Privately put a question to the Solicitor-Baroness

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From: Seed a City of your Own Flesh, A City Grown from Cornelius, or A City Belonging to the Manager of the Royal Beth


Would the Creditor accept a substitution?


Challenge information

Narrow, 2 (50% base)

  • 0 - high-risk (30%)
  • 1 - tough (40%)
  • 2 - very chancy (50%)
  • 3 - chancy (60%)
  • 4 - modest (70%)
  • 5 - very modest (80%)
  • 6 - low-risk (90%)
  • 7 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Precise terms

"As a lawyer, I can say that such an exchange does not violate the written terms on which the Shard was given to you," […]

You hear also what she does not say. […] She does not say that no harm will be done. She does not say that no punishment will come.

Description summary:
There are additional two paragraphs preceding the text if you're about to turn the Manager or Cornelius into a city.

Source StoryletFirst two paragraphs of description
A City Grown from Cornelius[…] "His soul is gone," […] "Perhaps the Creditor won't mind that. He's certainly shown the gift of plurality."
Cornelius is […] trying to speak to Furnace. But she still supposes that she is about to go under the knife, and she answers him curtly […]
A City Belonging to the Manager of the Royal BethThe Solicitor-Baroness' gaze shifts to the Manager. "No one could say that the substitute was of less value than the original," she says […] "He and the Creditor are even acquainted, from the old days."
Then she turns her gaze back to you.

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Failure

Precise terms

"As a lawyer, I can say that such an exchange does not violate the written terms on which the Shard was given to you," the Solicitor-Baroness says. "It is Hell's own way of fulfilling a contract."

Description summary:
The same two paragraphs as above appear here as well if applicable.

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