Obstacle: Legal Complications

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After scrutinising a street-seller's basket of pigs' trotters, you turn to see your mark in conversation with a young constable! The copper has taken a shine to them, and is offering to act as a guide. This is inconvenient.

Game Instructions: Obstacle cards play as soon as they are drawn and may increase your menaces - unless you can remove them from your deck.

Unlocked with 1 x Flash Lay: Legal Complications

Card drawn in A Flash Lay

Occurs with Standard Frequency

Options:

Tolerate the Constable's company

•  Spoiler ID: 161294
  

   

  Success

  Just taking the air

  •  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)
  •  You've gained 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve

  ^

A sacrifice for the cause

•  Spoiler ID: 170055
  

   

  Success

  Good god!

  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
  •  You've gained 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve

  ^

Get rid of her, quickly

•  Spoiler ID: 158133
  

  Unlocked with 5 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Persuasive 125 || 86 - very chancy (41%) || 107 - chancy (51%) || 128 - modest (61%) || 148 - very modest (71%) || 169 - low-risk (81%) || 190 - straightforward (91%) || 209 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Persuasive, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (25 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.

  Success

  Locally sourced, perfectly ripe

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • You've lost 1 x Flash Lay: Legal Complications
  • You've lost 5 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
  •  You've gained 25 x Flash Lay's Progress

  Failure

  "Not on the job, thank you."

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  Suspicion is increasing… (+4 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve

  ^

The Constable is young, naive

•  Spoiler ID: 158134
  

  Unlocked with 8 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Shadowy 208.33 || 143 - very chancy (41%) || 178 - chancy (51%) || 212 - modest (61%) || 247 - very modest (71%) || 282 - low-risk (81%) || 316 - straightforward (91%) || 348 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Shadowy, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (41.66 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.

  Success

  A cunning speech

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  • You've lost 8 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
  • You've lost 1 x Flash Lay: Legal Complications
  •  You've gained 1 x A Flash Lay: Corrupt Constable
  •  You've gained 25 x Flash Lay's Progress

  Failure

  A motivated speech

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve

  ^