Chart forlorn pathways
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From: Ambiguous Cartography
What history has forgotten, cartography remembers.
Challenge information
Broad, 177
- 121 - very chancy (41%)
- 151 - chancy (51%)
- 180 - modest (61%)
- 210 - very modest (71%)
- 239 - low-risk (81%)
- 269 - straightforward (91%)
- 295 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Trackless
Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of .
Lead: Cartography | Description |
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520 | You uncover the Waswood Codices, which, naturally, can only be read in a mirror. The middle volume also requires the mirror be silvered in moonlight. You are gratified to later learn that the author was boiled alive in a hot Waswood spring. |
521 | The Accounts of the Midnight Apostles. Acts VII:VII furnishes you with[…] improbable apostates who[…] shaped history, and whose dependence upon irrigo erased their contributions neatly afterwards. They can[…] be apportioned responsibility for all acts and none[…] |
522 | You include a collection of scrolls from an emissary from the Vatican to the Presbyterate, keen to make up for the embarrassing mistake of identity in the Fifth Crusade[…] Between his fond wishes for what should be, you find glimpses of what was. |
523 | You uncover […] phonograms[…] in a scrupulously neglected area of the Benthic Special Collections. Each features the supposed voice of a lily growing in the Lilymire, bearing witness to the unchanged aeons of Hell in fleshy and distressing squelches. Perfect. |
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- Shadowy is increasing…
- You've gained 32 x Librarian's Progress
- You have a lead in the Ambiguous Cartography section of the library. (Increases Lead: Cartography by 1 x)
Failure
Gone
You take walking boots, a set of ancient charts, and your own good sense. You lose all three deep in the Prickfinger Wastes, whose ancient pinnacles scorn all interpretation. Perhaps there was a war here, perhaps an empire. Go and look for them now.
- Shadowy is increasing…
- You've lost 2 x Librarian's Progress