The Much-Rumored Tower

The Much-Rumored Tower
Prerequisites :	None
Begin Date :	Anthonos Juvenalia
End Date :	Kaliri 28
Days :	3
ModTools Name :	Tower of the Cold Forge
Roll Levels :	3, 4, 6, 8-10
Automatic Benefits :	Expand Insight, Pure Luck, Tactics... Add The Sword of Kush. Inform Lightning, Time, & Acoustic.

This is an adventure to help the trapped inhabitants of a cursed tower. The adventure has several choices designed specifically to increase your chance of success at completing this adventure, and as such it lends itself well to beginners.

Stage 1: The Tower[]

1. "I have no idea."

Automatic:  -1 Confidence, inform Time (Pheme), pause Adventure

2. Intelligence / Dialectic vs 3. Use your command of Dialectic to answer the question with another question.

Success:  expand First Principles +1 SS, inform Acoustic (Pheme), inform Time (Pheme), pause at Stage 2
Failure:  expand Persuasion -1 SS, inform Time, pause Adventure

3. Charm / Playfulness vs 3. Answer its question directly and humorously.

Success:  expand Wit +1 SS, inform Acoustic (Pheme), inform Time (Pheme), pause at Stage 2
Failure:  expand Awareness -1 SS, inform Time, pause Adventure

4. Insight / Society vs 3. Define time in a groupthink manner.

Success:  expand Oratory +1, inform Acoustic (Pheme), inform Time (Pheme), pause at Stage 2
Failure:  -1 Passion SS, inform Time (Pheme), pause Adventure

Stage 2: The Challenge of the Tower[]

1. Leave now and come back when you're better prepared.

Automatic:  -1 Courage SS, expand Planning +1 SS, pause Adventure

2. What have you got to lose?

Automatic:  expand Courage +1 SS, advance to Phase 2

Phase 2: The Caged Cat[]

1. Fitness / Danger Sense vs 3. Dodge the Puma's first strike!

Success:  temporarily increase Flawless Timing +2, choose again
Failure:  -1 Vitality, decrease Flawless Timing -1

unlocks Luck option

2. Luck / Flawless Timing vs 4. Glamour the Puma to sleep!

Success:  gain and inform Sword of Kush, expand Concentration & Danger Sense +1 SS each, advance to Phase 3
Failure:  -1 Confidence SS, -1 Vitality, pause Adventure

Phase 3: Branch and Bolt[]

1. Leave now and come back when you're better prepared.

Automatic:  pause Adventure

2. Intelligence / Negation Methods v. 6. Try to protect yourself against lightning strikes.

Success:  temporarily increase Chance of Success +15%
Failure:  nothing

Note: You can only choose this before option 3
Select Another Option

3. Ambush. Strike first!

Success:  temporarily increase Chance of Success +10%, temporarily increase Tactics +2, choose again
Failure:  -2 Vitality, decrease Tactics -2

Note: I don't see the Roll information on Mod Tools
Unlocks Options 4-6

4. Finesse / Glamour vs 8. Make yourself harder to hit.

Success:   temporarily increase Chance of Success +15%, temporarily increase Tactics +3
Failure:  -1 Vitality, Chance of Success -5%, decrease Tactics -1

Select Another Option

5. Luck / Acrobatics vs 6. Position yourself for an effective attack.

Success:  temporarily increase Tactics +2
Failure:  decrease Tactics -1

Select Another Option

6. Fitness / Tactics vs 8. Get in close and revise the tree into something less... electrical.

Success: expand Danger Sense & Pure Luck & Tactics +1 SS each, inform Lightning (Pheme), advance to Phase 4
Failure:  -3 Vitality, pause Adventure

Phase 4: The Door with the Fist[]

1. Leave now and come back when you're better prepared.

Automatic:  pause Adventure

2. Luck / Competition v. 9. DUCK!

Success:  temporarily increase Incantation +4. choose again
Failure:  -2 Vitality

Unlocks Option 3

3. Finesse / Incantation v. 9. It's too fast. It's way too fast. You need mud to slow it up, or you've already lost!

Success:  expand Concentration & Courage +1 SS each, advance to Phase 5
Failure:  -2 Vitality, pause Adventure

Phase 5: The Argenblat[]

1. Charm / Intimidation vs 10. Roar. Unnerve the thing.

Success:  Chance of Success +33
Failure:  Chance of Failure +15

Select Another Option

2. Strength / Brute Strength vs 9. It's not that much bigger than you, patches of flame on its body notwithstanding. Tackle it.

Success:  expand Willpower & Wrestling +1 SS each, advance to Phase 6
Failure:  -3 Vitality, pause Adventure

3. Intelligence / Glamour Methods vs 9 - See if you can put it to sleep.

Success:  expand Glamour Spells & Confidence +1 SS each, unlock Forge of Ice Drops (I didn't get this location - perhaps it was removed?), pause at Stage 3
Failure:  -3 Vitality, pause Adventure

Stage 3: The Final Prisoner[]

Phase 1: The Final Foe[]

Planning. Like you weren't expecting the nice ghost to attack you. Disrupt him.

Automatic :  expand Insight +1, expand Awareness +1 SS

Phase 2: The Problem[]

Talk.

Automatic :  expand Patience +1 SS, Relationship with Lambert Cobo +1