Venture: Uncover hidden tattoos

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Venture: uncover hidden tattoos Actions for the Venture: uncover hidden tattoos Venture are all found in Veilgarden. You will need to raise your Fascinating… quality to advance this Venture. New options appear when your Fascinating… quality reaches 5. Once this Venture is available, you can complete it multiple times.

Levels of this Venture are not currently named.

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Venture: uncover hidden tattoos

You've heard that a Tattooed Courier is carrying secrets of especial value. If you can only arrange to see those coded tattoos…

[You'll need to build up a Fascinating… quality to at least 5 to complete this. ]
Unlocks: Persuasive 36 (No longer available at Persuasive 47)

This will require creative thinking.

She is famously faithful to her paramour. Seduction is probably out of the question. But there may be another way…

Reward spoiler

You've set up your lodgings as a studio.

The Tattooed Courier is known for three things: her savage intelligence, her beauty and her exceptional vanity. If you can persuade her to model for you -

You've begun a new venture! Venture: Uncover hidden tattoos
Fascinating… shows your progress in the venture.

Venture: uncover hidden tattoos

If you win the Tattooed Courier's confidence, perhaps you can persuade her to be sketched in a state of nature. It won't be easy.

[You'll need to build up a Fascinating… quality to at least 5 to complete this. ]
Unlocks: Venture: Uncover hidden tattoos 1

A straightforward approach… Idle chats in the Singing Mandrake

Surely your charm will win out in the end!
(Persuasive challenge; modest at 40, straightforward at 45)

Reward spoiler

You've won a smile.

A faintly tolerant smile, you suspect. But a smile. You're coming across as more 'harmless' than anything, but that is rather your intention.

Persuasive increase
Fascinating… increase

Failure spoiler

You've provoked a frown

You said something to arouse her suspicion! Change the subject, quickly.

Persuasive increase

This might be faster… Sketch her on napkins

If you can make it a sufficiently flattering likeness-
(Persuasive challenge; modest at 43)

Reward spoiler

That's really rather good

Her eyes widen perceptibly when you show her the result of your efforts.

Persuasive increase
Fascinating… increase

Failure spoiler

That's better off destroyed

Your sketch looks - well, human. It looks human. Perhaps we'll stick with 'human'.

Persuasive increase

Venture: uncover hidden tattoos: the resolution!

You've persuaded the Tattooed Courier back to your makeshift studio.
[Unlocked with: Venture: Uncover hidden tattoos 1]
[Unlocked with: Fascinating… 5]

Make the case for adventure in the name of Art.

Her beauty cannot be permitted to perish with the passage of time! Your work will serve as an eternal record! Tasteful, decorous nudity is quite the rage! And so forth.

_ challenge; modest at 5, straightforward at 8

Success spoiler

You've won qualified consent….she will allow herself to be drawn, but she'll keep the sketch.

You expected no less…which is why you have a second sheet of paper ready at hand. You'll have to work fast, but she can't see what you're doing from over there where she reclines magnificently in the moonish light -

It's done. And rather fine work, if you say so yourself. You slide the second sheet safely out of view as she rises to see the finished piece. You earn yourself a pat on the cheek, and then your sketch is gone: but you'll be able to sell the second sketch for quite a sum. With some effort, you resist the temptation to sign it.

Persuasive increase
Gain: 7 x Appalling Secret
You've lost a Quality! Fascinating… although it doesn't say so
You've lost a Quality! Venture: Uncover hidden tattoos although it doesn't say so
An Occurrence! Your Possessing Knowledge of a Singular Tattoo Quality is now 1- Awaiting a message: someone will contact you soon!
Something else will happen soon… don't worry. All shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

Failure spoiler (unknown)

Perhaps a more traditional approach is called for after all.

She's taken a liking to you, you think. And famous fidelity or not, she does look quite ravishing there in the moonish light. [Warning: failing here may mean you have to start over!]

_ challenge; modest at 8, straightforward at 12

Success spoiler

Your advances are met with surprising enthusiasm!

A delightful few hours ensue, followed by some fascinating pillow talk. Afterwards, as she sleeps, you sketch her coded tattoos, working with speed and in absolute silence.

Persuasive increase
Gain: 72 x Whispered Secret
Gain: 7 x Appalling Secret
'Fascinating…' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
Your 'Venture: Uncover hidden tattoos' Quality has gone!
…A Singular Tattoo:

Failure spoiler (unknown)

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