A direct approach 3

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From: More than just messages

Spycraft costs money. Substantial amounts are left around the Flit. Payment, bribes, hush money, slush money. It's all the same once you've stolen it.

Unlocked with Investigating... 5

Challenge information

Narrow, Investigating... 4

• 5 - modest (70%)
  
• 6 - very modest (80%)
  
• 7 - low-risk (90%)
  
• 8 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

The cost of doing business

The intriguing sack that you've spent all day following around contains a considerable amount of rostygold and a hand, severed halfway up the forearm.

• 'Investigating...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
• You've gained 540 x Piece of Rostygold

Rare Success

A peculiar miscellany

The intriguing sack that you've spent all day following around contains an enormous quantity of foxfire candlewax, a little gypsum head, an indolent lizard and what appears to be a little glass box of skin.

• You've gained 540 x Foxfire Candle Stub
• You've gained 10 x Relic of the Second City
• You've gained 1 x Reprehensible Lizard
• 'Investigating...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?

Failure

The bulging sack

The intriguing sack that you've spent all day following around contains nothing more exciting than coal. Was that a sarcastic message? Or is it just the cold up here? Either way, this isn't getting you rich.

• Investigating... is dropping… (-5 CP)