Make an Impassioned Argument for Light and Beauty

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From: Enlighten the Magistracy of the Evenlode or Adjust the Lighting in the Magistracy of the Evenlode


Londoners were not meant to crawl around in the dark.

Game Instructions: This decreases the Liberation of Night and gains Romantic Notions. It is harder if you already have a reputation for siding with the Liberationists among the Tracklayers' Union.

Locked with Colour at the Chessboard 2


Wiki note: The requirement is only present on Adjust the Lighting in the Magistracy of the Evenlode


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%)

Each point of Supporting the Liberationist Tracklayers increases the base difficulty by 25 points.

Success

An emotive speech

[…] You explain the jurisprudential precedents that give primacy to Surface light […] You extensively discuss the role of public illumination in criminal procedure […] You offer counter-arguments to seditious sophists […]

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Rare Success

Rare Success!

[…] You explain the jurisprudential precedents that give primacy to Surface light […] You extensively discuss the role of public illumination in criminal procedure […] You offer counter-arguments to seditious sophists […]

A besotted jurist slips you a "gift" […]

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

Wiki note: The in-game title of this rare success is indeed "Rare Success!"


Failure

The wrong tone entirely

A prickly solicitor immediately begins poking pin-holes in your arguments. Are crimes not crimes if done in utter darkness? Does London's authority not extend through chains of obligation[...] Is this attempt at legal optics not, in itself, seditious[...]?