Encase yourself in a fortified bubble of time

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Chronology is as vital to science as motion, energy and mass. The Red Science makes use of all of the latter. Surely, then, it can make use of the former.

Unlocked with The Mind's Ascent exactly 2

Locked with Nightmares 8


Challenge information

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 10 (50% base)

  • 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 7 - high-risk (20%)
  • 8 - high-risk (30%)
  • 9 - tough (40%)
  • 10 - very chancy (50%)
  • 11 - chancy (60%)
  • 12 - modest (70%)
  • 13 - very modest (80%)
  • 14 - low-risk (90%)
  • 15 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Red Time

[...] one can change one's perception of its passage. A city cannot take time as we do [...] time is a flicker, a blur, a deep stream in which the city swims [...]

You experiment [...] A coffin, where time moves slow [...] Days flicker and ignite like pages turned too fast. [...]
  • Gleamsmall.png You are a little less and a little more yourself. (Increases The Mind's Ascent by +1 CP)

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Failure

Best left alone

One cannot travel through time other than to live in it. To step outside of it is to enter the Boethian paradox and lie trapped in amber […] processes best left at their regular tempo. You achieve nothing but a new palette for your worst dreams.

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