Hide a snare within his mirrors

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From: Two of Disintegrities: Play

The target's chambers hide a glorious full-length mirror. His absence offers ample opportunity to tamper and trap.

Game Instructions: This will give you some progress.

Unlocked with Poisonous Preparation 4, Accomplice: Knight of Nobility

Challenge information

Narrow, Glasswork 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

All is vanity

It is a foul admixture of divergent arts and biologies. Amber, honey, dander, claw. Substances to change a man from the inside out. […]

When next the target admires himself before the mirror, the toxin will strike at man and reflection both.

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

•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(6 + 1 with Ace of Knights - 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

How many years' bad luck?

The glass shimmers and droops […] The Knight of Nobilities yowls in horror. The Knight of Disintegrities looks puzzled, […] This, it seems, was neither of their intents.

The mirror seeps into the carpet […] You will have to replace it.

[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)