Have a drink and tell your story in a way that makes you look good
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From: Enjoy a Drink at the Medusa's Head
Game Instructions: If successful, this will gain you some Making Waves and reduce your Wounds.
Unlocked with 
Severed Chimaerical Head of the Vake
Challenge information
Broad, 
Bragging Rights at the Medusa's Head 4
- 1 - high-risk (15%)
- 2 - high-risk (30%)
- 3 - very chancy (45%)
- 4 - chancy (60%)
- 5 - very modest (75%)
- 6 - low-risk (90%)
- 7 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Astonishment! Applause!
[…]
You talk for hours: about the Prickfinger Wastes, and the mandrake […] and the nuns, and all that happened on Abbey Rock.
[…]
You tell them about the Chorister's Bomb, and the road to Parabola […]
The story ends with a hush […] You have truly impressed them.Description summary:
Some parts of the description will vary based on choices made during the ambition.
 Free-roving Teeth | Third Paragraph |
|---|---|
| No | You tell them about the Vake's teeth that move on their own, and show how the head still has them. |
| Yes | You tell them about the Vake's teeth that move on their own. Then you let your own […] out, as a party trick, and let them walk up and down the bar. The barkeep asks you never to do that again. Bad for customers' appetites, seeing that kind of thing. |
| Committed Impersonator | Fourth Paragraph |
|---|---|
| No | You mention how you dressed as Veils, and give a little history of the business with Mr Fires. |
| Yes | You show them your Veils-Velvet robe. […] No one may touch its surface, of course. It wouldn't do to get stout-stains on it. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
You've converted some of your personal story into fame and free beverages. (Decreases Bragging Rights at the Medusa's Head by 5 CP)
Wounds is dropping… (-3 CP)
Making Waves is increasing… (+5 CP)
Failure
Again?
You start […] grumbling and booing from the back of the room.
"Here we go again." "[…] the moths have been getting at your Vake head." "Ned here killed a giant angler crab […]"
Well! So be it. Perhaps in time they'll appreciate you properly again.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- You've converted some of your personal story into fame and free beverages. (Decreases Bragging Rights at the Medusa's Head by 5 CP)
- Wounds is dropping… (-3 CP)
