The red herald

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From: Time in bed

Action Cost: 3

For what might be hours, you listen to the beating of your heart. A kind of phantasmagoria comes upon you. Your body is a stranger to you.

Unlocked with  75–99

Locked with  7


Challenge information

A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 60%)

Success

A deep peace

Your body was assaulted, but it remains your castle: your thoughts like watchmen pacing the battlements, your heart like a water-mill. All is well. You heal, you thrive.


Failure

The murmur in the veins

Sometimes, one listens to the blood in one's veins, and it speaks to one of the disagreeable nature of mortality, of the uncleanliness of flesh, and of the inevitable feast of worms.[…]Sometimes, one badly needs distraction.

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