Cajole your (growth) into action

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From: Vertiginous Horticulture


They say that talking to plants can help them grow. Well, yours better bl__dy well listen up, because you've got some stern words.

Description summary:
The title varies with Rooftop Growth.

Rooftop Growth:Growth
1: Singular Cuttingssingular cuttings
2: 'Dawn-Yodeller' Mandrakesmandrakes
3: Prize-Winning Peppercapspeppercaps
4: Recusant Marigoldsmarigolds
5: False-Cantigaster Hybridspoisonous hybrids
6: Millennium Rosesjewelled roses
7: Tomorrowspore Ortcapsortcaps

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

Unlocked with The Airs of London 67-100, Nurturing a Rooftop Growth 1-150


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 80

  • 55 - very chancy (41%)
  • 68 - chancy (51%)
  • 82 - modest (61%)
  • 95 - very modest (71%)
  • 108 - low-risk (81%)
  • 122 - straightforward (91%)
  • 134 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Rooftop Growth, Difficulty: increases the base difficulty by 5 points.

Success

[See table]

Can [Growth] feel shame? Or peer pressure? Do they understand the concept of threats? It seems so. In the hours following your insults, they grow quickly and desperately. The Sneering Horticulturalist sniffs in disapproval.

Description summary:
The success title varies with The Airs of London. Wiki note: Numbers unaccounted for: 0

The Airs of LondonSuccess title
1 - 10"I've seen seeds with more vigour than you!"
11 - 20"Call that a bloom?"
21 - 30"I've had bruises that blossomed more impressively!"
31 - 40"Don't make me fetch the secateurs!"
41 - 50"You're embarrassing me in front of the urchins!"
51 - 60"It's a long drop to street level in a flowerpot."
61 - 70"I've pruned things for less."
71 - 80"Should I fetch the trowel?"
81 - 90"I'll show you an unnatural habitat you glorified weed!"
91 - 100"I'd rather grow a weed."

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Rare Success

[See table]

A gaggle of urchins from the Knotted Sock hear you berating your [growth type] and think that it sounds like jolly good fun. Soon enough your [Growth] are the subject of all the encouragement any organism could hope for.

[...]

Description summary:
The success title varies with The Airs of London. The first paragraph descriptions of growth type and growth use Rooftop Growth, Classification: and Rooftop Growth. The second paragraph is the same as the regular success description.

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

Rooftop Growth:Growth
1: Singular Cuttingssingular cuttings
2: 'Dawn-Yodeller' Mandrakesmandrakes
3: Prize-Winning Peppercapspeppercaps
4: Recusant Marigoldsmarigolds
5: False-Cantigaster Hybridspoisonous hybrids
6: Millennium Rosesjewelled roses
7: Tomorrowspore Ortcapsortcaps


Failure

"Call that a bloom?"

Either [Growth] do not understand shame or threats, or you simply do not scare them. You wait. You cajole some more. Nothing: they resolutely, petulantly, refuse to grow.