Turn it to your advantage
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From: Obstacle: an Inconvenient Door
You know where the servant takes his dinner, which night he drinks with his friends, and how long he can last before needing the privy.
Game Instructions: Turn this Obstacle into a beneficial Opening card, and gain substantial Progress.
Unlocked with 
8 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
Challenge information
- 143 - very chancy (41%)
- 178 - chancy (51%)
- 212 - modest (61%)
- 247 - very modest (71%)
- 282 - low-risk (81%)
- 316 - straightforward (91%)
- 348 - straightforward (100%)
Shadowy, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (41.66 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.
Success
The way is clear
You relieve the servant of his keyring as he totters to the lavatory, make a plaster mold of it while he's indisposed, and slide the original back into his pocket when he returns to his friends. Your mark's doors and locks are nothing to you now.
Shadowy is increasing…
You've lost 8 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
You've gained 25 x Flash Lay's Progress
You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: an Inconvenient Door
You've gained 1 x A Flash Lay: A Ring of Duplicate Keys
Failure
"What're you after, eh?"
He catches your hand in his pocket; perhaps you approached him a few drinks too early? At least your false-beard ensures he doesn't recognise you. And your drunken act defuses the situation enough to keep the Constables out of it.
- Shadowy is increasing…
Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)- You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
