Search the chamber of socks

ID: 157454

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From: Old Downy

A mountain dominates this bare room: a Kilimanjaro of knotted socks – grey, black, plain, patterned. Any one of them could hold your prize. Some of their bulges twitch. Others wriggle.

Unlocked with  exactly 65

Challenge information

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• 110 - very chancy (41%)
• 136 - chancy (51%)
• 163 - modest (61%)
• 190 - very modest (71%)
• 216 - low-risk (81%)
• 243 - straightforward (91%)
• 267 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

An ancient trick

Like the false tomb of an Egyptian King, this is a snare for thieves. There is no treasure here. A simple mind hides a needle in a haystack; a cunning one builds the haystack, then hides the needle somewhere else.

You check the walls. […] a hatch […]

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy. (Sets Ambition: Heart's Desire! to 70 - Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy)

Redirects to: Old Downy

Failure

Horrors unending

[…] one holds something brown and glistening that makes your skin pucker in blisters. This one holds a bundle of hair and razors. This one holds a knot of fingers, each with a pale band where a ring once sat. This one holds a young sorrow-spider […]

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy. (Sets Ambition: Heart's Desire! to 50 - Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy. You can enter from a card in London)

Redirects to: Old Downy