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From: Beguile a Useful Official

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• 18 - very chancy (43%)
• 22 - chancy (52%)
• 26 - modest (62%)
• 30 - very modest (72%)
• 34 - low-risk (81%)
• 38 - straightforward (91%)
• 42 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Flattery: a deadly weapon in the hands of a professional

The man melts like butter. The autograph is yours! You return safely to your lodgings. Your employer from the Tomb-Colonies hands you a fragment of bandage on which she has written certain secret truths. 'Don't lose it,' she hisses.

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 21-30 x Whispered Hint
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)
•  You've gained 2 x Silk Scrap

Alternative Success

Colonial struggles

[…]"It's this[…]Port Carnelian affair. It's all very well for the F.O. to declare we need to 'make a statement' and drop a colony in the Unterzee, but then we have to keep making that b___y statement every day, don't we? And what if it falls, eh?"[…]

Description summary:
The Official is in no mood to give autographs. He is in a mood to vent, angrily. About confidential foreign office decisions. Your sympathy nets you a little stock of secrets.

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Playing the Game
•  You've gained 27-30 x Whispered Hint
•  You've gained 5 x Silk Scrap
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)

Failure

He's growing suspicious...

Perhaps you laid it on a little thick. He doesn't really look like a Roman emperor. Well, Nero, maybe.

• Persuasive is increasing…
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)