Cultivate a bibliography of the liminal
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From: Liminal Studies
What is the study of the forbidden if not that which dances on the margin between that which is permitted, and that which is not?
Challenge information
Narrow, 10 (50% base)
- 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 7 - high-risk (20%)
- 8 - high-risk (30%)
- 9 - tough (40%)
- 10 - very chancy (50%)
- 11 - chancy (60%)
- 12 - modest (70%)
- 13 - very modest (80%)
- 14 - low-risk (90%)
- 15 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Dreamless depths
Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of .
Lead: Liminality | Description |
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502 | You spend many happy hours surveying your library, gathering your materials and selecting the exact tomes for the task. A further afternoon is spent chasing footnotes for even more promising texts. Eventually, you recall what you came here to find. |
503 | You bedevil yourself with Khaganian, Latin and hieroglyphics. From these Sisyphean labours, you identify areas of fruitful inquiry – the […] years of the latter Fourth City, the correspondences with old Hell, and of course, the Captivity in the Second. |
504 | You stockpile […] tomes pilfered from the Grand Sanatorium and its predecessors in prior cities – the whispers of the Far Shore, rarely consulted, less studied. But who knows more of life's strange byways than those who […] walked its courses to their end? |
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- You've gained 35 x Librarian's Progress
- You have a lead in the Liminal Studies section of the library. (Increases Lead: Liminality by 1)
- You have a lead in the Partial Historiography section of the library. (Sets Lead: Partial Historiography to 501, if below 501)
Failure
Misjudged
You comb the shelves[…]: Secondary Monographs of the Justly Obscure, Gradan's Compendium of Encyclopaedias Obsolete On Publication, the Legenda Stannum. […] only on some careful self-reflection […] you realise these works are entirely and irredeemably merde.
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