Run your target down in the street – carefully
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From: Two of Ribs: Pursuit
The Knight of Ribs has fitted the wheels of the phaeton with scythed blades, 'just like Mithridates used to do it'. The cutting edges are coated with vicious poison.
Game Instructions: This will give you some progress.
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%)
Each point of increases the base difficulty by 30 points.
Success
Close call
[...] her horses[...] fly like lightning at a flick of the reins. The [...] blades blur into a tornado [...]
You are lucky that the target survives the blades and blood loss. "[...]death by any means other than poison is grounds for disqualification." An umpire has appeared[...]- Dangerous is increasing…
- Poisoner's Progress is increasing… (+(7 + 1 with - Tolerance) CP, minimum 1)
- You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
- Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on ) What does this mean?
- Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on ) What does this mean?
- You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)
Failure
Collateral
It is often difficult, when at the reins of vehicle, to remember the presence of such trifling […] things as pedestrians, and foot traffic. […] They will all survive ("Probably, anyway," says the Knight), but you have not won any favours with the umpires.
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- Dangerous is increasing…
- You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Exploits
- Elusiveness of your Target is increasing… (+3 CP) (applied with probability based on ) What does this mean?
- Poison Tolerance of Your Target is increasing… (+2 CP) (applied with probability based on ) What does this mean?
- Hearts' Game: Counterplay is increasing… (+0-1 CP)
- You've gained 1 x Hearts' Game: Turns this Round (hidden)
Categories:
- Pages Without Guide Restrictions
- Poisonous Preparation
- Dangerous Challenge
- The Embalmer's Mark
- The Embalmer's Mark Formula Uses
- Actions
- Poisoner's Progress Gain
- Ace of Knights
- Ace of Knights Formula Uses
- Poison Tolerance of Your Target
- Poison Tolerance of Your Target Formula Uses
- Hearts' Game: Exploits Gain
- Elusiveness of your Target Gain
- Poison Tolerance of Your Target Gain
- Hearts' Game: Turns this Round Gain
- Hearts' Game: Counterplay Gain