Steal the manuscript

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From: An errand for the Cheesemonger


Security measures at the offices of publishers vary from 'nothing' to 'lethal'. This could be easy, or not.


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 48

  • 33 - very chancy (41%)
  • 41 - chancy (51%)
  • 49 - modest (61%)
  • 57 - very modest (71%)
  • 65 - low-risk (81%)
  • 73 - straightforward (91%)
  • 80 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Books and civets

The publisher's office provides no particular barrier to a person of your skills. […] Later at your lodgings, the thing burns merrily. As the flames dance, […] you glimpse a calling card slipped into the manuscript […]. Is that an ocelot? A civet?

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Failure

A little late

The publisher's office provides no particular barrier to a person of your skills. When the rather rudimentary safe clicks open, there is no manuscript. There is a calling card with a picture of a... cat of some sort. Is that an ocelot? A civet?