Learn all you can from the target's dreams

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From: Seven of Nobility: Repose

Some say that one's dreams are a way for the mind to organise the events of the day. Others contend that if that were true, there would be fewer rivers made of snakes. Both arguments have their merits.

Game Instructions: This will give you two Poisonous Preparations.

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Challenge information

Narrow, 12 (50% base)

• 8 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 9 - high-risk (20%)
• 10 - high-risk (30%)
• 11 - tough (40%)
• 12 - very chancy (50%)
• 13 - chancy (60%)
• 14 - modest (70%)
• 15 - very modest (80%)
• 16 - low-risk (90%)
• 17 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of increases the base difficulty by 2 points.

Success

Under controlled conditions

The target's nightmares are anticlimactic and prosaic. […] The Knight of Nobility yawns, bored.

The dream twists. Creeping vines coil around the target's feet. […] He flails at the undergrowth, blundering through the brush, scattering leaves and snapping twigs.

[…]

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

•  You've gained 2 x Poisonous Preparation
•  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

Calculated

The target sleeps soundly tonight, dreaming of nothing more instructive than numbers and ledgers[…] tremendously dull. In Parabola the Knight of Nobility is a snow leopard[…] she flexes her claws in boredom. It seems unwise to test her patience by lingering.

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

•  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)