The Duchess enjoys controversy
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From: Entry to the Duchess' Salon
The easiest way to catch her attention is to be a little bit exceptional. You could be excitingly Radical. Of course, this sort of thing can rapidly get out of control.
Challenge information
Broad, 
Persuasive 61
- 42 - very chancy (41%)
- 52 - chancy (51%)
- 63 - modest (61%)
- 73 - very modest (71%)
- 83 - low-risk (81%)
- 93 - straightforward (91%)
- 102 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Pyrotechnic rhetoric
You get drunk with a couple of more politically active friends […] picking up some interesting gossip as you go. You put out a few essays and reviews with a teasingly Radical slant. The Duchess […] is entertained, perhaps even impressed.
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Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 30 x Cryptic Clue
Connected: The Duchess is increasing… (+5 CP)
Rare Success
Explosive rhetoric
[…] impressed. Unfortunately a gang of local anarchists is similarly engaged. […] You hurl abuse and household refuse at them […] they seem […] pleased by this evidence of your fiery spirit. You've attracted a little of the wrong kind of attention.
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- Persuasive is increasing…
Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)
Suspicion is increasing… (+1 CP)- Connected: The Duchess is increasing… (+5 CP)
- You've gained 31 x Cryptic Clue
Failure
A damp squib
You get drunk with a couple of more politically active friends to make sure you're up on the jargon […] Unfortunately the only place you can find to publish them is a journal so low and scurrilous the Duchess will likely never read it.
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- Persuasive is increasing…
- Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)
- Suspicion is increasing… (+1 CP)
