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From: The Heights of Chicanery

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.

Game Instructions: Trade in your Investigating... for rewards.

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)