Run your target down in the street – carefully

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From: Two of Ribs: Pursuit

The Knight of Ribs has fitted the wheels of the phaeton with scythed blades, 'just like Mithridates used to do it'. The cutting edges are coated with vicious poison.

Game Instructions: This will give you some progress.

Unlocked with Poisonous Preparation 4

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 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

Close call

[...] her horses[...] fly like lightning at a flick of the reins. The [...] blades blur into a tornado [...]

You are lucky that the target survives the blades and blood loss. "[...]death by any means other than poison is grounds for disqualification." An umpire has appeared[...]

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(7 + 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

Collateral

It is often difficult, when at the reins of vehicle, to remember the presence of such trifling […] things as pedestrians, and foot traffic. […] They will all survive ("Probably, anyway," says the Knight), but you have not won any favours with the umpires.

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

• Dangerous 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… (+0-1 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)