Gaze into the Neathoscope
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From: The Inorganic Sciences Wing
The centerpiece of the exhibit: A kaleidoscopic device that allows for relatively safe viewing of the Neath's unique shades of light.
Game Instructions: The effects of this are random and mostly unpleasant – particularly the irrigo. But go on, don't you want to try it?
Success
Illuminated
The light is a black darker than black, and a blue deeper than blue. Your organs squirm in their cavity, not quite feeling like themselves.
- Peligin, the colour of monsters and the deep zee. (Sets Kaleidoscopic Colour to 1)
- Monstrous Anatomy is increasing… (+1 CP, if already present, up to level 5 + )
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Alternative Success
Illuminated
Your eyes taste unfinished business and unpaid debt on the light as you gaze into the swirling shapes. […] you nearly bump into someone as you turn around – an old acquaintance, here visiting […] with a beautiful young friend who is assuredly not his spouse.
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- Violant, the colour of unwanted yet necessary connections. (Sets Kaleidoscopic Colour to 2)
- You've gained 10 x Intriguing Snippet
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Alternative Success
Illuminated
The shapes, bathed in apocyanic light, commit themselves exactly to your memory, their precise angles engraved in your mind. [...] you'll recall how exactly they resemble the pattern on the wallpaper in a parlour you stood in, long ago, on the Surface.
- Apocyan, the colour of indelible memory. (Sets Kaleidoscopic Colour to 3)
- You've gained 2 x Memory of Distant Shores
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Alternative Success
Illuminated
The spectacle of shapes and colours makes you drowsy; you feel your entire body relaxing as the light, which is not green but reminds you of jungle leaves, floods your retinas.
- Viric, the colour of shallow sleep. (Sets Kaleidoscopic Colour to 4)
- Nightmares is dropping… (-1 CP)
Alternative Success
Illuminated
The light is treacly and inviting, but too much so. If you were half as aware and twice as desperate, you might mistake it for the sun warming your face.
- Cosmogone, the colour of the Parabolan sun. (Sets Kaleidoscopic Colour to 5)
- You've gained 2 x Memory of Light
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Alternative Success
Illuminated
The eyeholes on the neathoscope await you. But the gentleman in line behind you is tutting fiercely. Have you already had a look?
- Irrigo, the colour of oblivion. (Sets Kaleidoscopic Colour to 6)
- Watchful is dropping… (-1 CP)
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Alternative Success
Illuminated
You see nothing – nothing at all – within the machine. But there's a grainy, prickly sensation; as if something is gnawing on the inside of your head.
- Gant, the colour that remains when all other colours are devoured. (Sets Kaleidoscopic Colour to 7)
- Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)