Greet the Merry Gentleman

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From: A merry gentleman


It's only polite.

Game Instructions: This check gets dramatically harder as your unmodified Watchful increases. Succeed or fail, it will send the Merry Gentleman away until Time, the Healer comes.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 251

  • 172 - very chancy (41%)
  • 214 - chancy (51%)
  • 256 - modest (61%)
  • 298 - very modest (71%)
  • 339 - low-risk (81%)
  • 381 - straightforward (91%)
  • 419 - straightforward (100%)

Difficulty is ( Base Watchful ^ 1.7)/10. Example shown at Watchful 100.

Success

A refuge

That night you dream of crimson and gold. A lizard laps at your face like a lost puppy. Something moves behind the cage-bars of the paisley wallpaper, making eyes at you.

Success Instructions: Your Nightmares will increase a little more slowly, and the Merry Gentleman will not visit, until Time, the Healer comes.


Failure

A refuge?

That night you dream of a tall building lit by cheery fires. A sign reads CLEFT FOR THEE HIDE IN ME. The walls are wrong. The walls are wrong.

Failure Instructions: Your Nightmares will increase a little more rapidly, and the Merry Gentleman will not visit, until Time, the Healer comes.