The Mind and the Number
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Unlocked with a redirect from SEVEN IS THE NUMBER: Gain a Memory of Chains
Card drawn in Fallen London
Occurs with Standard Frequency
Options:
Arrange to be betrayed
- Spoiler Locked with
1 x Memory of Chains
Challenge information
A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 50%)
Success
The weight of chains
You have moved to a new area: New Newgate Prison - again!
- You have moved to a new setting: Imprisoned Return (hidden)
You've gained 1 x Memory of Chains
An occurrence! Your 'Suspicion' Quality is now 7 - A Desperate Fugitive!
You've lost 500 x Whispered Hint
You've lost 250 x Cryptic Clue
Wiki note: This outcome does not increase Criminal Record.
Failure
The wrong kind of betrayal
Wounds is increasing… (+10 CP)
You've lost 500 x Piece of Rostygold
You've lost 500 x Jade Fragment
You've lost 500 x Moon-Pearl
Another betrayal
- Spoiler Unlocked with
1-3 x Memory of Chains
Challenge information
A matter of luck: Pretty good odds (success chance: 70%)
Success
Laying out a trail
Success Instructions: Can you bear to do this seven times? Stop now, before it destroys you.
You have moved to a new area: New Newgate Prison - again!
- You have moved to a new setting: Imprisoned Return (hidden)
You've gained 1 x Memory of Chains
An occurrence! Your 'Suspicion' Quality is now 8 - Imprisoned!!
You've lost 500 x Moon-Pearl
You've lost 500 x Shard of Glim
You've lost 500 x Jade Fragment
You've lost 77 x Sudden Insight
Wiki note: This outcome does not increase Criminal Record. But that's not important, any more.
Failure
The wrong kind of betrayal
Wounds is increasing… (+10 CP)
You've lost 500 x Whispered Hint
You've lost 500 x Cryptic Clue
You have them now
- Spoiler Unlocked with
4-5 x Memory of Chains
Success
Burn them all
Success Instructions: Can you bear to do this seven times? Stop now, before it destroys you.
You have moved to a new area: New Newgate Prison - again!
- You have moved to a new setting: Imprisoned Return (hidden)
You've gained 1 x Memory of Chains
An occurrence! Your 'Suspicion' Quality is now 9 - Imprisoned!!
You've lost 250 x Proscribed Material
You've lost 250 x Stolen Correspondence
You've lost 77 x Sudden Insight
Wiki note: This does not increase Criminal Record. But you may develop a very different kind of ill reputation.
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All you know are chains
- Spoiler Unlocked with
exactly 6 x Memory of Chains
Success
Seven is the number
You have moved to a new area: New Newgate Prison - again!
- You have moved to a new setting: Imprisoned Return (hidden)
This branch clears your hand. (hidden) Wiki note: This affects your hand in New Newgate Prison, not London
You've gained 1 x Memory of Chains
An occurrence! Your 'Suspicion' Quality is now 10 - Imprisoned!!
You no longer have any of this: Bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing
You've lost 2500 x Whispered Hint
You've lost 500 x Cryptic Clue
You've lost 50 x Appalling Secret
You've lost 500 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879
You've lost 500 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882
You've lost 77 x Sudden Insight
You've lost 1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise
You've lost 25 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
You've lost 50 x Bottle of Morelways 1872
Wiki note: This does not increase Criminal Record. But you bear the marks all the same.
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