Repair destroyed texts
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From: Liminal Studies
Hell's Law Furnaces work to destroy much of its prior literature. But there are some survivals, though much ruined.
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
Stitch and inkwork
Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of .
Lead: Liminality | Description |
---|---|
431 | Traced in violant ink, a line emerges in the scoured text. 'Once these were fiedfdoms, but what is a kingdom without a throne? Princes become flies...' |
432 | A fragment survives in a ragged piece of paper […] 'I walked from the city they called the Fourth and beheld the verdure of a forest more emerald than Paradise. The gardens of Hell, they said and they told me with what they were watered—' |
433 | A single colophon from a false copy of the Legenda Cosmogone. 'For all the saints who fell like bolts from the sky.' |
434 | A chance survival in the battered, burnt-out hollow of a library catalogue, detailing a collection long broken. 'The false-Garden in which shame was nurtured and littered with like detritus. Only partially of Hell's making.' |
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- You've gained 41 x Librarian's Progress
- You have a lead in the Liminal Studies section of the library. (Increases Lead: Liminality by 1)
- You have a lead in the Partial Historiography section of your library. (Sets Lead: Partial Historiography to 430, if below 401)
- You have a lead in the Unanticipated Ecologies section of your library. (Sets Lead: Ecology to 430, if below 401)
Failure
A good attempt
[…] inks, pigments and shimmering powders, as well as a box of violant paint. Unfortunately, though your speculative technique proves perfect in function, it lacks in form. […] the violant acts only to recover […] a collation of grocery lists.
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- Wounds is increasing… (+5 CP)