Defend a client with applied counterepistolography

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From: The Business of a Correspondent

A Scarred Mondaine has attracted the ire of a Correspondent. Keep watch over her incoming letters.

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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%)
  

Property "Against" (as page type) with input value "" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category: Challenge]]Narrow, 0 (50% base)

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

Success

A curious courtship

[...] A petition for— There.

A binary star, entwined in eternal opposition. An ocean, lost underwater. A wounded animal that lashes out with claws and teeth and baffled, terrified love.

[...] You present the enervated letter to your client. [...]

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Services Rendered: Society
• [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

Lapsed attention

Screening the […] post is a tedious affair. She has become wary […] since the letter trapped with love-excising sigils. […] The maid stays now at the Royal Beth […]

[…] You slide another envelope […] it promptly catches fire. […] the Mondaine will get no mail today.

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

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