Keep the board calm and offer no resistance

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From: Chaos in the Boardroom


These close quarters, with so many fragile people unprepared for a fight, it is time for diplomacy rather than a brawl.


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 150

  • 103 - very chancy (41%)
  • 128 - chancy (51%)
  • 153 - modest (61%)
  • 178 - very modest (71%)
  • 203 - low-risk (81%)
  • 228 - straightforward (91%)
  • 250 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A valiant attempt

In a firm voice, you instruct everyone to make room for the meeting's visitors […]

[…] Then three Masters arrive.

Spices, moving slowly […]

Iron, wordless […]

Pages […] When it arrives, it – was that a nod? a small bow, even? – to the Efficient Commissioner?

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

Redirects to: A Meeting Chaired by the Efficient Commissioner


Failure

A valiant attempt

You encourage all of your people to sit down quietly […]

These very sensible instructions are entirely ignored. Someone punches a neddy man; someone else throws an ink-pot […] Several head-knockings later, the room is secured […] Then three Masters arrive.

[…]

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

Redirects to: A Meeting Chaired by the Efficient Commissioner