Identify yourself to the pilot as a fellow worker

ID: 246217

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From: A Conversation with Mr Fires

Be aboard the dirigible when it leaves. You can claim to be anything – even a member of Mr Fires' staff.

Game Instructions: To create this Cover Identity, you will need a fully upgraded Cabinet Noir at Balmoral.

Unlocked with Cover Identity: Ties exactly 3, Cover Identity: Elaboration 2

Locked with Furnace's Fate Revealed

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

The above rating is if the player has Deceived the Dean concerning an Experimental Outcome. Without it, the rating is 220, because Mr. Fires is unaware you know the nature of the drug.

Success

A Servant, deceived

The pilot looks at your papers, looks at you, and gives a brusque nod. […]

[…] "Barely enough of a job for one," […] "So I don't know why Fires brought you on. Unless it's planning to replace me. God, there's a thought."

Station VIII dwindles below. […]

Description summary:
The end of the last paragraph changes with your Station VIII: Darkness level.

Station VIII: Darkness	Description
0 - 2	Its excessive illumination means you know exactly where you're headed: a little north, a little west, but chiefly up.
3 - 4	It is lit brightly enough to continue to serve as a beacon, showing your bearings, for quite some time, as you head slightly northwest and very much upwards.
5	It is lit brightly enough to continue to serve as a beacon for a little while, but it is occluded by mist and darkness long before you finish your rise to the ceiling.
6 - 7	It is so dark that you soon lose sight of it, and cannot use it to take your bearings.

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
• Your 'Cover Identity: Backstory' Quality has gone!
• Your 'Cover Identity: Nuance' Quality has gone!
• Your 'Cover Identity: Credentials' Quality has gone!
• Your 'Cover Identity: Ties' Quality has gone!
• Your 'Cover Identity: Witnesses' Quality has gone!
• You have exhausted the usefulness of your most recent cover identity. (Resets Cover Identity: Elaboration to 0)
•  You've gained 1 x Fabricator of Past Lives

Redirects to: Hillchanger Tower, Changed

Failure

Suspect

She reads your paperwork. Then she considers your face. Then she declares you 'a bit familiar looking' and refuses to believe you're 'merely' a first mate for the dirigible.

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)