Dissimulate
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From: The Moon in Ambergris
You know that a true lie would ring false, but that the full truth is too much to be plausible. Leaven fact with fiction for better effect.
Challenge information
Narrow, Mithridacy 3 (50% base)
- 0 - high-risk (20%)
- 1 - high-risk (30%)
- 2 - tough (40%)
- 3 - very chancy (50%)
- 4 - chancy (60%)
- 5 - modest (70%)
- 6 - very modest (80%)
- 7 - low-risk (90%)
- 8 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
The truth
[…] "Damn them[…] Couldn't leave well enough alone." He scowls. "I told Old Resurrection, it ban't natural, a dead whale producing.[…]" […]
He hands you […] ambergris[…] "Last I have. Better I never had it."
[…] a section of the walkways high above go dark, candle by candle[…][Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- At last, you know how to open the whale. (Sets An Invitation to Drink off the End of the World to 30 - A moment with Tatterdemalion)
- You've gained 5 x Ascended Ambergris
Failure
Gone, gone
The leader stares at you, evidently not believing a word of it. (...) "You're with her. The engineer. (...) Now they're all dead and she's nowhere to be found. (...) But you're not so easily hid."
You reunite with your crew some hours later; bruised and bloodied (...). (...)
[...]- At last, you know how to open the whale. (Sets An Invitation to Drink off the End of the World to 30 - A moment with Tatterdemalion)
- Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)