will go.

Unlocked with Newly-Cast Crown of the City of London

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 180

• 123 - very chancy (41%)
• 153 - chancy (51%)
• 183 - modest (61%)
• 213 - very modest (71%)
• 244 - low-risk (81%)
• 273 - straightforward (91%)
• 300 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of A Worker in the Common Cause reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.

Success

A day in the life

You speak of work shifts [Working] and convivial evenings at [Pub]. Your listeners drink it in. A journalist with a messy bun makes notes in her notebook. No doubt there will soon be another, even more glorious profile of you in the London magazines.

[…]

Description summary:
The nature of the work varies based on the city's Official Alignment, while the name of the pub varies based on the city's Official Alignment and Founding Body, and the second paragraph varies based on your level of A Worker in the Common Cause.

Alignment	Work
Liberationist Radical Liberationist Emancipationist-Liberationist	law-decomposing
Liberationist-Prehistoricist	peligination
Prehistoricist Radical Prehistoricist	lab-sanitising
Prehistoricist-Emancipationist	mammoth-feeding
Emancipationist Radical Emancipationist	fungal stock-taking
Anti-Liberationist	lamp-lighting
Anti-Prehistoricist	vermin-eradicating
Anti-Emanipationist	manifesto-delivering
Mixed	consensus-building
Balanced	attitude-balancing
Complacently Unrevolutionary	coin-stamping
Unknown

Foundation	Pub Name
Alignment	Furnace	Furnace, Starved	Cornelius	Your Double	Manager’s Double
Liberationist	The Dark Lamp	The Attenuated Swan	The Peligin Hart	The Crown and Anchoress	The Black Lens
Radical Liberationist
Liberationist-Prehistoricist
Prehistoricist	The Triple Bird	The Pallid Hound	The Mammoth and Castle	The Marrow	The Clay Raptor
Radical Prehistoricist
Prehistoricist-Emancipationist
Emancipationist	The Beehive	The Enervated Hart	The Staff and Skeleton	The Butcher's Table	The Rose and Horned Crown
Radical Emancipationist
Emancipationist-Liberationist
Anti-Liberationist	The Boiled Swan	The Elongated Lion	The Frost-Moth	The Black King	The Fidgeting Mermaid
Anti-Prehistoricist
Anti-Emancipationist
Mixed
Balanced				The Red King
Complacently Unrevolutionary				The White King
Unknown

Worker	Second Paragraph
1	Perhaps you generally take the largest house you can, and maybe you stay away from the more humiliating tasks. But these are tourists! They don't need to know that. And if they did know it, they would still not expect anything else [...]
25	The stories have the merit of truth. You are as admired here as you are in London; but here, you are admired as one of their own.

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Making Waves is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

The visitors are agog

The local citizens, unfortunately, are less convinced. There's a great deal of scoffing laughter when you make your claim.

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2? CP)
• [Airs of Passengers change…] (random) (hidden)