Investigating the Big Rat
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Unlocked with 
Seeking the Meaning of the Plaster Face 3 to 9
Storylet appears in 
Your Lodgings
Options:
Have the Talkative Rat ask the Big Rat's guards
- Spoiler Unlocked with
1 x Talkative Rattus Faber
Challenge information
A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 60%)Success
Haulage and conversation
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+3 CP)
You've gained 50 x Foxfire Candle Stub
Rare Success
Haulage and conversation
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+3 CP)
You've gained 5 x Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax- You've gained 55 x Foxfire Candle Stub
Failure
Be sorry you asked
Serenity of the Plaster Face is dropping… (-4 CP)
Have the Working Rat drill a peephole into the Big Rat's lair
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1 x Working Rat
Challenge information
A matter of luck: Pretty good odds (success chance: 70%)Success
A precise diary
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+1 CP)
Rare Success
Plans
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+3 CP)
Failure
Gone before they look
- Serenity of the Plaster Face is dropping… (-1 CP, not lower than 5)
Have the Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief discover the Big Rat's next move
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1 x Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief
Challenge information
A matter of luck: Pretty good odds (success chance: 80%)Success
No one would know him
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+3 CP)
Rare Success
No one would know him
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+3 CP)
You're opening a Bundle of Oddities… (Up to 60)
Failure
Recognised
- Serenity of the Plaster Face is dropping… (-10 CP)
Let the Disgraced Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief loiter
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1 x Disgraced Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief
Challenge information
A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 50%)Success
Careless indifference
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+4 CP)
Rare Success
Careless indifference and large secrets
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+5 CP)
Failure
A threat to no one
- Serenity of the Plaster Face is dropping… (-2 CP)
Make a contribution in Lamplighter Beeswax
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100 x Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax
Success
Slight relief
Success Instructions: When your Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is at least 5, return to your Lodgings, opposite the Face, for the next step... or continue to increase the Serenity of the Face for safety.
- You've lost 100 x Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax
- Serenity of the Plaster Face is increasing… (+1 CP)
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+3 CP)
Send a lavish tribute of Foxfire Candles
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500 x Foxfire Candle Stub
Success
As good as a forged love-letter
- You've lost 500 x Foxfire Candle Stub
- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is increasing… (+3 CP)
- Serenity of the Plaster Face is increasing… (+10 CP)
Deface the face
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Challenge information
Broad,
Dangerous 100 || 69 - very chancy (41%) || 85 - chancy (51%) || 102 - modest (61%) || 119 - very modest (71%) || 135 - low-risk (81%) || 152 - straightforward (91%) || 167 - straightforward (100%)Success
Your artistry is profound
Dangerous is increasing…- Serenity of the Plaster Face is dropping… (-3 CP)
Failure
Nipped in the act
- Dangerous is increasing…
Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)- Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... is dropping… (-1 CP)
A remarkable piece of good fortune! (9 FATE)
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Having Rodentine Minions Investigate... 6
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
- An occurrence! Your 'Having Rodentine Minions Investigate...' Quality is now 6!
- An occurrence! Your 'Serenity of the Plaster Face' Quality is now 10!
