Test supplies for poisons

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From: Aiding a Feast: Hearts and Stomachs


With ingredients arriving from the length and breadth of the Miser-Roads, it pays to be sure. Even here. Especially here.


Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 10 (50% base)

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

Success

Flora and fauna

This moss causes paralysis. Prepared improperly, the meat of a False-Hermit is a severe diuretic. These mushrooms […] may be as yet unknown to Neathy science. None of this speaks of deliberate poisoning, but the Burgundians' lack of experience […] is clear.

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Failure

Indigestion

This imported Greyfields from London is only poisonous when ingested in concert with the enormous gorge-flies provided by the French hunting party […]

Neither eventuality is much comfort to your stomach […] At least this will not happen at the feast.

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