Offer cures for gout, dropsy and scrofula
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From: Start a Chemist's Business
One of the Palace nursery-maids asks if you can do anything for some rather more unpleasant diseases. The Librarian at the University will let you look at some medical texts, if you can help satiate his appetite for scandal.
Game Instructions: You can obtain Intriguing Snippets by using other Influence items in your inventory.
Unlocked with 
2 x Intriguing Snippet
Challenge information
Broad, 
Persuasive 74
- 51 - very chancy (41%)
- 63 - chancy (51%)
- 76 - modest (61%)
- 88 - very modest (71%)
- 100 - low-risk (81%)
- 113 - straightforward (91%)
- 124 - straightforward (100%)
Success
An astounding scientific advance!
You pored over the ancient medical texts […]. […] you find information about […] mushrooms. Your first patient is a […] gout-riddled colonel. You apply some of your liniment […] and watch […] as the swelling lessens visibly! You see tears in the eyes of the colonel's wife […]
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 124 x Jade Fragment
You've lost 2 x Intriguing Snippet
Failure
That was rather unpleasant.
[…] you consulted old texts and herbals until you had convinced yourself that you could use fungus from London's marshes to come up with a panacea […]. […] It is going to be a long time before anyone forgets that colonel's leg just dropping off like that.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Persuasive is increasing…
Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)- You've lost 2 x Intriguing Snippet
