Safely dispose of a cold word

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From: The Business of a Correspondent

A Reader in the Correspondence saw a sigil she should not have seen. The damage lingers in the Lowest Reading Room. Some inversion of the Treachery of Shapes, they think.

Unlocked with  50-70,

Challenge information

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• 96 - very chancy (41%)
• 119 - chancy (51%)
• 143 - modest (61%)
• 166 - very modest (71%)
• 189 - low-risk (81%)
• 213 - straightforward (91%)
• 234 - 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, 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

Magnetism of Flesh

[…]

Repairing the Librarian is a professional triumph. Repairing the Lowest Reading Room – eyes closed so you don't read the writing on the wall, […] with two Impossible Theorems committed to memory? That is a red miracle.

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

• Watchful is increasing…
• [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

A Bind

Only an Artisan of the Red Science could repair the damage. The Discordant word is a false friend – uncommonly easy for someone conversant with the Red Science to read. To misconstrue. And it is very nearly impossible not to wonder–

[...]

• 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