A burden

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From: Ambition: Light Fingers! - Taking Care of Clarabelle

Whatever happened to the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer and Poor Edward will have to wait. Clarabelle's belly is big enough that […] giving birth would kill her. You need to find […] help. […] you need someone who can care for her while you're looking.

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Unlocked with Ambition: Light Fingers! 48-49

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 127

• 87 - very chancy (41%)
• 108 - chancy (51%)
• 130 - modest (61%)
• 151 - very modest (71%)
• 172 - low-risk (81%)
• 193 - straightforward (91%)
• 212 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Taking care

Clarabelle […] forget her greatest desire - her synthetic love for the Orphanage. […] 'Well that don't look human. Best be off to Dr. Vaughan. She's at the University.'

[…] You sometimes see rippling movements under the skin of her belly.[…]

Player summary:
Clarabelle sleeps and the Lethean tea makes her forget. You wonder what her old self was like. The last nurse you find points you to the university.

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• Persuasive is increasing…
• An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: Light Fingers!' Quality is now 50!

With Ambition: Light Fingers! 49:

• An occurrence! Your 'Remembering the Orphanage' Quality is now 1 - Haunted by Flames!

With Ambition: Light Fingers! 48:

• An occurrence! Your 'Remembering the Orphanage' Quality is now 2 - Haunted by the Mob's Howls!

Failure

All alone

Hephaesta is nowhere to be found. A trickle of nurses, midwives and physicians comes your door, and leaves again in short order, panicked. You grow heartily tired of the word 'unnatural'. Will nobody help this poor woman?

• Persuasive is increasing…
• Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)