Contrive a little 'accident'

ID: 5300

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From: The Rival

Your competitor is better-dressed than you, and more attractive, and this is simply not to be borne. Fill your goblet to the brim with Greyfields' most acidic vintage red, then go and find your rival.

Challenge information

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• 46 - very chancy (41%)
• 57 - chancy (51%)
• 68 - modest (61%)
• 79 - very modest (71%)
• 90 - low-risk (81%)
• 101 - straightforward (91%)
• 110 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

'Oh my goodness! How inexcusably clumsy of me!'

You 'trip' daintily at exactly the right moment [...] and your rival is left gasping and dripping like a fish out of water [...] Your heartfelt exclamations of guilt make you seem so kind and solicitous, too [...]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 21 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
•  You've gained 30 x Silk Scrap

Failure

Where did that child come from?

[...] A small boy [...] comes careering out of nowhere, and cannons into you. Wine goes everywhere [...] Best to leave now before any more damage is done. Besides, you look terrible. Red is not your colour.

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)