Bend the rules a little

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From: Six of Spines: Singularity

Some shots must be aimed from both ends.

Game Instructions: This will give you some progress.

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Challenge information

Broad, 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of increases the base difficulty by 30 points.

Success

An elaborate plan

You send the target an invitation[...] to a restaurant where [...] he will not be able to resist ordering a specific dish.

The bullet is shot [...] through several pieces of local architecture[...] it lands exactly in the[...] target's aspic [...] suspended[...] leaching the poison[...]

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(12 - 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

Perhaps too difficult

You assemble an elaborate plan[...] Unfortunately, your calculations are a little off (or the King simply missed – perish the thought), and you spend a few hours dealing with the consequences of putting a new hole in Mrs ______'s prized fascinator.

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  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)