Con an Eccentric Philosopher
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From: Larceny at Ealing Gardens
Game Instructions: This will consume your Cover Identity and give you a very valuable item.
Unlocked with Casing... 10, Cover Identity: Backstory 80, Cover Identity: Elaboration 10, Cover Identity: Nuance 5, Ealing Gardens: Darkness 4, Acquaintance with Helicon House, Cover Identity: Credentials 5
Success
A cunning plan
You wear the guise of a Disgraced Scholar[…]
You follow the Philosopher through a long evening at Helicon House[…] promised him that you will take his rare piece of Amber to the roof, where […] the Starved Men will take it as an offering. […]Description summary:
It's a classic con: you convince him that if he gives you the Amber now, the Starved Men will reward him with glim-fall in the future. Between the long wait before the promised payday and the difficult-to-reach location where it is supposed to occur, you should have plenty of time to disappear before he suspects a thing.
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- Casing... is dropping… (-55 CP)
- A Marauder of the Clay Highwayman is increasing… (+3 CP)
- You've gained 1 x Nodule of Fecund Amber
- You have exhausted the usefulness of your most recent cover identity. (Removes all Cover Identity: Elaboration)
- Your 'Cover Identity: Backstory' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Credentials' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Nuance' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Ties' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Witnesses' Quality has gone!
- You've gained 1 x Fabricator of Past Lives
- Pages Without Guide Restrictions
- Casing...
- Cover Identity: Backstory
- Cover Identity: Elaboration
- Cover Identity: Nuance
- Ealing Gardens: Darkness
- Acquaintance with Helicon House
- Cover Identity: Credentials
- Actions
- Casing... Loss
- A Marauder of the Clay Highwayman Gain
- Nodule of Fecund Amber Gain
- Cover Identity: Elaboration Loss
- Cover Identity: Backstory Loss
- Cover Identity: Credentials Loss
- Cover Identity: Nuance Loss
- Cover Identity: Ties Loss
- Cover Identity: Witnesses Loss
- Fabricator of Past Lives Gain