Persuade the fellow

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From: City Vices: a Plea from an Old Friend

Violence doesn't solve anything. Especially if one has just had a manicure.

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 20

• 14 - very chancy (41%)
• 17 - chancy (51%)
• 21 - modest (61%)
• 24 - very modest (71%)
• 27 - low-risk (81%)
• 31 - straightforward (91%)
• 34 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

A tongue of smoothest silver

You catalogue your former paramour's faults: her deviousness, her deplorable weakness for pastries[…]. By the time you have finished, you wonder what you saw in her yourself. Her suitor[…] is not seen again. Alas, […]she doesn't seem very pleased[…].

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• Persuasive is increasing…
• Subtle is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5)
• Someone is Coming is increasing… (+1 CP)

Failure

Love is blind

You catalogue your former paramour's faults[…]. To your dismay, her suitor interrupts […] to agree enthusiastically. 'I know!' he says. 'Isn't it adorable!' Your mission is not a success. Nor does your former paramour seem best pleased […].

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• Persuasive is increasing…
• Subtle is increasing… (+1? CP, up to level 5)