A Sudden Shadow!

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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.

Unlocked with

Card drawn in

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

Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.

Options:

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Fight him off
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Shift your organs out of the way
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    Unlocked with

     

    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

    Failure

    A lot of squirming

    ^
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Allow yourself to be stabbed (No Horsehead Amulet)
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Allow yourself to be stabbed (Horsehead Amulet)