Practice your little speech beforehand
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From: Making Your Name: Getting to the Ball
Even the most silver of tongues could use a polish from time to time.
Game Instructions: This will gain you some Confident Smiles, which may be helpful here.
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Practiced, polished, perfect
A few hours in front of a mirror can work wonders. After all, what you say is much less important than how you say it.
Success Instructions: Confident Smiles offer you Second Chances on Persuasive checks. You can use Second Chances to retry a failed check – but you must choose to spend them before attempting it. If you fail, you get another shot. You lose the Second Chance either way.
Second Chances are particularly useful for branches that you can only attempt once, or where failure would set you back to some degree. You may find these useful for securing an invitation to the ball.
You can also spend Second Chances in Your Social Engagements to improve your skills.
An occurrence! Your 'Tutorial: Claimed Confident Smiles' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
You've gained 3 x Confident Smile
