Scapegoats and alibis

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From: Preparing for a Big Score

Action Cost: 3

Indisputable excuses and convenient idiots are essential to the modern criminal. Arrange your alibis in advance.


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 80

  • 55 - very chancy (41%)
  • 68 - chancy (51%)
  • 82 - modest (61%)
  • 95 - very modest (71%)
  • 108 - low-risk (81%)
  • 122 - straightforward (91%)
  • 134 - straightforward (100%)

Success

"I wasn't even there..."

"I have no idea what you're talking about. Here is a list of twenty people who will swear I was at choir practice. And in any case it was him over there, in the hat."


Failure

Damnable dupe!

Using scapegoats does have its risks. They sometimes go to the authorities before you are ready. Someone seems to have been talking out of school.