Obstacle: an Importunate Constable

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Notebook, blue hat, clomping tread that favours the right leg. The Importunate Constable is part of the crowd everywhere you go.

Game Instructions: Obstacle cards play as soon as they are drawn and may increase your menaces - unless you can remove them from your deck.

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Card drawn in

Occurs with Standard Frequency

Options:

Don't bother to shake her pursuit

•  Spoiler ID: 168047
  

   

  Success

  Gradually a portrait emerges

  •  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)
  •  You've gained 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve

  ^

Let her follow you to compromising places

•  Spoiler ID: 173320
  

   

  Success

  Known associates

  •  Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
  •  You've gained 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve

  ^

Convince her superiors that she is corrupt

•  Spoiler ID: 161262
  

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  Challenge information

  Broad, 125 || 86 - very chancy (41%) || 107 - chancy (51%) || 128 - modest (61%) || 148 - very modest (71%) || 169 - low-risk (81%) || 190 - straightforward (91%) || 209 - straightforward (100%)
  

  , Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (25 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.

  Success

  Documents in brown paper

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • You've lost 5 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
  •  You've gained 25 x Flash Lay's Progress
  • You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: an Importunate Constable

  Failure

  Take this to the station

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  Suspicion is increasing… (+4 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve

  ^

Let her know that you could destroy her

•  Spoiler ID: 161263
  

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  Challenge information

  Broad, 208.33 || 143 - very chancy (41%) || 178 - chancy (51%) || 212 - modest (61%) || 247 - very modest (71%) || 282 - low-risk (81%) || 316 - straightforward (91%) || 348 - straightforward (100%)
  

  , Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (41.66 x Venture Challenge Level). The above example is at Venture Challenge Level 5.

  Success

  Foolproof methods

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  • You've lost 8 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve
  •  You've gained 1 x A Flash Lay: Corrupt Constable
  •  You've gained 25 x Flash Lay's Progress
  • You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: an Importunate Constable

  Failure

  Unimpressed

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x A Flash Lay: Up your Sleeve

  ^