Guide newcomers to where they might best fit in

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ID: 265556

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From: Growing the Population

It'll require a little surreptitious rummaging in visitors' lives and luggages, but it's all for a good cause.

Game Instructions: Failure here will increase the City Waning. Success may lower it, and will gain resources.

Unlocked with Cephalopod Satchel

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 180

• 123 - very chancy (41%)
• 153 - chancy (51%)
• 183 - modest (61%)
• 213 - very modest (71%)
• 244 - low-risk (81%)
• 273 - straightforward (91%)
• 300 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, A Player of Chess 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

Local knowledge

Londoners and [Site newcomers] arrive in [City name] […]. […]

You offer to carry newcomers' belongings in your satchel, […] you stroll through [Street]. Spycraft need not always be selfish, […] have a much clearer picture of where they will be happiest, and serve the community best.

Description summary:
The identity of the newcomers and the street name vary based on the city's Chosen Site.

Chosen Site	Newcomers
Ealing	Rubbery newcomers
Evenlode	ex-prisoners
Balmoral	retired highwaymen and former servants in the royal household
Station VIII	former factory workers
Burrow	retired laity from the Church of the Wild
Moulin	befuddled historians
Marigold	yellow-eyed exiles of Hell

Chosen Site	Street name
Ealing	Little Helicon
Evenlode	Barrowview
Balmoral	Little Glasgow
Station VIII	Apothecary Street
Burrow	Kettledrum Parade
Moulin	Little Waswood
Marigold	Excruciation Way

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  The City Waning is dropping… (-0-1 CP)
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

Caught slimy-handed

Your wide-eyed newcomer spots your ambulatory satchel turning over their possessions [...]. They are furious, and storm back in the direction of [Site (short)] before you can [...] explain [...].

[...] Your satchel's tentacles wobble in a vague approximation of a shrug.

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  The City Waning is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
• [Airs of Passengers change…] (random)