Contact an information broker

ID: 258419

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From: On the Trail

The city has a bustling trade in rumour, secrets, and implicature.

Game Instructions: (With Complication: a Surly Goat-Demon) This will become much easier if you deal with the Surly Goat-Demon first.

Unlocked with The Airs of London 51-100 (With Name-Making Case exactly 1) or The Airs of London 34-66 (With Name-Making Case 2-3), 10 x Whispered Hint

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 12

• 9 - very chancy (45%)
• 11 - chancy (55%)
• 13 - modest (65%)
• 15 - very modest (75%)
• 17 - low-risk (85%)
• 19 - straightforward (95%)
• 20 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of Complication: a Surly Goat-Demon increases the base difficulty by 10 points.

Success

Something to chew on

You tear half a dozen pages from your notebook [...] you're concerned your payment was never received. You're disabused of that notion, however, when you bite down on a wax puck [...] Breaking it open yields several feet of very illuminating ticker tape.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 2 x On the Trail
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)
•  You've lost 10 x Whispered Hint

Failure

An incorrectly addressed brick

You tear half a dozen pages from your notebook [...] That evening, someone puts a brick through your window [...] marked all over with looping symbols that make your eyes water [...] You're forced to conclude that it probably wasn't meant for you to begin with [...]

• Watchful is increasing…
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've lost 10 x Whispered Hint
•  You've gained 1 x Appalling Secret