Intermission: A Steel Compulsion

ID: 375940

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Your face itches beneath your mask. Need crawls under your skin. The need to sharpen, sharpen, sharpen. You should be ready, when the knives come out.

Unlocked with Act II, Scene 4, Consuming Genre: Tragedy

Card drawn in On a Red, Red Stage

Occurs with Standard Frequency

Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.

Options:

Sharpen the stage knives

•  Spoiler ID: 275471
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Watchful 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%)
  

  Success

  Acting and reacting

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  You've gained 650 x Scarlet Applause
  •  The scene resets. (Removes Scene)
  •  The final act begins, and with it, the end. (Raises Act by 1)
  •  [Crimson Airs change…] (random)

  Redirects to: ACT (N), SCENE (m)

  
  

  Failure

  Pitiful

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  You've gained 250 x Scarlet Applause
  •  The scene resets. (Removes Scene)
  •  The final act begins, and with it, the end. (Raises Act by 1)
  •  Your audience's adoration of the King is increasing... (Increases Red Rapture by 3 CP, if already present)
  •  Your audience's desperation for the Queen is increasing... (Increases Red Thirst by 3 CP, if already present)
  •  Your audience's hunger for the Knave is increasing... (Increases Red Hunger by 3 CP, if already present)
  •  [Crimson Airs change…] (random)

  Redirects to: ACT (N), SCENE (m)

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