Offices of the Tracklayer's Union: Balmoral Branch

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The station has been built discreetly downhill from the castle, so as not to spoil the vista: it has a faintly apologetic air [...] The Tracklayers' office is only staffed a few hours each day, and the amenities perhaps not quite what you are used to.

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Present the union members with a good-will gift
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Slip through the mirror
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Reenter your Cabinet Noir

Intercepting Documents

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Intercept a piece of post
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Steal a curious document from the Tracklayers' Office
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    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%)

    Success

    Not a difficult theft

    Conclusion: Plans for the Neath or Plans for the Neath 2


    Failure

    Just at the wrong moment

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Developing Assets at Balmoral

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Construct a Cabinet Noir
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    Success

    A distraction from the true purpose

    • Currency3 coppersmall.png You've lost (50 × ( + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
    • Moonparliamentsmall.png You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
    • Envelopesmall.png You have built a small room off the Balmoral station where you can inspect paperwork and conceal your own activities at your leisure. (Sets Cabinet Noir to 1 - Your Cabinet is a small room off the Balmoral station where you can inspect paperwork and conceal your own activities at your leisure)

    Redirects to: Work in your Cabinet Noir

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Expand your Cabinet Noir
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    Success

    A distraction from the true purpose

    • Currency3 coppersmall.png You've lost (50 x ( + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
    • Moonparliamentsmall.png You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
    • Envelopesmall.png Your Cabinet is a room off the Balmoral station where you can both inspect and forge documents. (Sets Cabinet Noir to 2 - Your Cabinet is a room off the Balmoral station where you can both inspect and forge documents)
    • Secretsmall.png 'Disappearing...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
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Further expand your Cabinet Noir
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Further expand your Cabinet Noir
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    Success

    A distraction from the true purpose

    • Currency3 coppersmall.png You've lost (50 x ( + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
    • Moonparliamentsmall.png You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
    • Envelopesmall.png You have hollowed out a basement under Balmoral Station and extended your Cabinet Noir. Your activities are very questionable, but wholly unquestioned. (Sets Cabinet Noir to 4 - Balmoral Station is a diversion. This building really chiefly belongs to your Cabinet Noir – including an extensive set of basement offices – designed to manage your cover identities, encryption and decryption exercises, and interventions in the Great Game)
    • Masksmall.png You have exhausted the usefulness of your most recent cover identity. (Resets to 0)
    • Maskpurplesmall.png Your 'Cover Identity: Backstory' Quality has gone!
    • Envelopesmall.png Your 'Cover Identity: Credentials' Quality has gone!
    • Ridiculoushatsmall.png Your 'Cover Identity: Nuance' Quality has gone!
    • Whispered secretsmall.png Your 'Cover Identity: Witnesses' Quality has gone!
    • Envelopesmall.png You've gained 1 x Fabricator of Past Lives

    Redirects to: Work in your Cabinet Noir

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Install an enormous mirror in your Cabinet Noir
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    Success

    Not a mere looking glass

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Put up a statue in honour of the Empress' Consort
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Put up a statue in honour of the Captivating Princess
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Put up a statue in honour of your Cover Identity (which is to say, yourself)
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Tear down the Statue to (Subject)