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From: Ambition: Nemesis – Forgotten Quarter 0


From your left, and then ahead of you, you hear a clicking whistle. Devils, out for an evening's sport. Have you done something to attract their attention? Or were you just unlucky?


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 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

A game of cat-and-mouse

[…] you're surrounded by smiling devils. […] they pursue you in and out of the ruins of broken temples and palaces […]

Finally you knock off a devil's hat! He gives an anguished cry […] You take the opportunity to slip away, deeper into the Quarter.

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Failure

A nasty beating

[…] you're surrounded by smiling devils. […] a blow from behind sends you reeling. […]

You regain consciousness in the street outside the Brass Embassy. The devils are gone, taking their share of any souls you might be carrying. […]

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