Jack's claimed dibs!
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From: Get to your quarry before Jack-of-Smiles
The red grin drawn across your quarry's wanted poster is a clear statement of his intent. You need to find your target before he does.
Challenge information
- 27 - very chancy (41%)
- 34 - chancy (52%)
- 40 - modest (61%)
- 47 - very modest (72%)
- 53 - low-risk (81%)
- 60 - straightforward (92%)
- 65 - straightforward (100%)
Success
That's how you do it...
[…W]hen your quarry sees you and runs for it, you bring him down in a maniacal chase through the alleys. Once he realises you're not Jack of Smiles, he is so relieved he practically races you back to the police station to turn himself over.[…]
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Dangerous is increasing…
You've gained 39 x Piece of Rostygold
Rare Success
That'll show him!
[…You run] smack into a tall, cadaverous man carrying a very sharp knife. It's Smiles himself! He doesn't like open confrontations, and he turns and bolts. You let him go. You have your target, and you know what face Smiles is wearing these days […]
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- Dangerous is increasing…
- You've gained 39 x Piece of Rostygold
You've gained 1 x Appalling Secret
Watchful is increasing…
An Annoyance to Jack-of-Smiles is increasing… (+1 CP)
Failure
Too late!
Your target's hovel is like a ghost ship: a pot of rat-stew only now starting to boil over; a half-read paper; a hat, still warm from a head[…Y]ou return to the police station […] to find […] parts of him festooning the front of the building. Ha ha.
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- Dangerous is increasing…
