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From: Opening: a Corrupt Constable


Wait on a certain street corner when her shift ends. She always passes this way.

Game Instructions: This may increase Up your Sleeve. You may lose your Corrupt Constable or gain Suspicion.


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 125

  • 86 - very chancy (41%)
  • 107 - chancy (51%)
  • 128 - modest (61%)
  • 148 - very modest (71%)
  • 169 - low-risk (81%)
  • 190 - straightforward (91%)
  • 209 - straightforward (100%)

Shadowy, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (25 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.

Success

Two steps forward, how many back?

"Wonder if I'm doing more harm than good," she says, handing over a packet of notes in scrupulous handwriting.

You remind her […] She tells you this is the last time you can count on her. You've had this conversation before. It ends in beer.

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Rare Success

This is really the last time she will assist

After she delivers her documents, she takes off her badge and stamps on it. It barely dents. In the end she drops the badge into a chestnut seller's stove and watches the cheap tin deform in the heat.


Failure

Wait where you usually wait

[…]she is not alone. Her companion is a tall ferocious man with a Hussar-like moustache.

Your Constable avoids your eye. The companion stares. "[…]that one![…]Up to no good. Must cultivate better instincts, if you mean to rise to Sergeant yourself!"

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