Choose fashion over flirtation

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From: Attend a ball in aid of... some cause or another


At one end of the room, two attendees studiously ignore each other to the amusement of the others. You are above such things.


Challenge information

Narrow, 4 (50% base)

  • 6 - modest (70%)
  • 7 - very modest (80%)
  • 8 - low-risk (90%)
  • 9 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Your priorities, noted

Your head is turned neither by the looks of the Acclaimed Beauty, nor the quips of the Barbed Wit. […] But when you enter conversation with the eldest Fashion-Fly and discuss her Imperial Majesty's fondness for floral motifs […], murmurs arise. […]

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Failure

A third in their dance?

So scrupulously do you avoid the Wit and the Beauty, those present begin to talk. Did something happen between you and them? Or is this a ploy to seem aloof, unavailable? Are you actually seeking the attention of one – or both – of them?