Catch up with international affairs

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From: The Business of a Midnighter

Many visiting diplomats stay at the Actaeon Hotel. In their private rooms, they often make unguarded remarks; remarks a Worldly Devil will pay for.

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Challenge information

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• 62 - very chancy (41%)
• 77 - chancy (51%)
• 92 - modest (61%)
• 107 - very modest (71%)
• 122 - low-risk (81%)
• 137 - straightforward (91%)
• 150 - straightforward (100%)
  

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• 0 - very chancy (50%)
• 1 - chancy (60%)
• 2 - modest (70%)
• 3 - very modest (80%)
• 4 - low-risk (90%)
• 5 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

An invisible listener

The route to the Actaeon is familiar […]

Hanging bat-like outside his window, you hear anti-Ottoman sentiment from the Bulgarian ambassador. Two rooms over, a German […] works late on her strategy for tomorrow's trade negotiations […]

You note everything […]

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Services Rendered: Hell
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 320 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Mysterious Client Attention Odds (hidden)

Depending on :

•  An interested party has made a request on your skills. (Sets Attracting the Attention of a Mysterious Client to 1)

Failure

Liminal space

The route […] is familiar […]

[…] You hear a few minutes of confidential material from the Italian representative before you brush a section of old plaster with your foot and it crumbles […]

You slip silently back up […] and […] drop a rat to cover your tracks.

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 200 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies