Keep to the shadows

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From: Flint or Dagger


Watch the dance of knives by torchlight. Capitalise when their wielders fall.

Unlocked with Airs of Old Newgate 51


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 50

  • 35 - very chancy (42%)
  • 43 - chancy (51%)
  • 51 - modest (61%)
  • 60 - very modest (72%)
  • 68 - low-risk (81%)
  • 76 - straightforward (91%)
  • 84 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Knifework

One man bears a cloak and carries a dagger, blade held out. Another wanders by candlelight […] The first shadows the second closely, […] Then: one, two – fast. Candle and a cage full of bees tumble down. You race after them, swooping to catch the cage […]

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Failure

Ill met

[…] You hear the scrape of blades, smell the iron scent of blood. A cage filled with stolen bees clatters to the ground. You move in - too soon. One is bleeding, but […] retains the ability for a little fast knifework. You withdraw, clutching your new wound […]

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