Contrive a little 'accident'

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From: The Rival


Your competitor is better-dressed than you, and more attractive, and this is simply not to be borne. Fill your goblet to the brim with Greyfields' most acidic vintage red, then go and find your rival.


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 66

  • 46 - very chancy (41%)
  • 57 - chancy (51%)
  • 68 - modest (61%)
  • 79 - very modest (71%)
  • 90 - low-risk (81%)
  • 101 - straightforward (91%)
  • 110 - straightforward (100%)

Success

"Oh my goodness! How inexcusably clumsy of me!"

You 'trip' daintily [...] and your rival is left gasping and dripping like a fish out of water [...] You offer to help, and grind the wine in further with your handkerchief. [...]

[...] Your heartfelt exclamations of guilt make you seem so kind and solicitous, too [...]

[...]


Failure

Where did that child come from?

[...] before you can move, a small boy [...] comes careering out of nowhere, and cannons into you. Wine goes everywhere. You try to be gracious, but your mutterings about finding the little offender are overheard [...] Best to leave now [...] Besides, you look terrible. [...]