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From: Four of Smiths: Artifice

An imaginative mind and steady hand can achieve so much together.

Game Instructions: This will generate some progress and a Poisonous Preparation.

Unlocked with Poisonous Preparation 2

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of The Embalmer's Mark increases the base difficulty by 30 points.

Success

The calculus of unimpeded research

He moves slowly; his eyes are unused to focusing over such distances[…] But the Priest understands how things fit together[…]

"There," he says quietly[…] He will not make this strike himself, but with one word, he has named the breaking point[…]

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

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(4 - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've gained 1 x Poisonous Preparation
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)

Failure

The pursuit of a recondite plane

He will lend his eyes soon, he says – when he has finished flattening out this part of the base. His tiny hammer never ceases its motion, but he is still shaping hours later, unsatisfied.

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+1-3 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)