Clarify failure for me

[Stormtower]

My reading: Sloan fails to repair the windows and (twist) the window frames are now completely ruined by her efforts, so Honeywind's baker is even worse off than before.

That doesn't sound like a twist. That sounds like a failed roll.

The other reading: Sloan does eventually repair the windows, but (twist) something about the process

... costs something to Sloan.

It doesn't have to be a twist. You can apply a condition: "Sloan eventually repairs it, but he gets really tired." ... or if the roll is really bad ... "... but he gets really tired AND angry because othermice were laughing at his clumsy repair job"

if you want a twist, it would have to go something like this:

"As Sloan is finishing up repairing the windows, Buster comes up and starts arguing about how the job should have been done." This sets up either a persuasion check or conflict as a twist. If Sloan wins the debate, then the mice are convinced that whatever "defect" was pointed out is really a wonderful work of artistic craftsmanship.

[luke]

RAFE,
I asked Tower to let me handle this and now I'm asking you. I'm trying to have a conversation with Buzz.

-L

[wanderer]

Am I wrong?

I don't think so. I don't have my book in front of me, but I believe the only things that can keep the mice from succeeding are losing at a conflict or having unfinished business at the end of the Players' Turn.