Have the King offer a handshake

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ID: 261251

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From: Four of Ambivalences: Reservations

The kind covered with barbs and hooks.

Game Instructions: This will give you some progress.

Unlocked with Poisonous Preparation 4

Challenge information

Narrow, Shapeling Arts 12 (50% base)

• 8 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 9 - high-risk (20%)
• 10 - high-risk (30%)
• 11 - tough (40%)
• 12 - very chancy (50%)
• 13 - chancy (60%)
• 14 - modest (70%)
• 15 - very modest (80%)
• 16 - low-risk (90%)
• 17 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of The Embalmer's Mark increases the base difficulty by 2 points.

Success

An introduction to remember

[…] He greets the target as an old friend, offers him his hand. You watch the change in the target's eyes as flesh presses flesh. The terror. The comprehension. The frisson of enjoyment. His hand is swelling even before the King finally unclasps it.

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

•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(6 + 1 with Ace of Kings - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)

Failure

Recognised

A punctilious deviless intercepts the King before he reaches your target. She knows him, and his reputation. She's told him not to come back here.

The situation is quickly defused – […] – but any hope of an innocuous approach to your target is long past.

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

•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+1-3 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)