Cleave a madman from his certainties

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From: The Business of a Crooked-Cross


A Gibbering Poet has been ensconced within the Royal Beth for months, utterly convinced that the Neath is a question and that his trousers are plotting to devour him.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 0 - 50, A Professional Specialisation: is Schismatic


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 200

  • 137 - very chancy (41%)
  • 170 - chancy (51%)
  • 204 - modest (61%)
  • 237 - very modest (71%)
  • 270 - low-risk (81%)
  • 304 - straightforward (91%)
  • 334 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Mithridacy 12 (50% base)

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

Success

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise"

[…] in dreams […] his delusions have constructed a citadel from cyclopean falsehoods […]

[…] Some consciousnesses reject truth; but lies, properly handled, can become truth-shaped. […] Such sophistry treats symptoms, not causes, but at least […] he will wear trousers.

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Failure

Impregnable

[…]

The Gibbering Poet's edifice of madness rebuffs all efforts, his walls of falsehood impenetrable. Some particularly pernicious beliefs empty oily barrels from a battlement, staining your own Generals of Certainty with sticky, flammable doubt.

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