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From: The Honours of the Court


As this revel's novelty, your opinion is sought on each and every topic.


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 220

  • 151 - very chancy (41%)
  • 187 - chancy (51%)
  • 224 - modest (61%)
  • 261 - very modest (71%)
  • 297 - low-risk (81%)
  • 334 - straightforward (91%)
  • 367 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of A Player of Chess counts as 15 extra points of Persuasive.

Success

No quarter

[...] this is conversation-as-combat, [...] battle lines long-drawn. [...]

Teutonic-toned nobles compliment your dress. [...] Barons and Baronesses slip between Dutch and English[...] You are moved around [...] like a game piece, each player attempting to clothe you in their colours.

[...]


Failure

Quickfire

A Marchioness solicits your opinion [...] A Viscomte seeks your counsel [...] An Earl – apparently English, his accent impeccable but his idiom foreign – inquires [...] The questions come thick and fast, and none of your answers satisfy.