Make of your body the city itself

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From: Reach out to the mind of the Creditor


How can you possibly hope to commune with the Creditor when you insist on the limitations of your current self. Gaze into the abyss. Then, gaze back.

Locked with  2,  8


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

The city and the self

It is a sublimation that requires an exercise of complete control.[…] As you lose consciousness, you begin to wake.

The city is a body in itself, bounded by river and rail. Its head is at the temple, […]

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Failure

Expanding the self

[…] the city itself. It has limbs, capillaries, veins, vessels and variegations[…] heartbeats, […] organs: commerce, politics[…] you then map such a body onto your own[…] until some fool pulls down a building in the main square […] convince yourself that you are not[…] dying.

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