Grind:Working toward a Foreign Posting

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This grind is a source of:

• Compromising Document
• Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus
• Outfit of Black Felt Garments
• Proscribed Material
• Stolen Kiss
• Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
• An Identity Uncovered!
• Sworn Statement
• Partial Map
• Extraordinary Implication
• Imperial Legitimacy
• Presbyterate Passphrase
• Blackmail Material

This grind might cause:

• Wounds
• Nightmares
• Scandal
• Suspicion

Grind definition

1. Collect Working toward a Foreign Posting 15 CP (will be reset). For that, do the following:
   • Choose the best option:
     • A particularly foreign office ( Persuasive 122 challenge).
       • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
       • Failure: +1 CP Scandal.
     • Can you make a good impression? ( Persuasive 122 challenge).
       • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
       • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Scandal.
     • Introduce yourself (the Teeth) ( Persuasive 122 challenge).
       • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
       • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Scandal.
     • Strike up a conversation at the tea urn ( Persuasive 122 challenge).
       • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
       • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Nightmares.
     • Depending on Mysteries of the Foreign Office:
       • 1: An elegant distraction ( Persuasive 122 challenge).
         • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
         • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Suspicion.
2. Collect Working toward a Foreign Posting 13 CP (will be reset). For that, do the following:
   • Choose the best option:
     • Wrangle an invitation ( Persuasive 125 challenge).
       • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
       • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Scandal.
     • Working fast ( Persuasive 125 challenge).
       • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
       • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Scandal.
     • It's all about the attitude ( Persuasive 125 challenge).
       • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
       • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Scandal.
     • Depending on Mysteries of the Foreign Office:
       • 1: Taking a look ( Persuasive 125 challenge).
         • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
         • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Scandal.
     • Depending on Mysteries of the Foreign Office:
       • 1: Making use of an Agent ( Persuasive 125 challenge).
         • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
         • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Nightmares.
     • Making friends with students ( Persuasive 125 challenge).
       • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
       • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Scandal.
     • Depending on Mysteries of the Foreign Office:
       • 1: The man in the fez ( Persuasive 125 challenge).
         • Success: +2 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting.
         • Failure: +1 CP Working toward a Foreign Posting, +1 CP Scandal.
3. Choose the best option:
   • Charm your way into the committee room ( Persuasive 127 challenge).
     • Success: +7 x Extraordinary Implication.
     • Failure: -1 CP Wounds, -1 CP Nightmares.
   • Another way ( Persuasive 127 challenge).
     • Success: +36 x Compromising Document.
     • Failure: +3 x An Identity Uncovered!.
   • Escort duty ( Persuasive 127 challenge).
     • Success: +450 x Proscribed Material.
     • Failure: +3 x Outfit of Black Felt Garments.
   • Off to see a gentleman of the press ( Persuasive 127 challenge).
     • Success: +5 CP Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus, +2 x Extraordinary Implication, +1 x Blackmail Material.
     • Failure: +2 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip, +3 x An Identity Uncovered!.
   • Depending on Successful Terms as Governor -:
     • 0: The Face of London.
       • Success: +2 x Partial Map, +100 x Imperial Legitimacy, +3 x Stolen Kiss, +2 x Presbyterate Passphrase.
     • 1-: An exchange of favours 1.
       • Success: +100 x Imperial Legitimacy, +3 x Sworn Statement.

Calculator

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param = Successful Terms as Governor -|Successful Terms as Governor -|0|toggleswitch|1,0
param = Mysteries of the Foreign Office|Mysteries of the Foreign Office|0|toggleswitch|1,0

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