Establish a false identity with your Informant's help

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From: Opening: an Informant


Documents must be forged and planted; details memorized; recognition feigned. You need someone inside the correct offices.

Game Instructions: If successful, this will increase your Progress. You may lose the Informant or gain Suspicion.


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 100

  • 69 - very chancy (41%)
  • 85 - chancy (51%)
  • 102 - modest (61%)
  • 119 - very modest (71%)
  • 135 - low-risk (81%)
  • 152 - straightforward (91%)
  • 167 - straightforward (100%)

Shadowy, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (20 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.

Success

Corroborated by a solicitor

You enter with a sheaf of papers and a winning smile. You leave with a letter of introduction from a highly respected solicitor, affirming that your documentation has been verified and that you are... a person you'd never heard of before last week.

Rare Success

Corroborated, at some cost

You enter with a sheaf of papers. You leave with a letter of introduction from a respected solicitor, affirming [who you are].

Your Informant, however, was nearly caught […] meddling with the solicitor's archives. You can ask no more of them.

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


Failure

Bad documents

A missing initial in a signature here, a sister left out of a family tree there: you won't be using that forger again. Fortunately, you have not tipped your hand to the mark directly, but even rumours of an impostor won't help your cause.