Take a deep gulp

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From: Drink from the fountain in the lobby

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Game Instructions: Your Persuasive may suffer if this goes wrong. Hint: you don't want to succeed in this Nightmares challenge.

Challenge information

Narrow, Nightmares 8 (50% base)

• 4 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 5 - high-risk (20%)
• 6 - high-risk (30%)
• 7 - tough (40%)
• 8 - very chancy (50%)
• 9 - chancy (60%)
• 10 - modest (70%)
• 11 - very modest (80%)
• 12 - low-risk (90%)
• 13 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

You splutter and gag as the stuff goes down your throat

It tastes of donkeys! Well, a donkey. You bray in disgust and dismay. You gallop around the lobby, lashing your tail in outrage. Eventually you are caught, hobbled and led into the garden to eat onion-skins and sprouts.

•  Persuasive is dropping… (-4 CP)

Failure

Ah, refreshing

You don't speak in your own voice after drinking, but your voice is pleasant and silvery. You can feel droplets rolling off your tongue like mercury. If mercury wasn't poisonous and tasted very slightly like moonlight. Ah, moonlight. [...]