Take a sideways approach

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From: Nine of Inversions: Fortress

Walls and armed thugs are all well and good, but they only serve against conventional threats.

Game Instructions: This will give you some progress; the Poison Tolerance of your Target will reduce it more than other branches.

Success

Plumbing, too, can be a weapon

The Page sheds their dinner jacket and vanishes through a crack in the floor. Nestled within the house's pipework, they wait, poison at the ready, for the target to turn on a tap.

•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(3-4 - 1 with The Embalmer's Mark - (2 × Tolerance)) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+1-3 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)