Pursue a promising union

ID: 275425

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From: ACT (N), SCENE (m)

The plot requires you to accede to a matchmaking, to contrive the circumstances for a true desire.

Unlocked with Starring Role: Knave, Consuming Genre: Comedy, Crimson Airs 33-67

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 250

• 171 - very chancy (41%)
• 213 - chancy (51%)
• 255 - modest (61%)
• 296 - very modest (71%)
• 338 - low-risk (81%)
• 380 - straightforward (91%)
• 417 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Propulsive

It is a fire that burns across the borders of scenes. […] Stray glances across imagined courtyards. Bright flowers and brighter words, gifted in the dark […]. So proper; so mannered; so doomed. Thus the scene is set for each to meet their true destiny.

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 550 x Scarlet Applause
•  You've gained 1 Scene
•  Your audience's adoration of the King is increasing... (Increases Red Rapture by 0-1 CP, if already present)
•  Your audience's desperation for the Queen is increasing... (Increases Red Thirst by 0-1 CP, if already present)
•  Your audience's hunger for the Knave is increasing... (Increases Red Hunger by 0-1 CP, if already present)
•  [Crimson Airs change…] (random)

Failure

An excess of want

The play demands you court the [character] […] before the comedy of manners can properly begin. But […] this betrothed, scripted to lose you at the last, means to keep you, or kill you, possessed of a hunger […] above the strictures of your shared performance.

Description summary:
The minor character varies with Crimson Airs.

Airs	Character
1 - 10	judge
11 - 20	duchess
21 - 30	duke
31 - 40	marquis
41 - 50	princess
51 - 60	nobleman
61 - 70	noblewoman
71 - 80	noble
81 - 90	lord
91 - 100	lady

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 200 x Scarlet Applause
•  You've gained 1 Scene
•  Your audience's adoration of the King is increasing... (Increases Red Rapture by 2-3 CP, if already present)
•  Your audience's desperation for the Queen is increasing... (Increases Red Thirst by 2-3 CP, if already present)
•  Your audience's hunger for the Knave is increasing... (Increases Red Hunger by 2-3 CP, if already present)
•  [Crimson Airs change…] (random)