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ID: 6481

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From: Search for information on the Scowling Flint Idol

Where do you start? The section on the Third City? the Fourth? Tales of the Silk Road? Classical Myths? Lost Gods? Confounded Devils?

Challenge information

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• 28 - very chancy (42%)
• 34 - chancy (51%)
• 41 - modest (61%)
• 48 - very modest (72%)
• 54 - low-risk (81%)
• 61 - straightforward (91%)
• 67 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

A memory tugs at your sleeve

[…] Dr Balthus, who led four expeditions into the Elder Continent […] sketched something like the idol, but far bigger […] they called it the 'Giver-of-Skins'. Anyone who made a sacrifice to the idol was immediately put to death for foolishness. […]

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• Watchful is increasing…
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained 22 x Cryptic Clue

Rare Success

A memory tugs at your sleeve

[…] the villagers seized his stock of candles and threw them on the hearth-fire, lest they attract the Giver. They extirpate bees there, too, […] since the Giver comes to the hives and eats the wax. He mentions other details, none of them very pleasant.

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Wiki note: the Rare Success includes extra text, but the rewards are the same as for the regular version.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained 22 x Cryptic Clue

Failure

Scraps and fragments

One pamphlet describes something like the idol, but it turns out to be […] an artists' prank. […] Then there's some mis-filed nonsense about the Walking Gargoyles of St Cadfael's Vale. You toss it aside in disgust.

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• Watchful is increasing…
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)