The Wit and the Physician

SPOILERS AHEAD! BE WARNED!

You bump into the Barbed Wit at a literary salon. A Saturnine Physician is speaking to her. "But of course, these unnatural urges - the wish to have the vote and to enter education - this affliction is caused by vapours arising from the womb." […]

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Unlocked with Seen with a Barbed Wit exactly 3, Fascinating... 10

Storylet appears in The Empress' Court

Options:

Throw the villain out of the window

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  Success

  Crash!

  • You have moved to a new area: Disgraced exile in the Tomb-Colonies
  • Scandal is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • Seen with a Barbed Wit has increased to 4!
  • 'Fascinating...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
  • You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
  • Forceful is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)

  ^

Join in with the Barbed Wit against him

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  Success

  He's running!

  • 'Fascinating...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
  • Seen with a Barbed Wit has increased to 4!

  ^

Nod and smile along.

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  Success

  And then she was gone

  • Seen with a Barbed Wit has dropped to 2!

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