Scapegoats and alibis
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From: Preparing for a Big Score
Action Cost: 3
Indisputable excuses and convenient idiots are essential to the modern criminal. Arrange your alibis in advance.
Challenge information
Broad, 80
- 55 - very chancy (41%)
- 68 - chancy (51%)
- 82 - modest (61%)
- 95 - very modest (71%)
- 108 - low-risk (81%)
- 122 - straightforward (91%)
- 134 - straightforward (100%)
Success
"I wasn't even there..."
"I have no idea what you're talking about. Here is a list of twenty people who will swear I was at choir practice. And in any case it was him over there, in the hat."
- Shadowy is increasing…
- Casing... is increasing… (+9 CP)
- Shadowy is increasing… (+2 CP, up to level 200 + )
Failure
Damnable dupe!
Using scapegoats does have its risks. They sometimes go to the authorities before you are ready. Someone seems to have been talking out of school.