Work through a trusted intermediary

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From: Refresh your Consumables


Your buyer has contacts – and can conceal where the goods are going. Ordinarily, if a supplier knows the University is paying, prices instantly rise to account for a sudden catastrophic shortage.

Game Instructions: The more Equipment you have, the greater the value of your work will be. You will always make at least some progress here.

Unlocked with Equipment for Scientific Experimentation, Experimental Object


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 150

  • 103 - very chancy (41%)
  • 128 - chancy (51%)
  • 153 - modest (61%)
  • 178 - very modest (71%)
  • 203 - low-risk (81%)
  • 228 - straightforward (91%)
  • 250 - straightforward (100%)

Challenge is not affected by Research Preparations

Success

Copious quantities

You're paying the same amount and getting more, these days.[…] "They were supposed to be used in the manufacture of Mirrorcatch Boxes, only the Factory shut." […] raw materials, the grist to your mill. For once quantity is preferable to quality.

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Alternative Success

Accomplished and clever

A devil from the Brass Embassy comes snooping about. Is your Buyer available? Might he like to take on some additional work, […] Freelance purchasing, as you might say?

The Buyer takes the meeting alone, […] your laboratory has an extra supply of […] Brass […]

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Failure

The beginnings of a reputation

When you pass a shop, the curtains twitch shut. Modistes discourage you from admiring their work. Wholesalers of Viennese lace pretend to be out of supply. […] Plainly your Buyer is making you a name for hard bargaining.

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Rare Failure

Persuasion in which direction?

Your buyer gives you the bad news while packing. […] He asked for a price that... well, in retrospect, was foolish. Ludicrous! Unjustifiable. He's sorry to leave you like this, but he needs to spend some time out of the public eye. The Tomb Colonies. […]

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