Piece together a forgotten match

ID: 204800

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From: Practise with your Copper Cipher Ring

A game was once played – no one is quite sure who the players were, or what they held as their stakes, but it enthralled many.

Game Instructions: Spend all your Favours: The Great Game to gain significant Renown.

Unlocked with Persuasive ( Renown × 6), 7 x Favours: The Great Game, Renown: The Great Game 15-54, 25 x Bottle of Morelways 1872, 5 x Tale of Terror!!, 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip, 1 x Stolen Kiss, 1 x Mourning Candle

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 108

• 74 - very chancy (41%)
• 92 - chancy (51%)
• 110 - modest (61%)
• 128 - very modest (71%)
• 146 - low-risk (81%)
• 164 - straightforward (91%)
• 180 - straightforward (100%)
  

Persuasive, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of 6 x Renown: The Great Game. The above example is at Renown level 18.

Success

Cut down on the seventh

You interview known players […] find others.[…] A story slowly comes together; one of romance […]: the lover lost their eyes, their mind and their secret; the beloved faded into obscurity.

It is not the first time, though, you've heard the story.[…]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Renown: The Great Game is increasing… (+28 CP, up to level 55)
• Your 'Favours: The Great Game' Quality has gone!
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
• You've lost 1 x Mourning Candle
• You've lost 1 x Stolen Kiss
• You've lost 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
• You've lost 5 x Tale of Terror!!
• You've lost 25 x Bottle of Morelways 1872
•  Melancholy is increasing… (+5 CP, up to level 15)
• Ruthless is dropping… (-5 CP)

Failure

A waste

Though you come bearing gifts and threats of intimidation, what is not remembered cannot be shared. Your search is fruitless.

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
• You've lost 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
• You've lost 1 x Tale of Terror!!
• You've lost 2 x Bottle of Morelways 1872