Eavesdropping

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From: Unfinished Business in Spite

Spite is a good place to hide yourself. What business is being discussed behind market stalls and under the Flit-ropes?

Game Instructions: Success will get you Cryptic Clues.

Unlocked with A Person of Some Importance 1

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 100

• 69 - very chancy (41%)
• 85 - chancy (51%)
• 102 - modest (61%)
• 119 - very modest (71%)
• 135 - low-risk (81%)
• 152 - straightforward (91%)
• 167 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

A new sort of secret

The crowd that hides the whisperers […] Once it was all about the Great Game and who was stealing […] every secret these days is a new illusion for Mahogany Hall […] the Correspondence […] number of soulless in London. These are complex times.

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

• Shadowy is increasing…
• You've gained 1-120 x Cryptic Clue

Failure

'Bit of a villain, if you ask me...'

You listen to two Constables enjoying a surreptitious smoke in a long-abandoned rookery. The conversation turns to you. They're after you! Best be out of this manor for a while.

• Shadowy is increasing…
• Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)