Arrange an escape

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From: Take your Old Bone Skeleton Key for a spin

A reliable ally is due to be transported across the zee by the Special Constables. You have a plan to free them. If it works, it will make you the toast of the underworld.

Game Instructions: Spend all your Favours: Criminals to gain Renown.

Unlocked with 7 x Favours: Criminals, Renown: Criminals 15, Shadowy (Renown x 6), 100 x Stolen Correspondence, 50 x Bundle of Ragged Clothing, 500 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879, 5 x Pair of Leg Irons

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 162

• 111 - very chancy (41%)
• 138 - chancy (51%)
• 165 - modest (61%)
• 192 - very modest (71%)
• 219 - low-risk (81%)
• 246 - straightforward (91%)
• 270 - straightforward (100%)
  

Shadowy, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of 6 for every Renown level. The above example is at Renown level 27.

Success

The makings of a celebrated story

A dozen crates […] contain wine, shackles, prisoner-wear, and - carefully concealed - yourself and a trio of your most trusted accomplices.

[…] you forge below and free every prisoner on the ship. Stealing a lifeboat, you row back to the docks […]

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
• Steadfast is increasing… (+5 CP, up to level 15)
• Heartless is dropping… (-5 CP)
• Your 'Favours: Criminals' Quality has gone!
• You've lost 50 x Bundle of Ragged Clothing
• You've lost 100 x Stolen Correspondence
• You've lost 500 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879
• You've lost 5 x Pair of Leg Irons
• Renown: Criminals is increasing… (+28 CP)

Failure

How could they have known?

You were in the midst of preparations when you heard the lookout[…] Against the window, there loomed the unmistakeable silhouette of a Special Constable. […] everybody bolts. You take what you can, but even so it's set the escape back considerably.

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
• Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)
• You've lost 50 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879
• You've lost 20 x Stolen Correspondence
• You've lost 25 x Bundle of Ragged Clothing