Pose as a member of the target's staff

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From: Eight of Skin: Infiltration

He keeps a large entourage of guards, servants and hangers-on. With your extensive observations, you may be able to infiltrate their number.

Game Instructions: This will give you progress.

Unlocked with Poisonous Preparation 3

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of The Embalmer's Mark increases the base difficulty by 30 points.

Success

Face-blindness

It is an exercise in hiding in plain sight. So deeply do you know the target's habits, and the day-to-day running of his household staff, that your presence is not questioned […] Once in, there are any number of ways to slip poison into the target's life […]

[…]

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(3 + 1 with Ace of Knights - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)

Failure

The joy of faces

[…] a scullery maid is discovered unconscious[…] Long, precise incisions […] All of the servantry are rounded up for questioning, and you are forced to flee […] The umpires are not pleased with the collateral, and the Knight of Skin is nowhere to be found.

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+1-3 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)