Be cruel

ID: 250270, 250273

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From: What Will you do About the Cloistered Diatomist?

Perhaps it's just to make sure the parting sticks. But you'll certainly ensure that he'll cease monopolising your time.

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Challenge information

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• 11 - very chancy (41%)
• 14 - chancy (52%)
• 17 - modest (63%)
• 19 - very modest (71%)
• 22 - low-risk (82%)
• 25 - straightforward (93%)
• 27 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Cut to the quick

He is slow to accept that your relationship was a mere tool […] You proved your ability to infiltrate an elusive social sphere […] His friendship boosted your social cachet; the same action removed the last vestiges of his own.

He does not leave quietly. […]

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
• Your 'Enticement: Cloistered Diatomist' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip

Redirects to: A Storied Life (if is exactly 1)

Failure

Unfazed

If he is wounded by the declaration that you sought his friendship only to prove yourself in society, he does not show it. […] It would never occur to me that one could become the height of society by merely avoiding it." He […] nods a farewell […]

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
• An occurrence! Your 'Enticement: Cloistered Diatomist' Quality is now 2 - Tantalising a Diatomist!

Redirects to: A Storied Life (if is exactly 1)