Intervene to your own advantage and the city's detriment

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From: Intervene in Civic Affairs


Any form of justice can be influenced.

Game Instructions: This will increase The City Waning. Do it only if you mean the city ill.


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 180

  • 123 - very chancy (41%)
  • 153 - chancy (51%)
  • 183 - modest (61%)
  • 213 - very modest (71%)
  • 244 - low-risk (81%)
  • 273 - straightforward (91%)
  • 300 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Mithridacy 5 (50% base)

  • 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 2 - high-risk (20%)
  • 3 - high-risk (30%)
  • 4 - tough (40%)
  • 5 - very chancy (50%)
  • 6 - chancy (60%)
  • 7 - modest (70%)
  • 8 - very modest (80%)
  • 9 - low-risk (90%)
  • 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Managing the city

You instruct Your Lackey to observe […] By the end, you can only just follow the dispute yourself. It is hard to imagine Your Lackey will be able to manage […]

The outcome is subtly unfair […] They will have to come back for arbitration again and again.

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Failure

They know you are pulling the strings

There is an attitude of open hostility [...] placards and billboards [...] have been defaced with dirty pictures and a Correspondence symbol meaning "Defeat of an Unworthy Adversary."

A woman on the corner is begging for coin. She stares at you [...]