Compose a nostalgic ode

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From: The Business of a Correspondent

The Maudlin Counsellor has a commission for you.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 30-70

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, Artisan of the Red Science 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

Written in resonant strain

The Counsellor tells you of a halcyon childhood. A home she lost. [...]

To make a poet of a Correspondent is to make a housecat of a tiger. But she is adamant [...]

[...] Your poem rhymes beautifully with her lost place [...] in that brief breath, she will be home.

• Persuasive is increasing…
• [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

Ringing hollow

The Counsellor tells you of a halcyon youth. […]

[…] You can make whole worlds from words alone without the aid of violant.

[…] you make her words echo on the page. She seems a little sad when she reads it […] "It felt better in the telling than the reading."

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

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