Drop poison from a mechanical bird

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ID: 259800

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From: Ten of Knuckles: Mechanisms

This can't possibly work. Can it?

Game Instructions: This will give you progress scaling with the Elusiveness of your Target.

Unlocked with  5

Challenge information

Broad, 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of increases the base difficulty by 30 points.

Success

Wine of the week

[…] the target sometimes joins his vintner on a Veilgarden rooftop […] The King […] trains a theodolite on the target's wine glass […]

The mechanical bird […] drops its claret-coloured payload. A hit! The target […] takes a leisurely draft, savouring […]. The King snorts.

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

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+((2 * Elusiveness) + 1 with - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on ) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on ) ^{What does this mean?}
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)

Failure

Terminal trajectory

[…]

The mechanical bird makes it halfway across the street before the clockwork seizes up and it plummets, smashing through an upstairs window. The King erupts in rage and you have to wrestle him from the rooftop before the target notices.

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

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
•  Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on ) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on ) ^{What does this mean?}
•  Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+0-1 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)