What's written here?

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ID: 9175

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From: The Religions of Corpsecage Island

A stone tablet and a few columns have the scratchy writing of the Fourth City on them.

Challenge information

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• 84 - very chancy (41%)
• 104 - chancy (51%)
• 125 - modest (61%)
• 145 - very modest (71%)
• 165 - low-risk (81%)
• 186 - straightforward (91%)
• 204 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Far to the East

This isn't a temple covered in prayers. This is […] a set of directions. You can't decipher all of it, […] there's somewhere East over the Unterzee, or at least there was. Somewhere that zailors of the Fourth City called 'our last bastion and salvation'.

Description summary:
You determine that what you've found is a map leading somewhere East over the Unterzee.

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 61 x Cryptic Clue
•  Orthos is Coming! is increasing… (+2 CP)

Rare Success

South and East

This isn't a temple covered in prayers. This is […] a set of directions. You can't decipher all of it, […] There's somewhere East over the Unterzee. But on the way there, the zailors of the Fourth City visited the Elder Continent. […]

Description summary:
You determine that you've found a map leading somewhere East in the Unterzee, with a detour in the Elder Continent.

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 5 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
•  Orthos is Coming! is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  Walking the Falling Cities is increasing… (+1 CP)

Failure

Hardly worth the effort

Whoever this writer was, they had an original vocabulary and a shaky chisel. After hours of examining the faded inscriptions, you have a vague idea they were talking about tortoises. You also have a thumping headache.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Orthos is Coming! is increasing… (+1 CP)