Offer Mr Spices your medical opinion on its peculiar health

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From: A Conversation with Mr Spices


Make Mr Spices aware of how much you already know, and it may be persuaded to confide in you further. What is there to lose?

Game Instructions: This will raise your Watchful Gains to 18 if they are currently lower. It will consume the substances but not the Blackmail Material. The greater your Kataleptic Toxicology, the easier the Watchful check.

Unlocked with Watchful Gains 15-18, Base Watchful 215, 3 x Blackmail Materials, 1 x Halcyonic Tonic, 1 x Fillip of Effervescence


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 215

  • 147 - very chancy (41%)
  • 183 - chancy (51%)
  • 219 - modest (61%)
  • 255 - very modest (71%)
  • 291 - low-risk (81%)
  • 327 - straightforward (91%)
  • 359 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Kataleptic Toxicology reduces the base difficulty by 10 points.

Success

Symptoms both intellectual and emotional

[…] Mr Spices suffers from thoughts. "Thoughts devils have […]

Its behaviour, too, has changed […] "I've filled a warehouse with wagons and landaus. […]

A pad of cotton […] extracts the unsuitable inclinations.

You do not discard the tears, either. […]

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Success Instructions: You can investigate the tears at your Laboratory.


Failure

An alarming sequence of symptoms

[…] swollen feet, insomnia, fluctuating appetite; lurking dread whenever it sees a bottled soul; […] attachment to 'the little one', […] the infant will prove to be made of beetles. […] hair-raising amount of thought and imagination to the latter possibility.

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