One's public

SPOILERS AHEAD! BE WARNED!

A fractious but good natured mob is forming around your lodgings. Are they aficionados of your poetry? A horde of jilted lovers? Here to see the latest fashions? Your public awaits you.

Unlocked with Persuasive 69

Occurs with Standard Frequency

Options:

Speak for a little while and ask them to disperse

•  Spoiler 

  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Persuasive 69
  || 48 - very chancy (41%) || 59 - chancy (51%) || 71 - modest (61%) || 82 - very modest (71%) || 94 - low-risk (81%) || 105 - straightforward (91%) || 115 - straightforward (100%)
  

  
  

  Success

  Well. Hello.

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • You're opening a Bundle of Oddities… (Up to 200)

  • 
    → Linked Storylet: What's in the bundle?

  Failure

  Ungrateful lot

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

Put on a fine show for them

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  Challenge information

  Broad, Persuasive 200
  || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

  
  

  Success

  Delicious friends

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • You've gained 20 x Piece of Rostygold
  • You've gained 20 x Jade Fragment
  • You've gained 2 x Confident Smile (up to 21)
  • You've gained 20 x Primordial Shriek
  • You've gained 100 x Penny
  • You've gained 50 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879

  Failure

  Ungrateful lot

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

Recount tales of a Hallowmas gone by

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with The Unexpurgated Gazette: Hallowmas Edition of 1896
   

  Success

  Confessions, candles and transformations

  • Making Waves is increasing… (+4-7 CP) (random; range to be confirmed)
  • You've gained 1-2 x Intriguing Snippet (random; range to be confirmed)
  • You've gained 27-58 x Cryptic Clue (random; range to be confirmed)

  ^