The advert need not show people

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From: A commission for the Genre Painter

He has little trouble painting inanimate objects.

Game Instructions: This has a small chance of granting a Confident Smile.

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 15

• 11 - very chancy (44%)
• 13 - chancy (52%)
• 16 - modest (64%)
• 18 - very modest (72%)
• 21 - low-risk (84%)
• 23 - straightforward (92%)
• 25 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of Advertising Profile: Enterprise increases the base difficulty by 4 points.

Success

An effective advertisement

The advertisement is bold and evocative.[…] the Genre Painter is nonchalant. "There's very little actual truth to a painting unless the subjects have souls[…] I can paint inanimate objects just as[…] described. My mind stays in my head[…] It doesn't[…]go anywhere."

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Advertising Profile: Campaign Duration is dropping… (-1 CP)
•  You've gained 167 + (2 * Advertising Profile: Enterprise) x (tentative) Advertising Profile: Name Recognition

Failure

It draws the wrong kind of attention

The Genre Painter's finished painting […] is not explicitly obscene, but still deeply unsettling. […] "It's just the way you described it. Perhaps you put too much feeling into your brief. Too much truth."

London is scandalised by the image […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've lost ? x Advertising Profile: Name Recognition (126 with 21 Enterprise)