Send him out busking

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From: Your Grubby Urchin is becoming troublesome


Teach him how to appeal to the crowd. Well, in the best traditions of this sort of thing, people are bound to at least pay him handsomely to go away.

Unlocked with Persuasive 25


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 35

  • 24 - very chancy (41%)
  • 30 - chancy (51%)
  • 36 - modest (61%)
  • 42 - very modest (72%)
  • 48 - low-risk (82%)
  • 54 - straightforward (92%)
  • 59 - straightforward (100%)

Success

It's almost worth keeping him.

'Ere yer go,' says your urchin after a successful day of busking and pickpocketing. 'A fird of me takin's as per wot we discussed.' Your reward for training the boy to beg persuasively is a big bag of dead rats. Oh, well.

Failure

More than you bargained for

"Ear-shattering" turned out to be a literal description of the child's musical talent. You are pursued for damages by the owners of several burst eardrums. And, most unfairly of all, starting to develop a reputation as an exploiter of child labour!