Cat and Mouse: an Elusive Target
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Game Instructions: Gain 50 Cat before your Mouse reaches 1. You can trust your luck, or spend resources to be sure of it. But the longer you wait, the more expensive it gets...
Unlocked with 
Playing Cat and Mouse with an Evasive Target 4–6, 
Mouse: So Little Time 2
Storylet appears in 
Ladybones Road
Mouse: So Little Time 7-10
Early days: follow your nose (
pretty good odds: +5 Cat)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Cat: Getting Warmer 1, Mouse: So Little Time 7-10
Challenge information
A matter of luck: Pretty good odds (success chance: 70%)Success
Hints and whispers
You've gained 5 x Cat: Getting Warmer
You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
Failure
Lost hours
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
Early days: play it safe (
50 Whispered Hint: +5 Cat)
- Spoiler Action Cost: 2
Unlocked with
50 x Whispered Hint, Mouse: So Little Time 7-10, Cat: Getting Warmer 1
Success
The rumour trade
- You've gained 5 x Cat: Getting Warmer
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
You've lost 50 x Whispered Hint
- If chasing An Absentee Aunt:
Pursue the Aunt among honey-dealers (
80 Prisoner's Honey: +10 Cat for -2 Time)
- Spoiler Action Cost: 2
Unlocked with
80 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey, Cat: Getting Warmer 1, Mouse: So Little Time 7-10, Playing Cat and Mouse with an Evasive Target exactly 4
Success
A certain nervousness
You've lost 80 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey- You've gained 10 x Cat: Getting Warmer
- You've lost 2 x Mouse: So Little Time
- If chasing An Eccentric Burglar:
Ask after the Eccentric Burglar in high places (
1 x Favours: Society: +10 Cat for -2 Time)
- Spoiler Action Cost: 2
Unlocked with Playing Cat and Mouse with an Evasive Target exactly 5, Mouse: So Little Time 7-10, Cat: Getting Warmer 1, 
1 x Favours: Society
Success
Skeins of nonsense, pearls of truth
- You've lost 2 x Mouse: So Little Time
- You've gained 10 x Cat: Getting Warmer
You've lost 1 x Favours: Society
Mouse: So Little Time 3–6
Time is passing: follow your nose ( pretty good odds: +8 Cat)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Mouse: So Little Time 3-6, Cat: Getting Warmer 1
Challenge information
A matter of luck: Pretty good odds (success chance: 70%)Success
Closer and closer
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
- You've gained 8 x Cat: Getting Warmer
Failure
Stonewalled
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
Time is passing: play it safe (
1 An Identity Uncovered!: +8 Cat)
- Spoiler Unlocked with Cat: Getting Warmer 1, Mouse: So Little Time 3-6,
1 x An Identity Uncovered!
Success
"But how did you — ?"
- You've gained 8 x Cat: Getting Warmer
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
You've lost 1 x An Identity Uncovered!
- If chasing A Deranged Medium:
Look at the ivory frame (in 
The Mirror-Marches, how can you fail?: +9 Cat)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Mouse: So Little Time 3-6, Playing Cat and Mouse with an Evasive Target exactly 6
Challenge information
A matter of luck: How can you fail? (success chance: 90%)Success
The serpents speak!
- You've gained 9 x Cat: Getting Warmer
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
Nightmares is dropping… (-2 CP)
Failure
The serpents are silent.
- Nightmares is dropping… (-2 CP)
Mouse: So Little Time 2
Last chance! – follow your nose ( pretty good odds: +10 Cat)
- Spoiler Action Cost: 2
Unlocked with Mouse: So Little Time exactly 2, Cat: Getting Warmer 1
Challenge information
A matter of luck: Pretty good odds (success chance: 70%)Success
A breakthrough!
- You've gained 10 x Cat: Getting Warmer
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
Failure
Never enough
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
Last chance! – play it safe (
1 Blackmail Material: +10 Cat)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Cat: Getting Warmer 1, Mouse: So Little Time exactly 2, 
1 x Blackmail Material
Success
"I thank you,
[formal address]. This must never see the light of day."- You've gained 10 x Cat: Getting Warmer
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
You've lost 1 x Blackmail Material
Mouse: So Little Time 1
Close in for the kill! (get 60 Cat for an additional reward)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
50 x Cat: Getting Warmer
Success
Straight to the goal
- An occurrence! Your 'Mouse: So Little Time' Quality is now 1!
Fate is on your side. (15 FATE)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Cat: Getting Warmer 1
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
- You've gained 40 x Cat: Getting Warmer
- You've lost 1 x Mouse: So Little Time
