Fists first, then rhetoric

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From: A Pugnacious Encounter


You need only subdue them long enough to listen.

Game Instructions: If successful, this will significantly reduce Tracklayer's Displeasure.


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 120

  • 82 - very chancy (41%)
  • 102 - chancy (51%)
  • 122 - modest (61%)
  • 142 - very modest (71%)
  • 162 - low-risk (81%)
  • 182 - straightforward (91%)
  • 200 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Mithridacy 5 (50% base)

  • 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 2 - high-risk (20%)
  • 3 - high-risk (30%)
  • 4 - tough (40%)
  • 5 - very chancy (50%)
  • 6 - chancy (60%)
  • 7 - modest (70%)
  • 8 - very modest (80%)
  • 9 - low-risk (90%)
  • 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

In the morning, they will call this a hangover

They will not remember precisely what you said to them […] If they're having any difficulties in these parts, it's down to bad luck; or perhaps they've not been working hard enough lately. The city helps those that help themselves, isn't that right?

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Failure

This should have been no trouble at all

Are you getting old? Slow? What's got into you?

Description summary:
Depending on the city's Founding Body, the generic description may be replaced with a different one.

Founding BodyDescription
Your Own DoubleThis is what comes of making your double into the city: all the citizens know your fighting style. [...] your moves don't surprise them; your choice of weaponry doesn't throw them off. And there are too many of them for you to handle, [...].

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