Try not to understand

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From: Reach out to the mind of the city


Understand the inverse of what you need to know.

Unlocked with The Mind's Ascent exactly 2

Locked with Nightmares 8


Challenge information

Narrow, Steward of the Discordance 4 (50% base)

  • 0 - almost impossible (10%)
  • 1 - high-risk (20%)
  • 2 - high-risk (30%)
  • 3 - tough (40%)
  • 4 - very chancy (50%)
  • 5 - chancy (60%)
  • 6 - modest (70%)
  • 7 - very modest (80%)
  • 8 - low-risk (90%)
  • 9 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Not to have always not been this

To imagine what the city is not is easy. [...]

The difficulty is imagining what it is they are not and were not before, but must [...] be, in order to form the present city. What do they now possess they lacked before? [...] The head aches, but the hand writes.
  • 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

Not to be that which not isn't

To subtract from the summation of what is is not the first principle of the Discordance. [...] the elements that have produced the city, derive from those its context, [...] relationships, ideologies, influences, historical developments, [...] a splitting migraine.

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