Enter Old Downy

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From: Ambition: Heart's Desire – the King's Heart


A sagging tenement, mottled with mould. A diminutive shape stirs beneath its chimneys: the rooftop is watched. To enter the building, you must whisper a secret phrase beneath a boarded window.

Game Instructions: Beware: you should have both Watchful and Shadowy of at least 150 (or even more) before braving Old Downy.

Unlocked with Ambition: Heart's Desire! 50-90, 1 x Rookery Password


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%)

Success

Through the front door

Silence behind the window. No movement; no breathing. But when you whisper the passphrase - a scrap of Elder Continent verse praising the Mountain - the door creaks open. There is no one behind it. No strings or mechanisms.[…]

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Redirects to: Old Downy


Failure

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There is no answer. The door remains closed. You wait. No change. You have heard the Knotted Sock change their password weekly. Perhaps this one was old.