Study the Portrait of the Tentacled Entrepreneur 2

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From: The Yellow Salon


It has a distinctly Bazaarine style.

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Challenge information

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  • 205 - very chancy (41%)
  • 255 - chancy (51%)
  • 305 - modest (61%)
  • 355 - very modest (71%)
  • 405 - low-risk (81%)
  • 455 - straightforward (91%)
  • 500 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of reduces the base difficulty by 3 points.

Success

A recognisable style on an unfamiliar face

Portraits like this are common in places of wealth […]

[…] No human supporters surround him. He sits alone in a narrow spot of light, expensively garbed, his tentacles arranged like the beard of a pater familias. To be seen in this way is his achievement.

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Failure

A recognisable style on an unfamiliar face

The portrait painter evidently thought the Tentacled Entrepreneur was smiling.[...]How would one translate this? Perhaps 'the pain of looking back at someone who believes that they are being kind to you, when there would be no purpose in correcting them'?