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From: A Borrowed Dream of Changing

There are no ready words for the things the Shapelings feel. Proper comprehension necessitates a new biology.

Challenge information

Narrow, Shapeling Arts 2 (50% base)

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

Success

Lessons of Shape and Change

[...] [Agent] shudders in remembrance.

The spread of justice through a sessile sea [...].

[...] spines and skin of the loved and reviled, repurposed into new [...] unjudged shapes. [Agent] observes [...] with [...] affection reserved for a beloved pet.

What have you learned? [...] [Agent] [...] shrug [...].

•  You've gained 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber
•  You've gained 2 x Cave-Aged Code of Honour
•  You've gained 3 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
•  You've gained 5 x Unearthly Fossil
•  You've gained 15 x Nodule of Warm Amber
•  Your 'A Song Sung in the Sea of Spines' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x An Accomplished Plotter
•  You've lost 1 x A Network Under Scrutiny
•  You've lost 1 x Regrowing Clay
•  You've gained 1 x Hands in the Honey-Pot
• Applied with unknown probability with no A Visitor to Your Honey-Den:
  •  Your honey-den has a distinguished visitor! (Sets A Visitor to Your Honey-Den to 1–6 (random))
• Applied with unknown probability with no A Dream of Scheming:
  •  A possibility presents itself. In concert with a similar possibility an Agent can discover while engaged in spywork, this may open up a lucrative opportunity. (Sets A Dream of Scheming to 1)
• With < 20 The Other Side of the Mirror:
  •  You've gained 0–1 x Parabolan Breadcrumb

Failure

Change's rebuke

[...] [Agent] sobs in remembrance.

[...]

[...] [Agent] observes [...] limbs with something approaching disgust.

What have you learned? What do you take from this? [Agent] affects a shrug, and collapses into a keening slime. [Agent pronoun] will recover, you think.

•  You've gained 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber
•  You've gained 2 x Cave-Aged Code of Honour
•  You've gained 5 x Unearthly Fossil
•  You've gained 15 x Nodule of Warm Amber
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  Your 'A Song Sung in the Sea of Spines' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x An Accomplished Plotter
•  You've lost 1 x A Network Under Scrutiny
•  You've lost 1 x Regrowing Clay
•  You've gained 1 x Hands in the Honey-Pot
• Applied with unknown probability with no A Visitor to Your Honey-Den:
  •  Your honey-den has a distinguished visitor! (Sets A Visitor to Your Honey-Den to 1–6 (random))
• Applied with unknown probability with no A Dream of Scheming:
  •  A possibility presents itself. In concert with a similar possibility an Agent can discover while engaged in spywork, this may open up a lucrative opportunity. (Sets A Dream of Scheming to 1)
• With < 20 The Other Side of the Mirror:
  •  You've gained 0–1 x Parabolan Breadcrumb