The Singing Mandrake (storylet)
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The Singing Mandrake
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Tell a risqué joke (LAUGH, DAMN YOU)
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Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 1 || 1 - chancy (60%) || 2 - straightforward (100%)Success
You store that one away for future use
Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 1 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882
Rare Success
You store that one away for future use
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained 2 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882
[The Airs of London change…] (random)
Failure
That didn't go down well.
- Persuasive is increasing…
Tell a politically dangerous joke (LAUGH...QUIETLY)
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Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 4 || 1 - high-risk (15%) || 2 - high-risk (30%) || 3 - very chancy (45%) || 4 - chancy (60%) || 5 - very modest (75%) || 6 - low-risk (90%) || 7 - straightforward (100%)Success
A roar of laughter!
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained 4 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
Failure
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
- Persuasive is increasing…
Chat to a Tipsy Spy (CHAT)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
1 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 3 || 1 - high-risk (20%) || 2 - tough (40%) || 3 - chancy (60%) || 4 - very modest (80%) || 5 - straightforward (100%)Success
Wine and company loosen her tongue
- Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 10 x Whispered Hint- You've lost 1 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882
Failure
No luck
- Persuasive is increasing…
Spread some currency around
- Spoiler Unlocked with
100 x Piece of Rostygold
Success
Surely not
You've gained 2 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
You've lost 100 x Piece of Rostygold
You've gained 2 x Inkling of Identity
Mock an Insufferable Poseur (CASTIGATE)
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Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 5 || 3 - tough (36%) || 4 - very chancy (48%) || 5 - chancy (60%) || 6 - very modest (72%) || 7 - low-risk (84%) || 8 - straightforward (96%) || 9 - straightforward (100%)Success
A surgical coup
- Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 10 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879
Rare Success
An unexpected sensation!
- Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 1 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe
You've gained 1 x Bottle of Morelways 1872
Failure
A formidable presence
- Persuasive is increasing…
Seduce a Struggling Artist
- Spoiler Action Cost: 0
Unlocked with
Persuasive 9
Locked with
An Admirer of Art -, Seduction: Artist
Redirects to:
^
Seduce a Struggling Artist's Model
- Spoiler Action Cost: 0
Unlocked with Persuasive 9
Locked with
An Admirer of Beauty -, Seduction: Artist's Model
Redirects to:
→ Seduce a Struggling Artist's Model
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Begin 'The Blemmigan Affair' – a substantial story (30 FATE)
- Spoiler Action Cost: 0
Locked with
The Blemmigan Affair
Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
An occurrence! Your 'The Blemmigan Affair' Quality is now 1!
Redirects to: An escaped blemmigan!
^
Change your 
Identified with a School: affiliation
Write a lewd satirical song about the Grand Hunt of the Devils
- Spoiler Unlocked with
2 x Tale of Terror!!, 
2 x Journal of Infamy, 
Daring 4, 
Identified with a School:
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
A success!
- Persuasive is increasing…
Making Waves is increasing… (+1-12 CP)
Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
You are most often associated with the Nocturnal movement. (Sets Identified with a School: to 1 - The Nocturnals)
You've lost 2 x Tale of Terror!!
You've lost 2 x Journal of Infamy
Failure
Not as popular as you'd hoped
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Scandal is increasing… (+3 CP)
Rewrite a collection of sea-shanties
- Spoiler Unlocked with
2 x Zee-Ztory, 
2 x Memory of Distant Shores, 
Subtle 4, Identified with a School:
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
"Go drown the bloody roses, go drown..."
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Making Waves is increasing… (+1-5 CP)
You've lost 2 x Memory of Distant Shores
You've lost 2 x Zee-Ztory- You are most often associated with the Bazaarine movement. (Sets Identified with a School: to 2 - The Bazaarines)
Failure
A mysterious dissatisfaction
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've lost 2 x Memory of Distant Shores
- You've lost 2 x Zee-Ztory
You've gained 175 x Penny
Finish a libretto
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3 x Vision of the Surface, 
5 x Romantic Notion, 
Melancholy 4, Identified with a School:
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
A good run
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Scandal is dropping… (-1 CP)
- Making Waves is increasing… (+1-5 CP)
You've lost 3 x Vision of the Surface
You've lost 5 x Romantic Notion- You are most often associated with the Celestial movement. (Sets Identified with a School: to 3)
Failure
So far below
- Persuasive is increasing…
Adopt a pseudonym and circulate a sensual villanelle
- Spoiler Unlocked with
4 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip, 
Hedonist 4, Identified with a School:, The Blemmigan Affair 98
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
- Persuasive is increasing…
- An occurrence! Your 'Identified with a School:' Quality is now 4 - The Mycologenes, persecuted devotees of the Blemmigan Poets and their passionate, fungal aesthetic!
Subtle is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
Forceful is dropping… (-3 CP)- Making Waves is increasing… (+1-8 CP)
You've gained 5 x Secluded Address
You've gained 2 x Compromising Document- You've lost 4 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Failure
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
- Persuasive is increasing…
Suspicion is increasing… (+1 CP)
Engrave a poem upon a brass tablet
- Spoiler Unlocked with
50 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 
1 x Extraordinary Implication, Identified with a School:, 
1 x The Rose Giveth Its Verses to Devils and Also to You
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Making Waves is increasing… (+1-12? CP)
Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)- Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
- An occurrence! Your 'Identified with a School:' Quality is now 5 - The Terpsichoreans, foolhardy few who learn an infernal language of dance!
You've lost 50 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
You've lost 1 x Extraordinary Implication- You've gained 8 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe
Failure
No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've lost 50 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Start an argument with a leading light of your favoured school
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Identified with a School: 1–4
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
A line in a gossip column
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
- Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)
- Making Waves is increasing… (+1-3 CP)
- Forceful is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
- Subtle is dropping… (-3 CP)
- You reject all labels and associations! You are your own creature. (Sets Identified with a School: to 100 - You reject all labels and associations! You are your own creature.)
Failure
"The only thing worse than being talked about..."
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)
The Coilheart Games
Drink with the Keeper of the Dyes
- Spoiler Unlocked with
The Coilheart Games is 2 (World Quality, now locked), Of Stripes, and Coils 100-299, 
Coilheart Tigers 10
Locked with
Lead: Under Orders
Success
Banded belligerence
You've spoken to a drunken tiger, who resents his orders. (Raises 
Lead: Under Orders by 1)
Huffam will want to hear of this. And then double-check it scrupulously. (Raises 
Bearing Valuable Leads by 1)
