Let them down gently (Surface Ties: the Admirer 7)

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From: Surface Ties: the Admirer 7


You are building something new for yourself down here. This burgeoning life does not have room for students, however talented.


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 1

  • 1 - chancy (60%)
  • 2 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Honeyed words

You lace your rebuttal with compliments, assuring them of your confidence in their rising star. By the time they leave you with a tearful hug, they no longer believe they need your help. Perhaps they are even right.


Failure

And the scales fell from their eyes

Perhaps something in your tone betrays insincerity. Perhaps they had never considered that you might turn them away. The resulting argument does not go the way you had hoped, but regardless, you do not expect to see them again.