Feed powerful contacts to the dark

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From: Aid in the Liberation


Description summary:
This action's title and description vary based on your knowledge of The Scheme of a Phoenix.

SchemeTitleDescription
0 - 10Feed powerful contacts to the dark Those who hold sway in London become nothing in the Hurlers.
40 - 45Destroy the Masters' most diligent collaborators The ambitious are easily lured by arcane power. Take them to Hurlers and let them shatter there.

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Game Instructions: If this goes badly, it will raise Scandal as well as Wounds – but who will care about that, all the way out here?

Unlocked with Hinterland City - Chosen Site is: Between Moulin's Wastes and the Cold of Hurlers, Where No One Else Would Care to Live


Challenge information

Narrow, Neathproofed 3 (50% base)

  • 0 - high-risk (20%)
  • 1 - high-risk (30%)
  • 2 - tough (40%)
  • 3 - very chancy (50%)
  • 4 - chancy (60%)
  • 5 - modest (70%)
  • 6 - very modest (80%)
  • 7 - low-risk (90%)
  • 8 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Diminishing

Sometimes they [...] freeze. Sometimes they meet their match among the goat-demons, or drown in the sulphur springs. Some walk on to Marigold, [...] and are sorry when they get there. Some very few meet a Steward. But none return to London as they were.

Description summary:
Depending on your progress of The Scheme of a Phoenix, an extra paragraph may be added to the beginning of the description, and if you have completed Ambition: Nemesis, an extra passage may be added to the end.

SchemeExtra Paragraph
40 - 45Once you might have selected your victims on some abstract guess at who held greatest power. Now you have mapped precisely who is most necessary – if not to the Judgements, then at least to Mr Fires.
Ambition: NemesisExtra Passage
4300 - 4500You have fed more powerful beings to the void before this. Who now remembers Mr Cups?

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Failure

Diminishing

Unfortunately, you are not wholly impervious to the environment yourself. Even the executioner can get frostbite. Your would-be victim escapes in the cold and makes his way home. Worse, his memory is intact when he gets there.