Work long into the night forging a compromise solution

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From: The Acacia and the Butterfly

Both sides will consider a compromise a failure, but there’s more room for the person in the middle to profit...

Game Instructions: Considerable loss of both Connected: The Widow and Favours: The Docks

Challenge information

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• 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

An end to hostilities

The talks are held on the Butterfly, a junk permitted […] at the Acacia dock […]. Negotiations are tense. […] Seeing the only alternative to be more unprofitable war, both sides agree to a deal neither is pleased with.[…] You […] pocket […] bribes from both sides.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Persuasive is increasing…
• Connected: The Widow is dropping… (-100 CP)
•  You've gained 250 x Jade Fragment
•  Subtle is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5)
•  Someone Is Coming is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Strong-Backed Labour
• You've lost 1 x Favours: The Docks
• You're opening a Bundle of Oddities… (Up to 60)

• 
  → Linked Storylet: What's in the bundle?

Failure

Not quite as planned

[…] As the night wears on an insult causes one side to draw blades. The other reciprocates. You leap between them to keep the violence from escalating and find yourself suffering a moderate-to-serious case of being stabbed. […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Subtle is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5)
• You've lost 3 x Favours: The Docks
• Connected: The Widow is dropping… (-5 CP)