What new madness is this?

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From: The Listing Tower: a Half-Abandoned Mansion

Traps, within reason, are allowed in the game of Knife-and-Candle. Incendiaries inside large buildings are frowned on, however. The Committee asks you to deal with the situation.

Unlocked with 1 x Moon League Token, 1 x Sharp Iron Key, An Umpire of the Game of Knife-and-Candle 1

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 202

• 139 - very chancy (41%)
• 172 - chancy (51%)
• 206 - modest (61%)
• 240 - very modest (71%)
• 273 - low-risk (81%)
• 307 - straightforward (91%)
• 337 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

A stern word

The player causing the incendiary difficulties is a postgraduate student at the Department of Infernal Rarefactions. […]

She agrees not to set any more fire-traps indoors and the Committee sends you a package of candles in reward. […]

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• Dangerous is increasing…
• You've gained 2 x Mourning Candle

Failure

And then the sideboard exploded

[…]

You confront her in a half-subsided parlour and are about to commence your finest speech on fair play when there is a click from your feet. The rotting sideboard next to you explodes. When you wake, the student is long gone.

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• Dangerous is increasing…
• Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)