Attune the toxin to his dreams

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From: Five of Talons: Entanglement

The Knights of Talons and Nobility have a plan: to slip the poison into the target's nightmares.

Game Instructions: This will give you some progress.

Unlocked with  4,

Challenge information

Narrow, 12 (50% base)

• 8 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 9 - high-risk (20%)
• 10 - high-risk (30%)
• 11 - tough (40%)
• 12 - very chancy (50%)
• 13 - chancy (60%)
• 14 - modest (70%)
• 15 - very modest (80%)
• 16 - low-risk (90%)
• 17 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of increases the base difficulty by 2 points.

Success

Noxious nightmares

[…] mix a very particular selection of toxins[…] add […] honey, pilfered from the target's latest sojourn to the dens. […] you pour the solution onto the surface of a painstakingly prepared mirror.

"And they say the arts of the Sere Palace are lost," sights […] Nobility. […]

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

•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(5 + 1 with - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on ) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on ) ^{What does this mean?}
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)

Failure

Not quite

Perhaps the expertises of the two Knights work in opposition. Perhaps, […] you simply failed to carry out […] their instructions to the letter. […] the final mixture is corrosive to the Knight of Talons' vials, and smells pungently of a childhood nightmare.

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

•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on ) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on ) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+0-1 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)