Send your own card by return

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From: The Revolutionary Firebrand's Card


Now he has made a move, shouldn't you show him you are interested? Are you interested? Or do you have more pragmatic motives?


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 42

  • 29 - very chancy (41%)
  • 36 - chancy (51%)
  • 43 - modest (61%)
  • 50 - very modest (71%)
  • 57 - low-risk (81%)
  • 64 - straightforward (91%)
  • 70 - straightforward (100%)

Success

"If I might be so bold?"

You send your smartest urchin with a card to his lodgings. A day or so later, a note arrives, begging permission to pay you a visit. His handwriting, in ink as brown as dried blood, is spiky and precise.


Failure

How dare he?

You send a card to his lodgings but hear nothing for some time. Days later, a mutual acquaintance confides that the gentleman found your move 'too forward'. Well.