Make words your weapon

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From: Seven of Ambivalences: Goad

Promises themselves may become a poison, with the right encouragement.

Game Instructions: This will give you progress that scales with each Ace you have collected.

Unlocked with Poisonous Preparation 5

Challenge information

Narrow, Shapeling Arts 12 (50% base)

• 8 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 9 - high-risk (20%)
• 10 - high-risk (30%)
• 11 - tough (40%)
• 12 - very chancy (50%)
• 13 - chancy (60%)
• 14 - modest (70%)
• 15 - very modest (80%)
• 16 - low-risk (90%)
• 17 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of The Embalmer's Mark increases the base difficulty by 2 points.

Success

Insinuation

[…] He boils amber, distils it, and fills his inkwell[…]

He closes his eyes while he writes, has you look away, too. He is swift to […] seal it into the envelope[…]. "These promises will become part of him. Will buzz beneath his skin more fiercely than any poison."

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

•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+([5 x An Ace in Hand] + 1 with Ace of Kings - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)

Failure

Overcommitted

Promises bind both ways, and you are too slow to look away from the King's ambered paper – the words of snaring and committing. There is a buzzing beneath your skin.

The King sighs, consigns the letter to the fire. "Unfortunate."

•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+1-3 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)