Ask the Esurient Smith to examine your Skyglass Knives

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From: Ambition Nemesis – Is this the Dagger?


"Seven and seven and seven. These are inferior blades and so I require a superior quantity.."

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Wiki note: If you fail, you'll lose "a portion" of the knives, and each failure increases your chance of success for the next attempt (from 60%, to 80% to 100%). The cost of the needed knives is 4,972.8 E . You may want to consult Money-Making.


Challenge information

A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 60%)

Each point of reduces the base difficulty by 20% points.

Success

The mirror crack'd

Seven hundred and seventy six blades go down into the flames, steel melting into a slim puddle […]

The Smith pays it little mind. […] he exclaims. "This is it."

He plucks a shard from the burning slag […] This is the missing shard. You will not lose it now.

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Failure

"Dross, all dross."

The Esurient Smith melts each knife into glass and ash […]

"It was never likely. These blades are poor quality; dull. They barely whet the appetite […] Try again, if you will. But the Masters of the Bazaar usually deal in richer fare."

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