Use the cover of the crowd

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From: Four of Inversions: Exposure

You know how it is, when you're in a crowd. All that bumping and jostling. The unexpected brushes against someone else's skin.

Game Instructions: This will give you some progress; the Poison Tolerance of your Target will reduce it more than other branches.

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No one looks twice at the Page, even with their rather unusual choice of a dinner jacket for a day at the market. The target snatches his hand back as a tentacle wraps round it, but it's too late – the Page's suckers have left livid, greenish rings.

•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(4-5 - 1 with The Embalmer's Mark - (2 × Tolerance)) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on Hearts' Game: Turns this Round) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+1-3 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)