Taking messages

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From: Courier for revolutionaries


The revolutionaries need someone not of their number to take messages quickly to their earthbound colleagues. Speed in the flit is dangerous: this will take courage and precision.


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 66

  • 46 - very chancy (41%)
  • 57 - chancy (51%)
  • 68 - modest (61%)
  • 79 - very modest (71%)
  • 90 - low-risk (81%)
  • 101 - straightforward (91%)
  • 110 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Up and under

You swing on what appears to be a ship's cable [...]studded with bat-traps and through a plume of delicious smoke rising from [..]. It's a close thing, but you hand over your satchel of messages [...]and you're away before the Constables show up.

Rare Success

A little bonus

You swing on what appears to be a ship's cable [...] studded with bat-traps and through a plume of delicious smoke [...] It's a close thing, but you hand over your satchel [...] presses a bulging leather wallet into your hands before he scurries off.


Failure

Who put that moss there?

You reflect as you dangle from moss-strewn guttering that leaping around a ramshackle aerial slum in the employment of bomb-throwing revolutionaries may not be an ideal choice for a long term career. Far below [...] gas-lamps sparkle uncaringly.