Posit impossible conclusions
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From: Partial Historiography
Hell's hinterlands are littered with the improbable. Mind-bending consideration of all the permutations of the impossible is therefore the only possible course.
Challenge information
Narrow, 11 (50% base)
- 7 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 8 - high-risk (20%)
- 9 - high-risk (30%)
- 10 - tough (40%)
- 11 - very chancy (50%)
- 12 - chancy (60%)
- 13 - modest (70%)
- 14 - very modest (80%)
- 15 - low-risk (90%)
- 16 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Hell's own
Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of .
Lead: Historiography | Description |
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431 | Hell is not continuous. Every history of the period that has survived to reach your library is a morass of contradiction. It helps to imagine that all of them are true, sometimes simultaneously. |
432 | A monk of the Fourth City named John of Jerusalem writes: 'Heaven has touched Hell, and its caress is everywhere felt.' […] He also writes 'Hell is a mirror: if so, what does it reflect?' but you suspect the 'if' is doing rather too much work there. |
433 | There is a book written on lead upon which chilly sigils have been inscribed. Its conclusions are horrible, its insights grandiose. It posits a place in the stars where Hell is not. |
434 | Old histories speak of places prior to Balmoral and Burrow, Jericho and Ealing. What has become of them? Has Hell taken them back? |
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- You've gained 41 x Librarian's Progress
- You've gained 1 x Lead: Partial Historiography
- You have a lead in the Liminal Studies section of the library. (Sets Lead: Liminality to 430, if below 401)
- You have a lead in the Unanticipated Ecologies section of the library. (Sets Lead: Ecology to 430, if below 401)
Failure
A theory is certainly advanced
What if the hinterlands are the Parabolan Chessboard in real terms. What if the endless conflicts that scream across its wastes are the movements of unseen forces behind the glass? […] It is, perhaps, time for a lie down. Perhaps a soothing spot of tea […]
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- Nightmares is increasing… (+5 CP)