Play unpredictably

ID: 239466

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From: Ambition: Against the Topsy King

If you're going to put on a show, you should make it a memorable one. They can't say you were cheating if they can't understand what you did.

Unlocked with  exactly 430

Challenge information

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• 130 - very chancy (41%)
• 162 - chancy (51%)
• 194 - modest (61%)
• 225 - very modest (71%)
• 257 - low-risk (81%)
• 289 - straightforward (91%)
• 317 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Like minds

Taking your lead from Tristram, you play as though you'd staked and lost your own mind to the Manager […] Bet half your stake on a Sister's-in-the-Well? Why not? […]

Tristram matches you in madness: for a while he refuses to play any suit but hats. […]

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Renown: the Marvellous
•  The bout nears it end. (Sets Ambition: Heart's Desire! to 440 - Play your opponent in London)

Failure

Can't beat a master

It is impossible to out-Topsy Tristram Bagley. Who could have foreseen that Candle Amidst Jaguars? And when he raised and raised on what looked like a Khan's Chariot, you had no choice but to fold […] then he revealed it was only a Serpent's Remorse!? […]

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

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  The bout nears it end. (Sets Ambition: Heart's Desire! to 440 - Play your opponent in London)