A Complication: the Starving Poet is meeting with Anarchists

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The Starving Poet, you learn, is employing his pitiful savings to purchase eel pies for a gang of anarchists... and receiving some sort of documents in return. How will you proceed?

Game Instructions: Resolving this situation will give you further Progress.

Unlocked with Engaged in a Case: the Starving Poet, Complication: a Revolutionary Connection exactly 1

Card drawn in Fallen London

Occurs with High Urgency (always drawn before other cards)

Options:

Attend one of the Poet's readings

Spoiler ID: 30361
Unlocked with Complication: a Revolutionary Connection 1, Detective's Progress 12

Challenge information

Broad, <span class="il-unknown<spanclass="smw-highlighter"data-type="4"data-state="inline"data-title="warning"title="thesymbol"[["wasusedinaplacewhereitisnotuseful.thepart""ofthequerywasnotunderstood.resultsmightnotbeasexpected.thepart"]]"ofthequerywasnotunderstood.resultsmightnotbeasexpected."><spanclass="smwtticonwarning"><spanclass="smwttcontent"><ul><li>thesymbol"[["wasusedinaplacewhereitisnotuseful.</li><li>thepart""ofthequerywasnotunderstood.resultsmightnotbeasexpected.</li><li>thepart"]]"ofthequerywasnotunderstood.resultsmightnotbeasexpected.</li></ul>">[[File:Question.pngThe query description has an empty condition.|20px|link=|alt=]] [[ Watchful]] 30 || 21 - very chancy (42%) || 26 - chancy (52%) || 31 - modest (62%) || 36 - very modest (72%) || 41 - low-risk (82%) || 46 - straightforward (92%) || 50 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A paper tiger
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained 2 x Detective's Progress
- Your 'Complication: a Revolutionary Connection' Quality has gone!
Failure

An elusive quarry
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've lost 1 x Detective's Progress
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