Deploy that barrel of gunpowder!

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From: Intervene in a Dockers' Brawl

It won't be easy to arrange – breaking the barrel open, getting clear, arranging for the barrel to ignite–

Game Instructions: This is a risky move, giving greater rewards on success and making matters worse on failure.

Unlocked with Taking Sides at a Brawl, The Airs of London 66-82

Locked with Brawling with Dockers 150

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 250

• 171 - very chancy (41%)
• 213 - chancy (51%)
• 255 - modest (61%)
• 296 - very modest (71%)
• 338 - low-risk (81%)
• 380 - straightforward (91%)
• 417 - straightforward (100%)
  

With Taking Sides at a Brawl 10, the challenge difficulty increases by 50 points.

Each point of Brawling with Dockers reduces the base difficulty by 1.5 points.

Success

Success!

The explosion sears your vision. It lacquers your skin with perspiration and ash. It redistributes several of your opponents into new configurations; it scatters crates and startles bats into the sky.

• Dangerous is increasing…
• Taking Sides at a Brawl 1-9
  •  You've gained 13 x Brawling with Dockers
• Taking Sides at a Brawl 10
  •  You've gained 15 x Brawling with Dockers
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)

Rare Success

A fierce success

The explosion sears your vision. […] It redistributes several of your opponents into new configurations; it scatters crates and startles bats into the sky.

After the explosion comes a lingering scent of roses and defiance.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

Wiki note: Rare success chance is 25%.

• Dangerous is increasing…
• Taking Sides at a Brawl 1-9
  •  You've gained 18 x Brawling with Dockers
• Taking Sides at a Brawl 10
  •  You've gained 20 x Brawling with Dockers
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)
•  You've gained 1 x Perfumed Gunpowder

Failure

Oof!

The attempt is bold, the consequences unfortunate. The wounds are bad enough, but it seems that the owners are laughing at you.

• Dangerous is increasing…
• Taking Sides at a Brawl exactly 1
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+3 CP)
• Taking Sides at a Brawl 2-10
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
• Taking Sides at a Brawl 1-9
  •  You've lost 4 x Brawling with Dockers
• Taking Sides at a Brawl 10
  •  You've lost 5 x Brawling with Dockers
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)