Chapter VI: Coddling

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From: The Book of All Hours: Isoptera

In which the fears of those who have much to lose must, again, be assuaged.

Unlocked with A Person of Some Importance -, ( Keeper of the Tenfold Second OR Rebuilding a Now < 75000) (hidden)

Locked with Rebuilding a Now is 1500001 (World Quality, currently locked)

Challenge information

Narrow, Respectable 8 (50% base)

• 4 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 5 - high-risk (20%)
• 6 - high-risk (30%)
• 7 - tough (40%)
• 8 - very chancy (50%)
• 9 - chancy (60%)
• 10 - modest (70%)
• 11 - very modest (80%)
• 12 - low-risk (90%)
• 13 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Blandishments

Isoptera 3:17: The Traveller was forced to appeal to their vanities. [...]

Isoptera 3:24.i: [...] Each wing of the museum would have a sponsor [...]

Isoptera 3:24.ii: [...] They were to be remembered as the heralds of the New Democracy, those brave enough to stand aside. [...]

[...]

•  Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 5, or 50 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
•  You've gained 1 x Sworn Statement
•  You've gained 297 x Nevercold Brass Sliver

Without Reading the Book of All Hours:

•  'And so the Traveller read the Book of All Hours, and was recorded in its pages...' (Raises Reading the Book of All Hours by 1)

Failure

Dissatisfied

Isoptera 3:33: Those who harboured doubts were not easily convinced: [...] The doubters did not even know the Traveller's name. The Traveller was not from here, they murmured, or from now, and as they spoke the words they realised their truth. [...]

•  Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 2, or 20 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
•  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)