Work long into the night forging a compromise solution

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From: The Acacia and the Butterfly


Both sides will consider a compromise a failure, but there’s more room for the person in the middle to profit...

Game Instructions: Considerable loss of both Connected: The Widow and Favours: The Docks


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 80

  • 55 - very chancy (41%)
  • 68 - chancy (51%)
  • 82 - modest (61%)
  • 95 - very modest (71%)
  • 108 - low-risk (81%)
  • 122 - straightforward (91%)
  • 134 - straightforward (100%)

Success

An end to hostilities

The talks are held on the Butterfly, a junk permitted […] at the Acacia dock […]. Negotiations are tense. […] Seeing the only alternative to be more unprofitable war, both sides agree to a deal neither is pleased with.[…] You […] pocket […] bribes from both sides.

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Failure

Not quite as planned

[…] As the night wears on an insult causes one side to draw blades. The other reciprocates. You leap between them to keep the violence from escalating and find yourself suffering a moderate-to-serious case of being stabbed. […]

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