Double-cross him!

ID: 5372

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From: The Antiquarian Footman

You have no attachment to this footman. You do have a deep attachment to expensive, sparkly items. Honour among thieves? What nonsense is this? This plan will take a little research, though.

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Challenge information

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• 54 - very chancy (41%)
• 67 - chancy (51%)
• 80 - modest (61%)
• 93 - very modest (71%)
• 106 - low-risk (81%)
• 119 - straightforward (91%)
• 130 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

You are a brilliant actor.

Not only do you trick him out of some very fine stolen goods, but you also take advance payments from fences you have promised them to.

Then you tell the criminals that the footman did not deliver, and step out of the way as nature takes its course.

• Persuasive is increasing…
• You've lost 15 x Cryptic Clue
•  You've gained 78 x Nodule of Deep Amber
•  Heartless is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5)

Failure

Double-crossed by your own mark

[…] The footman is not the simple soul you took him for […] Now he has made off with the profits from a particularly good haul, after dropping hints all around the Palace that you are some sort of kleptomaniac. […]

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
• You've lost 15 x Cryptic Clue