Ambition: Light Fingers! Navigating the labyrinth

ID: 14994

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You are somewhere inside the labyrinth that surrounds the Orphanage. The darkness here has peculiar properties: candles burn down to their stubs with unnatural speed. The path divides, and divides again. Which way now?

Unlocked with  37-39

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Options:

March fearlessly into the labyrinth

•  Spoiler ID: 6534
  

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  Challenge information

  Broad, 89 || 61 - very chancy (41%) || 76 - chancy (51%) || 91 - modest (61%) || 106 - very modest (71%) || 121 - low-risk (81%) || 135 - straightforward (91%) || 149 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Back, you rabble!

  Success Instructions: Raise your Ambition: Light Fingers to 40 to continue.
  

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  Ambition: Light Fingers! is increasing… (+8 CP)
  • You've lost 50 x Foxfire Candle Stub

  Failure

  The ragged figures

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • You've lost 50 x Foxfire Candle Stub
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)

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Embrace the shadows

•  Spoiler ID: 6535
  

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  Challenge information

  Broad, 96 || 66 - very chancy (41%) || 82 - chancy (51%) || 98 - modest (61%) || 114 - very modest (71%) || 130 - low-risk (81%) || 146 - straightforward (91%) || 160 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  The denizens of the labyrinth

  Success Instructions: Raise your Ambition: Light Fingers to 40 to continue
  

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  • You've lost 50 x Foxfire Candle Stub
  •  Ambition: Light Fingers! is increasing… (+8 CP)

  Failure

  The stuff of nightmares

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
  • You've lost 50 x Foxfire Candle Stub

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Choose a path at random

•  Spoiler ID: 6537
  

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  Challenge information

  A matter of luck: The odds are strongly against you here (success chance: 20-30%)

  Success

  'Have you seen the clouds?'

  Success Instructions: Raise your Ambition: Light Fingers to 40 to continue.
  

  • You've lost 50 x Foxfire Candle Stub
  •  Ambition: Light Fingers! is increasing… (+9 CP)

  Failure

  Darkness Visible

  • You've lost 50 x Foxfire Candle Stub
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)

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Leave the Orphanage's labyrinth

•  Spoiler ID: 6538
  

   

  Success

  Flowerdene has never seemed so welcoming

  • You have moved to a new area: Spite
  • An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: Light Fingers!' Quality is now 37 - Head to Spite and enter the Orphanage!

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