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.

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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."

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