Intercept a Message

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From: The Heights of Chicanery


You know enough to work out when a courier will be carrying something substantial. All you have to do is remove it quietly.

Game Instructions: Trade in your Seeking... for rewards.

Unlocked with  5


Challenge information

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, 3 (50% base)

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

Success

Ciphers and bats

[…] you pass the courier […] and deftly take the message. You are away before he is any the wiser.

Aha! The content[…] is encrypted, […] about some deaths behind a theatre in Veilgarden. […] The glass? And deliveries by trained bats. Interesting.

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Failure

Dust in the wind

It's not the courier that you were expecting. […] he's spooked by your appearance and bolts. You follow, but before you can catch him he pulls out the message and shreds it, casting the pieces down to flutter away in the smoky air. […]

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