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From: The Business of a Correspondent

A Wistful Captain has an ambitious commission that will challenge your knowledge of the Red Science, if you can arrange for the necessary components.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 10-40, A Professional Specialisation: is Crimson Engineer

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 140

• 96 - very chancy (41%)
• 119 - chancy (51%)
• 143 - modest (61%)
• 166 - very modest (71%)
• 189 - low-risk (81%)
• 213 - straightforward (91%)
• 234 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 10 (50% base)

• 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 7 - high-risk (20%)
• 8 - high-risk (30%)
• 9 - tough (40%)
• 10 - very chancy (50%)
• 11 - chancy (60%)
• 12 - modest (70%)
• 13 - very modest (80%)
• 14 - low-risk (90%)
• 15 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Slipping the bonds

[...]

Not flight. This will not be flight. This will be a filibuster of a fall.

Finally, a church tower. [...] You ask the Captain, one last time, if she's sure. She steps out into space, and hovers, governed only by the laws you have broken.

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Services Rendered: Zailors
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 410 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Mysterious Client Attention Odds (hidden)

Failure

The Tyranny of Gravity

A strapwork harness of bat leather [...] leaden boots. Heavy weights and marks of subversion. A church tower [...]

You might be audacious [...] but you're no fool. The safety line snaps taut a dozen feet down. [...] "This was a bad idea. I'll find another way."

• Persuasive is increasing…
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 200 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies