They asked for it. They want blood? Give them blood!

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From: Commission: Immortalise Jack-of-Smiles in Another Penny Dreadful!: the Resolution!


Turn in a piece so savage, so terrifying, so gruesome and detailed that it may be banned before it ever gets off the presses.


Challenge information

Narrow, Inspired... 7 (50% base)

  • 5 - high-risk (30%)
  • 6 - tough (40%)
  • 7 - very chancy (50%)
  • 8 - chancy (60%)
  • 9 - modest (70%)
  • 10 - very modest (80%)
  • 11 - low-risk (90%)
  • 12 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

[formal address], this is quite an achievement. You'll excuse me if I don't shake your hand.

[…] Your work gives nine hundred readers nightmares. […]

[…] You receive an unexpected bonus: late one night, a stranger delivers a package of bottled souls to your door. You don't see his face, but a note with the package reads: 'Best wishes – Jack'

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


Failure

You, [formal address], are a maniac! Get out of my office before I call the constables!

As you leave, you hear a clerk being given instructions to fling your manuscript into the furnace.