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  • Try to discover his reasons
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  • From: [[]] This man is a veteran of sixty years of palace intrigue. Are you sure you want to risk prying into his business? [Find the rest of the story at ]
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Success title
  • A snake's nest of secrets
Failure title
  • Sinister conclusions
Game Instructions
  • You can obtain an Uncovered Identity by using other Rumours items in your inventory.
BroadDiff
  • 130
Failure description
  • [...]your agent is found naked, clutching the side of a steeple[...]The cat you bribe to search his quarters suddenly takes a post on a tramp-steamer[...]Four Special Constables invade your salon and ask impertinent questions[...]You get the message.
From Card/Storylet title
  • A weighty decision
Unlocked with
  • 3
Success description
  • You sniff out rumours[...]He has taken a few discreet coach trips to the University[...]He attends meetings on the palace roof[...]No-one else ascends the stairs. [...]a tattoo from Clathermont's, identified only as 'C. special, 1: faith kpt, aeons.'
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Failure summary
  • Well, you do find out that he's on good terms with the Empress! Other than that it all turns out fairly abominably.
Description
  • This man is a veteran of sixty years of palace intrigue. Are you sure you want to risk prying into his business?
Success summary
  • A tangle of frustratingly obscure clues. You're able to rule out revenge against the Empress, and Great Game machinations, as possible motivations. Whoever he meets on the palace roof doesn't take the stairs to get up there, if indeed they ever leave the roof at all. And whatever the devil his tattoo means, he received it a long, long time ago.
abstract
  • From: [[]] This man is a veteran of sixty years of palace intrigue. Are you sure you want to risk prying into his business? [Find the rest of the story at ]