The rats are growing cautious

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You've enjoyed initial successes in your campaign against the rats. Now they're switching tactics. They post watch-rats and employ anti-trap squads.

Unlocked with Troubled by Vermin 14

Storylet appears in Your Lodgings

Options:

Employ a rat-catcher

•  Spoiler 
  

  Unlocked with Troubled by Vermin 6-49, The Airs of London 6-35, 50 x Piece of Rostygold
  

   

  Challenge information

  A matter of luck: Pretty good odds (success chance: 70%)

  Success

  Effective up to a point

  • You've lost 50 x Piece of Rostygold
  • [The Airs of London change…] (random)
  • You've lost 5 x Troubled by Vermin
  •  You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin: Ratkiller (hidden)

  Failure

  Betrayal!

  • You've lost 3 x Troubled by Vermin
  • You've lost 50 x Piece of Rostygold
  • [The Airs of London change…] (random)
  •  You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin: Ratkiller (hidden)

  ^

Redouble your efforts

•  Spoiler 
  

  Unlocked with Troubled by Vermin 5-49, The Airs of London 67-100
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Dangerous 23 || 16 - very chancy (41%) || 20 - chancy (52%) || 24 - modest (62%) || 28 - very modest (73%) || 32 - low-risk (83%) || 35 - straightforward (91%) || 39 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Progress

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  • You've lost 2 x Troubled by Vermin
  •  You've gained 16 - 25 x Rat on a String
  • [The Airs of London change…] (random)
  •  You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin: Ratkiller (hidden)

  Failure

  Not out-foxed, but certainly out-ratted

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  • You've lost 1 x Troubled by Vermin
  • [The Airs of London change…] (random)
  •  You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin: Ratkiller (hidden)

  ^

Unleash the Thing from the Wardrobe

•  Spoiler 
  

  Unlocked with Troubled by Vermin 8-49, The Airs of London 36-60, 1 x Starveling Cat
  

   

  Challenge information

  A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 50%)

  Success

  Success?

  • You've lost 1 x Starveling Cat
  •  You've gained 2 x Unaccountably Peckish (up to 10)
  •  Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • [The Airs of London change…] (random)
  • You've lost (half) Troubled by Vermin
  •  You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin: Ratkiller (hidden)

  Failure

  Mysteriously absent

  • You've lost 2 x Troubled by Vermin
  • [The Airs of London change…] (random)
  •  You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin: Ratkiller (hidden)

  ^