Your Salon: invite the Duchess as a guest of honour

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From: The Tower of Eyes: Behind Closed Doors at a Handsome Townhouse

Action Cost: 2

...would she attend? She is not an easy guest, but she has a brilliant mind and a wondrously savage tongue. And you have an old friend of hers in your household.

Game Instructions: This may mean you lose your Midnight Matriarch.

Unlocked with 1 x A Salon, Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon 12, Connected: The Duchess 10, 1 x Midnight Matriarch, The Airs of London 25–50

Success

A rapprochement

The Duchess arrives punctually […] It is a full hour before she comes face-to-face with the Matriarch […]

[…] "Your impertinence is more charming than I had remembered."

When the evening ends, they are still talking. They leave together.

Description summary:
The Duchess and the Matriarch resolve an ancient disagreement.

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•  You've lost 1 x Midnight Matriarch

•  Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon is dropping… (-65 CP)
•  Making Waves is increasing… (+850 CP)
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)
•  You've gained 1 x Intriguing Snippet
•  You've gained 1 x Favour in High Places

Rare Success

An ancient enmity

The Duchess arrives punctually […] a full hour before she comes face-to-face with the Matriarch […]

[…] "I have enjoyed your hospitality. A pity that you permit vermin under your roof. Yonder on the table! Is that a fat black rat?"

[…]

The guests filter out […] hastily […]

Description summary:
The Duchess and the Matriarch have a disagreement about a promise the Matriarch made in the days of the Copper. The Matriarch ends it by insulting the Duchess, then ignoring her in a feline manner. The Duchess thanks you for the hospitality, insulting the Matriarch in the process, and leaves, followed by everyone else. The Matriarch is not amused and wants to be left alone.

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

•  Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon is dropping… (-65 CP)
•  Making Waves is increasing… (+650 CP)
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)
•  You've gained 1 x Incendiary Gossip