A Sudden Shadow!

ID: 335284

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Why, you can hardly walk through London these days without being accosted by a longshanks brandishing a knife.

Game Instructions: An acquaintance you slighted has retaliated! All options on this card will reduce your Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe quality.

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Occurs with Abundant Frequency (5 x as common as Standard)

Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.

Options:

Fight him off

•  Spoiler ID: 246101
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 171 || 117 - very chancy (41%) || 146 - chancy (51%) || 174 - modest (61%) || 203 - very modest (71%) || 231 - low-risk (81%) || 260 - straightforward (91%) || 285 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Challenge difficulty is 0.9 × Base Dangerous. Value shown is for Dangerous of 190 before equipment modifiers.

  Success

  A scuffle

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  Dangerous is increasing… (+2 to +50 CP, up to level 200 + )
  •  You've gained 1 x Nodule of Trembling Amber
  •  You've gained 1 x Memento of Violence

  Failure

  Bleeding

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  Dangerous is increasing… (+? CP, up to level 200 + )
  •  You've gained 50 x Surface-Silk Scrap
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+6 CP)

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Shift your organs out of the way

•  Spoiler ID: 246102
  

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  Challenge information

  Narrow, 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

  A squirming

  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  You've gained 1 x Ivory Humerus
  •  Shapeling Arts is increasing… (+1 CP, if present, up to level 5 + )

  Failure

  A lot of squirming

  •  You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  You've gained 500 x Bone Fragments
  •  Shapeling Arts is increasing… (+1 CP, if present, up to level 5 + )
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1-7? CP)

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Allow yourself to be stabbed (No Horsehead Amulet)

•  Spoiler ID: 246103
  

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  Success

  Ow

  • You have moved to a new area: a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river
  • You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Wounds' Quality is now 8 - The Spirit has Departed!

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Allow yourself to be stabbed (Horsehead Amulet)

•  Spoiler ID: 253663
  

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  Success

  Ow

  • You've lost 1 x Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Wounds' Quality is now 8 - The Spirit has Departed!

  Redirects to: Something convulses violently against your chest

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