Challenge a clergyman's faith

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From: The Business of a Crooked-Cross

The Melancholy Curate has a new Deacon at St Dunstan's. He wishes to test the limits of his subordinate's permissiveness.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 0 - 40

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 90

• 62 - very chancy (41%)
• 77 - chancy (51%)
• 92 - modest (61%)
• 107 - very modest (71%)
• 122 - low-risk (81%)
• 137 - straightforward (91%)
• 150 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Mithridacy 0 (50% base)

• 0 - very chancy (50%)
• 1 - chancy (60%)
• 2 - modest (70%)
• 3 - very modest (80%)
• 4 - low-risk (90%)
• 5 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

"The fox condemns the trap, not himself"

[...] his eyes snag on the apocyan glory of your cross, you know you have him. He realises how far he has strayed only later[..]

The Melancholy Curate is delighted with your work. The Deacon is now often seen at St Dunstan's, polishing brasswork [..]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Services Rendered: The Church
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 320 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Mysterious Client Attention Odds (hidden)

Depending on Mysterious Client Attention Odds:

•  An interested party has made a request on your skills. (Sets Attracting the Attention of a Mysterious Client to 1)

Failure

Just a little push

The Fresh-Faced Deacon proves more impressionable than you had anticipated. […] It is all you can do to keep up with his accelerated plummet into apostasy. You usher him out of the chapel before he can take a hammer to the bust of Saint Melliflua.

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• Persuasive is increasing…
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 200 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies