Compose a poem

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From: Epistolary Matters

Offer beauty.

Description summary:
The cost varies depending on your poetic school.

Identified with a School:	Requirement
The Nocturnals	1 x Mourning Candle
The Bazaarines	1 x An Identity Uncovered!
The Celestials	1 x Touching Love Story
The Mycologenes FATE	1 x Touching Love Story
The Terpsichoreans FATE	1 x Touching Love Story
You reject all labels	1 x Touching Love Story

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Game Instructions: The cost of composing this letter varies depending on the poetic school you are identified with. The recipient must have at least one point of Inspired... already. They can read the letter to increase their Inspired... quality.

Unlocked with Identified with a School: is: any, Persuasive 80, 1 x (See table)

Locked with A Letter, Ready to Mail, Establishing Social Relations

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 135

• 93 - very chancy (41%)
• 115 - chancy (51%)
• 138 - modest (61%)
• 160 - very modest (71%)
• 183 - low-risk (81%)
• 205 - straightforward (91%)
• 225 - straightforward (100%)
  

The difficulty is equal to 90% of your base Persuasive, rounded. The given example is for base Persuasive 150.

Success

It takes time

You put down a few initial lines:

[…]

...perhaps not exactly this. But you're on the right track with this one.

Description summary:
The poem varies according to your poetic school.

Identified with a School:	The Start of your Poem
The Nocturnals	I plunge my head into glassy water; I fill my lungs with darker-than-dark; the body sinks, the mind remains; the soul was never there.
The Bazaarines	And what, she asks, was left for me? A firkin full of golden cider; A blazing sigil 'pon the spires; A wider world than he aspires.
The Celestials	That day, I saw the Sun for my last time. And now I grieve beneath for His lost light. But soon, one day, I will repent my crime. And what remains of me will live in flight.
The Mycologenes	FATE
The Terpsichoreans	FATE
You reject all labels	Ode to a Honey-Mazed Bear O beast of claw and fur! O mirror-mad margrave! Thine honey is thine cider! Thine fez alights so pretty 'pon thine head!

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You have a letter ready to be mailed. (Sets A Letter, Ready to Mail to A Poetic Missive)
•  You've lost (see table) x Mourning Candle
•  You've lost (see table) x An Identity Uncovered!
•  You've lost (see table) x Touching Love Story

Recipient's Benefit: Read a poetic missive

Failure

Uninspired

You find yourself stuck looking for a word that rhymes with '[…].'

Description summary:
The rhyming problem varies according to your poetic school.

Identified with a School:	Word
The Nocturnals	tenebrous
The Bazaarines	labyrinthine
The Celestials	empyreal
The Mycologenes	FATE
The Terpsichoreans	FATE
You reject all labels	omnifarious

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• Persuasive is increasing…