Restore a palimpsest from the Library at Jericho

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ID: 255675

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From: The Business of a Correspondent

Half the sigils have been scraped from its pages, but your client is certain it used to contain poetry.

Unlocked with  40-60,

Challenge information

Property "Against" (as page type) with input value "" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category: Challenge|0180]]<ul><li>Empty strings are not accepted.</li> <!--br--><li>Property "Against" (as page type) with input value "" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.</li></ul>Broad, 180

• 123 - very chancy (41%)
• 153 - chancy (51%)
• 183 - modest (61%)
• 213 - very modest (71%)
• 244 - low-risk (81%)
• 273 - straightforward (91%)
• 300 - straightforward (100%)
  

Property "Against" (as page type) with input value "" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category: Challenge]]Narrow, 4 (50% base)

• 0 - almost impossible (10%)
• 1 - high-risk (20%)
• 2 - high-risk (30%)
• 3 - tough (40%)
• 4 - very chancy (50%)
• 5 - chancy (60%)
• 6 - modest (70%)
• 7 - very modest (80%)
• 8 - low-risk (90%)
• 9 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

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[…] written by someone used to hieroglyphs[…]

The text was poetry: one line per page, seven feet per line. The seventh foot was never set […]

[…] Betrayal, treason, desertion, revolt. A trapped thing turning in its trap. A cur biting out the bar of its cage. _____.

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  A Scholar of the Correspondence is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 13)
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 410 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Mysterious Client Attention Odds (hidden)

Depending on :

•  An interested party has made a request on your skills. (Sets Attracting the Attention of a Mysterious Client to 1)

Failure

Smouldering verse

It bore a kind of poetry: one line per page, seven feet per line. The seventh foot was never set down. The reader must reconstruct that sigil in their mind, unwritten, from the cadence of the rest.

[...] Discovering where the ink used to be takes wit [...]

• Watchful is increasing…
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained 200 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies