Locate a spot to dig around the hill

ID: 249935

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From: Amongst the Standing Stones

If you know how to read the landscape, you might find something precious.

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Challenge information

Broad, 150

• 103 - very chancy (41%)
• 128 - chancy (51%)
• 153 - modest (61%)
• 178 - very modest (71%)
• 203 - low-risk (81%)
• 228 - straightforward (91%)
• 250 - straightforward (100%)
  

Difficulty is 50 × . Difficulty shown is for 3.

Success

Under the stones

With a jolt, you snap to your senses. You must have been daydreaming – out here in the cold, surrounded by these standing stones, and surrounded by bones you've unearthed from the ground. For a moment, you almost mistake them for your bones […]

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• Watchful is increasing…
• You've lost 2 x Frigid Intuition
•  You've gained 1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
•  You've gained 196-205 x Bone Fragments

Rare Success

Deeper under the stones

If you were to ask different monster-hunters […] to identify this skull, they would each guess that it came from a different beast.[…]

All these guesses would be wrong.

For cataloguing purposes, you'd better simply call it a 'Horned Skull'.

Description summary:
Monster-hunters, zoologists, Mr. Inch and the Department of Menace Eradication would all disagree on the origin of this skull. You classify it as a "Horned Skull" and move on with your life.

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• Watchful is increasing…
• You've lost 2 x Frigid Intuition
•  You've gained 1 x Horned Skull

Failure

Under the stones

Frost emanates from the stones. It spreads its frozen fingers in networks that branch and reunite and crystallise […] Your bones stiffen as you dig. Take what you will. […] shards sharper than glass, brighter than knives. More ice will always encroach.

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• Watchful is increasing…
• You've lost 2 x Frigid Intuition
•  You've gained 6 x Crystallised Curio

Rare Failure

Deeper under the stones

Frost emanates […] in networks that branch and reunite and crystallise over the hill, under the hill, down the hill and through the wastes. […] Break it from the land: shards sharper than glass, brighter than knives. More ice will always encroach.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Watchful is increasing…
• You've lost 2 x Frigid Intuition
•  You've gained 9 x Crystallised Curio