Learn your mark's secrets
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From: Opening: a Ring of Duplicate Keys
Your mark has excused themselves. The silvered keyholes of the boxes and drawers around the room glint invitingly at you.
Game Instructions: If successful, this will gain you Up your Sleeve.
Challenge information
Broad, Persuasive 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%)
Persuasive, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (25 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.
Success
And what have we here?
The lock turns. The drawer opens. Papers rustle. Oh. Oh, my.
You're back in your seat before your mark returns. They're no wiser now than when they left. The same can't be said for you, though.- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained 3 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
Failure
Too many blasted keys!
One after the other, the keys refuse to fit. The one that does, sticks – you wrench it free just as your mark returns. Did they believe your claim of amateur interest in lacquered boxes? They keep glancing back at the d___ed thing.
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)