The Constable is young, naive
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From: Obstacle: Legal Complications
Perhaps you can recruit her. Arrange to walk with the Constable later, through the darker paths of London. Show her how the law brings no light there.
Game Instructions: Turn this Obstacle into a beneficial Opening card, and gain substantial Progress.
Unlocked with 
8 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
Challenge information
- 143 - very chancy (41%)
- 178 - chancy (51%)
- 212 - modest (61%)
- 247 - very modest (71%)
- 282 - low-risk (81%)
- 316 - straightforward (91%)
- 348 - straightforward (100%)
Shadowy, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (41.66 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.
Success
A cunning speech
You gesture towards a particularly pathetic urchin. "Why punish the starving for begging? Most do what they must, not what they will." It is not long before your rhetoric is impassioned.
You raise the idea […] The Constable nods. It is too easy.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Shadowy is increasing…
You've lost 8 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
You've lost 1 x Flash Lay: Legal Complications
You've gained 1 x A Flash Lay: Corrupt Constable
You've gained 25 x Flash Lay's Progress
Failure
A motivated speech
As you gesture towards a particularly pathetic urchin, you introduce the idea of liberating funds for the greater good. The Constable frowns sharply. […]you press […] It is your undoing. "One of those, are you?" The Constable says. "Should've known."
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Shadowy is increasing…
Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)- You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
