Persuade the Hell-Scarred Gondolier

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From: Debating Matters of Business with the Board

He's been all the way down the line, and all the way back.

Game Instructions: He is affected by Corruption. Other branches in this story may help to bribe him.

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Challenge information

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• 69 - very chancy (41%)
• 85 - chancy (51%)
• 102 - modest (61%)
• 119 - very modest (71%)
• 135 - low-risk (81%)
• 152 - straightforward (91%)
• 167 - straightforward (100%)
  

Base difficulty is 100, increased by 20 per point of , , and , and 40 per point of and . Every level of reduces the difficulty by 40 points, and each point of decreases it by 20.

Success

He is convinced!

"Oh, very well," says the Hell-Scarred Gondolier. His tone suggests that you have not seen what he has seen, and if you had, you would not make such proposals, but that he lacks the energy or the will to contradict you.

Description summary:
The text varies with the Question before the Board. The text above is the generic result; questions with more specific results are listed below.

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Question	Success Description
160	The Gondolier votes yes – but his teeth are rattling. Is there a draft in here?
181 - 187	"Any place is like any other place […] Except for the place of marigolds, and the place of the rose, and the silent place, and the place of the judge, and the place where there is very little screaming..." He goes on like this […]
520 - 523, 525, 526, 528, 529	"Might as well this folly as any other," […] "Since you are bound to go where you should not and see what you should not and know what you should not." Then he digresses into some business about bombs that nest like insects and birth like worms […]
905, 910	"Oh, very well," says the Hell-Scarred Gondolier. "But a Church will not save you nor them."
1000 - 1020	[…] "I have been to the place where the treaty was made between the ancient Guild and the powers of the Neath. […] it is inscribed in the Tongue of Ash, whose words are never used now, except in eulogy." […] "Make the treaty," says the Gondolier.
1100, 1110	"Why not," the Hell-Scarred Gondolier says after a moment's pause. "Death comes for us all in the end. Why should dreams be spared?"

Board Member	Second paragraph of Success Description
The Drummer	You become conscious of a deep, slow pounding, transmitted through the floor. The Hell-Scarred Gondolier feels it too. He catches your eye and smiles without joy.

• Persuasive is increasing…
• You've lost 1 x Uncommitted Board Members
•  The Hell-Scarred Gondolier has agreed to vote on your side. (Sets The Hell-Scarred Gondolier's Vote to 1 - The Hell-Scarred Gondolier is voting on your side)

Redirects to: Debating Matters of Business with the Board

Failure

Unconvinced

"I wouldn't do that," […]

And then he tells an anecdote from the hagiography of Saint Trezigor […] you can feel your hair whitening and your teeth lengthening and your toenails growing […]

All this takes no more than seventy seconds by the wall clock. […]

Description summary:
The text varies with the Question before the Board. The text above is the generic result; questions with more specific results are listed below.

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

Question	Failure Description
100, 105, 115 - 150	[…] he whispers […] about the stain left by a crushed marigold when it is ground into cloth, and the frostbite that comes of trying to stretch out one's hand to the Adulterine Castle. […] the threat hovers implacably over the boardroom […]
160	"I think not," […] […] he's concerned about running into stones that aren't there or a castle that doesn't exist. Something about goats and the games they don't play. This non-existent threat nevertheless puts a halt to the Board's discussion.
520 - 522, 525, 526, 528, 529, 700 - 720, 800, 850	"I wouldn't do that," […] And then he tells a story about the severed head of a general that, even after his capture and imprisonment and execution, could not stop boasting of its victory in war. He does not say how this story applies […]
905, 910	The Hell-Scarred Gondolier sighs despondently. "There's no point. A Church will not save you nor them, in the end."
1000 - 1020	The Hell-Scarred Gondolier puts his head in his hands and will not speak, except in short bursts: something about the ally of Hell's Monarchy, and something about tumult and the earth folding itself up like a sheet of paper.
1100, 1110	The Hell-Scarred Gondolier weeps as he turns his thoughts to Parabola. "They showed me its treacheries," he whispers. His tears turn to violets upon the table, withering as they fall.

Board Member	Second paragraph of Failure Description
His Amused Lordship	"Fascinating," remarks His Amused Lordship. He makes a note to himself and puts it in the pocket of his waistcoat.

• Persuasive is increasing…

Redirects to: Debating Matters of Business with the Board