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?

Unlocked with  501-503

Locked with  200


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: LiminalityDescription
502You 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.
503You 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.
504You 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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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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