Warn the urchins

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From: The Kidsman recruits

The Flit is no place for organised crime. If anything, it thrives on the opposite.

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 82

• 57 - very chancy (41%)
• 70 - chancy (51%)
• 84 - modest (61%)
• 98 - very modest (71%)
• 111 - low-risk (81%)
• 125 - straightforward (91%)
• 137 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

A well-timed warning

[…] he's mesmerising a small gang of ragamuffins. But in the nick of time their gang-mates arrive, hot on the heels of your warning. The urchins' quick work with a cudgel drives the old faker off […] And even better, he’s dropped his purse!

Player summary:
Your timely warning helped save a number of urchins from being mesmerised. You also help yourself with the villain's purse.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Shadowy is increasing…
• You've gained 1 x Favours: Urchins (up to 7)
• Nothing seems to have changed. But perhaps someday it will. (Adrift on a Sea of Misery increase)
• You're opening a Bundle of Oddities… (Up to 142)

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

Failure

Only an old beggar

The urchins laugh it off. They’ve nothing to fear from that old scoundrel. In fact, it’s an insult to think they’d be tricked so easily!

• Shadowy is increasing…
• Suspicion is increasing… (+1 CP)
• Nothing seems to have changed. But perhaps someday it will. (Adrift on a Sea of Misery increase)