Miss: You spoil a tray and have to clean up.

⚁⚂ - 1 = 4.

On a miss, choose one:

• You weasel out of it or miss the opportunity. Cross off the GOAL. Roll to GET OUT OF TROUBLE.
• You pass it along to someone else. Cross off the GOAL. Expend a FAVOR or owe your helper a favor (a new GOAL).
• You can't quite get it accomplished. Keep the GOAL. If this is an assigned task or a FAVOR owed to someone, roll to ENCOUNTER them at -1.

Golondrina finishes preparing a tray of doses, covers them up and puts them aside. The tall redhead starting in House Leontes looks over at you. You notice her shifting a little uneasily from foot to foot.

"Oh, don't worry, Lolo," you say, "I have the last tray in hand. Go along and wee before you wet yourself."

There's a quick flush of pink in her cheeks before she turns to go. But she pauses and looks back over her shoulder.

"Do you think Fay will be awake soon?" she asks.

"Miss Wormwood says very soon," you say.

You smile after she turns away, then return to preparation of the final tray of doses. Your shoulders and hands ache a bit from the long hours of helping with Miss Wormwood's task of preparing preventative doses versus magical contagions. There's a little tingle on your buttock, right where Miss Wormwood inoculated you by having one of the snakes upon her head anoint its fangs with the medicine and then bite you. Of course, even more so, Miss Wormwood's love bites throb even more, at earlobe, neck, base of spine, and upon your inner thighs. Your mind wanders for a moment and you manage to catch your apron upon the tray of doses, spilling most of them upon the floor and shattering the vials.

Roll +CUNNING at -1 (+1) (+2 Cunning, -1 penalty) to ENCOUNTER Miss Wormwood.

⚀⚂ + 1 = 5.

On a MISS, you can't find them or they refuse to help.

Miss Wormwood looks in. The green-scaled snakes she has in place of hair stiffen and echo her disapproving look. "Now I recall why I gave your position to that Beavertail creature last year," she says. "You know what to do, Morgan."

You sigh, then talk yourself through the intricate procedure Miss Wormwood requires for spilled medicines. Banish, cleanse, banish again, cleanse, invoke purity...

And there's still one tray to repeat. Well, again, then. You hope Fay is doing better. She was always more deft with magical laboratory work, but Miss Wormwood dislikes her for some reason. Miss Wormwood literally didn't like Fay's taste, when she bit her for inoculations, but there must be something else.

You arrange a clean tray and a set of empty dose vials and start again.