Sneak up behind it
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From: Stop That Stove!
How alert can it be? It's a potbelly stove!
Unlocked with 
Stoking the Stove exactly 8
Challenge information
- 212 - very chancy (41%)
- 264 - chancy (51%)
- 316 - modest (61%)
- 367 - very modest (71%)
- 419 - low-risk (81%)
- 471 - straightforward (91%)
- 517 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Spooked
With a shriek like a steaming kettle, the stove leaps at least ten feet into the air. Then it crashes back to the ground, still scrambling […] Before you can so much as offer it some smelling salts to calm its nerves, it has already run for the hills.
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Shadowy is increasing…
Stoking the Stove is increasing… (+3 CP)
Failure
Smoke! Smoke everywhere!
This isn't fair! You can't be outmanoeuvred by a heating appliance! But how could anyone expect you to see where it went, when it's belching smoke into your face? Smoke filled with cherry-red embers that sizzle when they touch your skin.
