Gossip with the servants
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From: Moving in Rarefied Circles
It's hardly high society, but the servants here are known for the occasional indiscretion regarding their betters.
Game Instructions: This may earn you Inklings of Identity or a Scrap of Incendiary Gossip.
Challenge information
Broad, Persuasive 21
- 15 - very chancy (42%)
- 18 - chancy (51%)
- 22 - modest (62%)
- 25 - very modest (71%)
- 29 - low-risk (82%)
- 32 - straightforward (91%)
- 35 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Encouragingly indiscreet servants
A merry rake is in prison for debt. A society darling is rumoured to have posed for a candid portrait. A married lady has been receiving love letters from a zee-captain. The evening passes in pleasant and occasionally valuable gossip.
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained 3 x Inkling of Identity
Alternative Success
A sudden hush
The cook doesn't quite admit to having pored through the documents […] in the safe […], but their contributions […] have the brutal ring of uncomfortable facts […]. The Lady's husband — […] in fact the whole of polite society — would be quite unsettled if they knew that.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Failure
A quiet evening below stairs.
The conversation is friendly and they brew a decent cup of what might be tea. They speak of the shroom-hopping results, the price of good rat-meat and what the Rubbery Men are really up to. No indiscretions at all, d--n them.
- Persuasive is increasing…