Exploit the target's habits

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From: Seven of Lures: Bait

Careful observation from above will reveal the target's favoured bakeries, tea-houses, greengrocers and butchers. Perhaps the target can be induced to poison himself.

Game Instructions: This will give you progress and consume some Poisonous Preparation.

Unlocked with Poisonous Preparation 2

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

Ace of Pages reduces the base difficulty by 20 points.

Each point of The Embalmer's Mark increases the base difficulty by 30 points.

Success

Did it to himself

[…]infiltrating reagents into […] the target's routine[…] One compound injected into the target's favourite wine[...] baked into the pastries at his preferred lunch spot[…] in the envelope-gum he uses every day[…] In isolation, all are harmless. But when mixed together? […]

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(10 - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've lost 1 x Poisonous Preparation
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)

Failure

Change in schedule

Today the target takes an eccentric route home, and does not stop at his usual grocer's […] Without the reagent that you painstakingly coated his favourite potatoes with, the compound you slipped into his morning coffee is utterly harmless. […]

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+0-1 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)