Study antique terrain

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From: Ambiguous Cartography


Your collection of maps includes those of Hell's hinterland.

Unlocked with  401-403

Locked with  200


Challenge information

Broad, 177

  • 121 - very chancy (41%)
  • 151 - chancy (51%)
  • 180 - modest (61%)
  • 210 - very modest (71%)
  • 239 - low-risk (81%)
  • 269 - straightforward (91%)
  • 295 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Tracing the contours

Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of .

Lead: CartographyDescription
402A gondolier's map of the canals reveals a lattice of waterways branching from the Octagonal Tomb. Was irrigation once performed there?
403Two ragged thirds of a larger map transpire to be both of Hell and of London. The missing piece is, therefore, the territory in between. Evidence from an absence is always tricky but […] you can at least infer that the terrain has always been expansive.
404An old pilgrim's guide with an iron drum upon its embossed leather reveals the seven primary chapels and shrines that encircle Hell. The guide refers to them as the Ring of the Lilies.

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


Failure

Errors and portents

The maps, when unrolled, prove less helpful than might be desired. [...] A piece of singed cloth here might have been the hidden shrine of the Chanticleer, but is, more likely, where some less conscientious collector has placed a mug of hot tea.