Use your Ornate Typewriter
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From: The Writer's Desk: work on your story!
Action Cost: 4
The beast lies gleaming, ready for the waking touch of your hand.
Game Instructions: Quite fast, less prone to uncertainty, but you need to know what you're doing.
Unlocked with 
1 x Ornate Typewriter
Challenge information
Broad, 
Persuasive 50
- 35 - very chancy (42%)
- 43 - chancy (51%)
- 51 - modest (61%)
- 60 - very modest (72%)
- 68 - low-risk (81%)
- 76 - straightforward (91%)
- 84 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Respectable speed
You hammer out a neat pile of pages. Surely something must be lost? Filter the human soul through a keyboard, and does not something essential disappear in translation? Possibly. But at least you don't have to faff around with blotting-paper.
Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 5 x Manuscript Page
Failure
The mechanisms of Hell
The gippet gets jammed in the trusset. The carriage head is disengaged from the spinkle. You've got ink all over your fingers, and a slightly wrinkled page of substandard work.
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained 1 x Manuscript Page
You've lost 1 x Potential
