Manufacture Searing Enigmas
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From: The Other Thing in the Other Chapel
One part printing-press, one part steam-hammer, one part cataclysm engine […"]Strike sparks, smash one thing, find another. Small truths are much more valuable than big truths, you know."
"The books go in this end," she adds helpfully.
Game Instructions: Feeding the Turbine is an expensive but semi-reliable means of manufacturing Searing Enigmas. A higher Watchful gives a better result.
Challenge information
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- 137 - very chancy (41%)
- 170 - chancy (51%)
- 204 - modest (61%)
- 237 - very modest (71%)
- 270 - low-risk (81%)
- 304 - straightforward (91%)
- 334 - straightforward (100%)
Success
Showers of semantic sparks
"We're shredding Knowledge," […] "to produce Enigmas! You see […]
Are you telling me we've added value to this material by obfuscating it? Is that... ethical? "[…]None of my business. Moral Philosophy is two buildings down[…]"Description summary:
Academia at its finest: garbling clear truth so that you can intentionally increase its value!
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Watchful is increasing…
- Connected: Benthic is dropping… (-20 CP)
- You've lost 25 x Uncanny Incunabulum
- You've gained 1 to (1+/50) x Searing Enigma (rounded)
Rare Success
Showers of semantic sparks
[…] She picks clinkers of congealing mystery from the machine's steaming maw. "And so! And - excuse me?"
Half-sealed in a clinker lies a pair of many-angled dice […] The Professor narrows her eyes. "Has someone been attempting sabotage?"[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Watchful is increasing…
- Connected: Benthic is dropping… (-20 CP)
- You've lost 25 x Uncanny Incunabulum
- You've gained 1 x Devilbone Die
- You've gained 1 to (1+/50) x Searing Enigma (rounded)
Failure
A roar like a furnace loaded with lions
Description summary:
Today, this machine showed sub-optimal performance.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Connected: Benthic is dropping… (-20 CP)
- You've lost 25 x Uncanny Incunabulum
- You've gained 1 x Searing Enigma