The Departed

SPOILERS AHEAD! BE WARNED!

Tiny black-garbed shapes crouch beside a grave-pit. Blue flames flutter in the Neathy breeze. You've happened across a mass rat-burial in a single human-sized grave.

Card only drawn in Watchmaker's Hill

Occurs with Very Infrequent Frequency (half as common as Standard)

Options:

Watch

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  Success

  Tiny and solemn

  • Watchful is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • Nightmares is dropping… (-1 CP)
  • Melancholy is increasing… (+2 CP, up to level 10)

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Add your own dead to the pile

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  Unlocked with 1 x Rat on a String
   

  Success

  Approach with caution

  • You've lost 1 x Rat on a String
  • Sympathetic about Ratly Concerns is increasing… (+3 CP) (only if already present)
  • Nightmares is dropping… (-1 CP)
  • Persuasive is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • You've gained 1 x Sudden Insight (up to 20)
  • You've lost (half) x Troubled by Vermin
  • Melancholy is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
  • Steadfast is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
  • Heartless is dropping… (-3 CP)

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Add a few dozen dead to the pile

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  Unlocked with 48 x Rat on a String
   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Dangerous 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 lightning retreat

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  • Sympathetic about Ratly Concerns is dropping… (-1 CP)
  • You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin (only if already present)
  • You've lost 24 x Rat on a String

  Failure

  A funerary faux pas

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  • Sympathetic about Ratly Concerns is dropping… (-1 CP)
  • You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin (only if already present)
  • You've lost 24 x Rat on a String
  • Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)

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Oho! Ripe rats!

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  Challenge information

  Broad, Dangerous 40
  || 28 - very chancy (41%) || 34 - chancy (51%) || 41 - modest (61%) || 48 - very modest (71%) || 54 - low-risk (81%) || 61 - straightforward (91%) || 67 - straightforward (100%)
  

  
  

  Success

  A flea-ridden haul

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  • Sympathetic about Ratly Concerns is dropping… (-2 CP) (if already present)
  • You've gained 2 x Troubled by Vermin (if already present)
  • You've gained 50 x Rat on a String
  • Heartless is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
  • Melancholy is dropping… (-3 CP)
  • You've gained 1 x Favours: The Church (up to 7)

  Failure

  Death at the graveside

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  • Heartless is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
  • Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • Sympathetic about Ratly Concerns is dropping… (-1 CP) (if already present)
  • You've gained 1 x Troubled by Vermin (if already present)
  • You've gained 1 x Proscribed Material
  • Melancholy is dropping… (-3 CP)

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