Man-traps and spring guns

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From: An Avenue of Dusty Earth


You have a few hours to set a welcome. A welcome of trip-wires, steel teeth and buckshot.


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 120

  • 82 - very chancy (41%)
  • 102 - chancy (51%)
  • 122 - modest (61%)
  • 142 - very modest (71%)
  • 162 - low-risk (81%)
  • 182 - straightforward (91%)
  • 200 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Of mice and hansoms

You pick your ground carefully. […]

You […] wait. […] A snap, a gunshot, a scream. […] The hansom clatters off, trailing pained shrieks. What a pleasant morning - perhaps it's time for a spot of tea.

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Success Instructions: You could consider matters further at your lodgings.


Failure

Hardly sporting

The best place for the wire-fired shotgun would be... SNAP! Metal jaws close around your leg. Someone got here first! It turns out that man-traps are excruciatingly painful.