Guard the revellers from eavesdroppers

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ID: MISSING

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From: The Errors of London

Secrecy is impossible to guarantee during Hallowmas. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to defend the confession-keepers.

Locked with A Confession of Curiosity from the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner, A Confession of Guile from Clathermont, A Confession of Impropriety from the Assured Filmmaker, A Confession of Violence from the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer, A Confession of Pride from the Duchess, A Confession of Whimsy from Colonel Molly

Challenge information

A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 50-60%)"-60" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.

Success

Peace beneath

There are no footsteps on the roofs; no shadows in the windows; no lingering figures on the street corner. The lurkers and listeners left - after you sent one scurrying away with a black eye.

[…]

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•  You've gained 1 x Foxfire Candle Stub
•  You've gained 21-30 x Cryptic Clue
•  You've gained 3-7 x Inkling of Identity

Rare Success

There are lights in darkness

Solitary revellers pass through the alleyways below, lit only by their candles. They look like the shooting stars of the stolen sky: traversing through the dark with nothing but their own light, and the hopes and fears the world has whispered to them

•  Nightmares is dropping… (-1-6 CP)
•  You've gained 2-3 x Vision of the Surface

Failure

A moving piece of night

You watch over the revellers from the rooftops. They […] whisper their confessions into the brick, and depart.

[…] a darkness on the roof across from you shifts - a Night-Black Cat! It scampers away, taunting you with the confessions it overheard.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  You've gained 3-7 x Appalling Secret

Failure

Beneath the stone

[…] revellers pass.[…] someone - or something - was listening in as they buried their confessions.

Nonsense! You personally cleared the eaves […]. Still, […] A few the cobbles are loose[…]; thick roots have grown swiftly, and are pushing them[…]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained 1 Mystery of the Elder Continent