Spread rumours about your competitors' products
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From: Meddle with the competition
[Campaign Focus] will be perceived as a welcome alternative.
Game Instructions: Success here has a small chance of boosting your Shadowy even more than usual.
Challenge information
- 41 - very chancy (41%)
- 51 - chancy (51%)
- 61 - modest (61%)
- 71 - very modest (71%)
- 81 - low-risk (81%)
- 91 - straightforward (91%)
- 100 - straightforward (100%)
Each point of 
Advertising Profile: Enterprise increases the base difficulty by 4 points.
Success
A devious tale
Description summary:
The description varies based on your Advertising Profile: Campaign Focus
| Campaign Focus | Description |
|---|---|
| Mrs Winthrop's Purifying Soap | What really goes into F.F. Gebrandt's Tincture of Vigour? Merely asking the question is enough […] Mrs Winthrop's Purifying Soap is for external application only, but washing one's hands suddenly seems like a safer way to ward off an ailment. |
| Spirit of the Zee | You spread a rumour that most mushroom spirits are made from fermented Uttershroom. Spores remain dormant inside unsuspecting drinkers for years until, without warning, they take over their hosts. […]
Appalled, drinkers turn to Spirit of the Zee […] |
| Sterling's Solar Hearth | You spread a rumour that illegal sunlight traders target […] poorly lit homes. They slip mirrorcatch boxes through the letterboxes so […] unsuspecting residents become addicted to illegal sunlight […] Investing in Sterling's Solar Hearth should fend them off. |
| The Cosmic Matchmaker | You spread a rumour that not only are most matchmaking services ineffective, but that they are a front. They gather intimate details about people so that they might blackmail them later. Only one is above such a sordid tactic […]: The Cosmic Matchmaker. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Shadowy is increasing…
Advertising Profile: Campaign Duration is dropping… (-1 CP)
You've gained (see table below) x Advertising Profile: Name Recognition
| Enterprise
|
0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Name Recognition Gain
|
167 | 167 | 172 | 174 | 200 | 212 | 267 | 279 | 305 | 307 | 312 | 312 |
| Name Recognition Rare Gain
|
221[1] | 222 | 228[1] | 231[1] | 265[1] | 280 | 353[1] | 368 | 402[1] | 405 | 411 | 412 |
(Wiki note: Rare Gain can occur with or without Rare Success below)
Rare Success
A fair appraisal
Description summary:
Same as regular success
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Shadowy is increasing…
- Advertising Profile: Campaign Duration is dropping… (-1 CP)
- Shadowy is increasing… (+5 CP, up to level 200 +
Shadowy Gains) - You've gained (see table above) x Advertising Profile: Name Recognition
Failure
Slander!
The rumours are quickly traced back to you. Your transparent attempts to disparage your competitors are roundly derided. In their rush to denounce you, people forget that [Campaign Focus] was ever mentioned.
[Campaign Focus] was ever mentioned.- Shadowy is increasing…
Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)- You've lost (see table below) x Advertising Profile: Name Recognition
| Enterprise
|
0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name Recognition Loss
|
-1 | -1 | -6 | -9 | -36 | -49 | -108 | -121 | -148 | -151 | -156 | -156 |
Categories:
- Pages Without Guide Restrictions
- Advertising Profile: Campaign Focus Text Uses
- Shadowy Challenge
- Advertising Profile: Enterprise
- Advertising Profile: Enterprise Formula Uses
- Actions
- Advertising Profile: Campaign Duration Loss
- Advertising Profile: Name Recognition Gain
- Rare Success
- Shadowy Gain
- Scandal Gain
- Advertising Profile: Name Recognition Loss
