Eliminate pests

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From: Vertiginous Horticulture

What the Fifth City lacks in sunlight, it more than makes up for in pests desperate to munch on your [Growth]. It is not an altogether pleasing trade.

Unlocked with Nurturing a Rooftop Growth 1 - 150, The Airs of London 51-100, Rooftop Growth, Classification: Plantae

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 85

• 59 - very chancy (41%)
• 73 - chancy (51%)
• 87 - modest (61%)
• 101 - very modest (71%)
• 115 - low-risk (81%)
• 129 - straightforward (91%)
• 142 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Eliminated

[...]

You set about with [Substance], ejecting these intruders from your rooftop beds whenever you can catch them.

Description summary:
The first paragraph varies depending on Rooftop Growth, the second paragraph changes if you have Nikolas & Sons Instant Ablution Absolution and Bottled Oblivion, and a sentence is added to the end if you have a Rose-Bearing Maggot.

Growth	First Paragraph
1: Singular Cuttings	Your burgeoning Singular Plants occasionally play host to thumb-sized and virulent yellow caterpillars. [...] fruits lie half-consumed in the soil here, decapitated from the plant before they could fully flourish into their distinctive skull-like shapes.
2: 'Dawn-Yodeller' Mandrakes	They look like earwigs, and are attracted to sound. Whenever your mandrake makes a fuss [...] it draws in the creatures – 'shriekfish', according to a Wizened Botanist – [...] they lap up a mandrake's buried screams, leaving it dessicated and mewling.
4: Recusant Marigolds	The Recusant Marigolds attract stubby black worms in the soil around them, which seem to [...] bask in the flowers' heat. [...] too long in the presence of these basker leeches and the petals of your marigolds stiffen, falling to the ground as [...] thin sheafs of brass.
6: Millennium Roses	Ruby-toned insects flock to your Millennium Roses, darting around [...] pistils hungrily. They are almost pretty – until you [...] realise that the crimson jewels are actually the swollen abdomens of mosquitoes, siphoning blood-red sap from within the roses.
8: Genuine Counterfeit Exceptional Roses	Lamplighter bees swarm your almost-exceptional roses angrily. Their buzzing resonates at a higher pitch than normal – something about these flowers enrages them.

Substance	Text
Neither	insecticide and water
Ablution Absolution	Instant Ablution Absolution and water
Bottled Oblivion	insecticide and Bottled Oblivion
Both	Instant Ablution Absolution and Bottled Oblivion

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained (12 + Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth
•  [The Airs of London change…] (random)

Rare Success

With gusto

[...]

You set about with [Substance], ejecting these intruders from your rooftop beds whenever you can catch them. A nearby cat, intrigued by the prospect of so many tiny defenseless creatures to pounce at, elects to join in the fun.

Wiki note: Rare success chance is 30%.

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained (14 + Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth
•  [The Airs of London change…] (random)

Failure

Crafty things

You have no idea how these things keep reaching your [Growth]. You put up netting. You put up wire netting. You keep watch and spray insecticides – no avail. The [Pest] outfox you at every turn.

Description summary:
Pest varies depending on Rooftop Growth.

Growth	Pest
1: Singular Cuttings	Herod-worms
2: 'Dawn-Yodeller' Mandrakes	shriekfish
4: Recusant Marigolds	basker leeches
6: Millennium Roses	replete mosquitoes
8: Genuine Counterfeit Exceptional Roses	lamplighter bees

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained (1 + Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth
•  [The Airs of London change…] (random)