Take the Embalmer's Mark
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From: Take stock of your accomplices
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For the seasoned player of the game, Mr Hearts offers an added challenge: to both poison and preserve the target at once.
Game Instructions: This will make your run substantially more difficult – checks will be harder and checkless branches less effective. In exchange, a trophy gained while you have the Embalmer's Mark will gain you an additional distinction.
Success
Ideal experimental subjects
The processes that occur after death muddy the methods of scoring. […] The umpire explains […] "What Mr Hearts […] wants," […] "is to study the moment itself." The knife-edge of alive and dead, after the spark has fled but before any grave-processes sully the body. […]
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- You have accepted the Embalmer's Mark. (Sets The Embalmer's Mark to 1)