Wrangle an escaped Ferrocephalus Viafactor 2

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ID: 263275

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From: Denizens of the Neath

The beast has got out of its pen and is wandering the city streets, laying track where none's wanted.

Unlocked with Patronage of the Prehistoricists

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 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%)
  

Narrow, Monstrous Anatomy 7 (50% base)

• 3 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 4 - high-risk (20%)
• 5 - high-risk (30%)
• 6 - tough (40%)
• 7 - very chancy (50%)
• 8 - chancy (60%)
• 9 - modest (70%)
• 10 - very modest (80%)
• 11 - low-risk (90%)
• 12 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

You could have told Cornelius

[varies]

Description summary:
Both paragraphs vary based on the city's Style.

Style	First Paragraph
Default	It needed proper containment. It needed well-trained keepers. It needed an adequate food supply. As a matter of fact, it has demands just like a Union member might.
Porous Ivory	It lives in a city very much designed for its convenience – or for creatures like it. The stables and kennels here are more magnificent than many a London townhouse. But even a spacious and luxurious accommodation was apparently insufficient [...]

Style	Second Paragraph
First City	You do get it back in its stable, though not before it has built a tram line across an authentic First City bridge and crushed all the gypsum paving in the main square.
Bethlehem	The layout of the city doesn’t help. The fountains will produce mammoth-milk whenever it passes by, distracting it and annoying all the citizens hoping for something more potable. But you get it back to its stable in the end.
Ivory	You do get it back in its stable in the end. It helps that the streets are wide enough to allow herding. It also helps to know that the Viafactor's mating call sounds like a bag of nails dropped from a height.
None School of Beatrice Porous Attenuated	You do get it back to its stable in the end, but you have to build a number of ramps first. It doesn't like staircases, and this place is nothing but.
Remembered Celestial Auroral Nocturnal Bazaarine Mycologene	You do get it back to its stable in the end. It helps to know that its mating call sounds like a bag of nails dropped from a height.
Terpsichorean	FATE
Cartographical	FATE
Cenotaphic	You do get it back to its stable in the end, but not before it has smashed a beloved sculpture of Sorrow Personified.
Heliconian True Beatrice	You do get it back to its stable in the end, but you have to build a number of ramps first. It doesn't like staircases, and the only slopes here are for push-chairs, not for house-sized animals.

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• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

You could have told Cornelius

[varies]

Someone more skilled might have been able to get the thing back in its pen. All you're able to achieve is driving it out of the city entirely – which at least minimises the number of trampled urchins in the street. You pay the price for the attempt […]

Description summary:
The first paragraph is the same as above.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  The City Waning is increasing… (+4 CP)
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)