(Carefully) read a flame-proof missive
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From: Read incoming mail
Set aside an evening for it. Keep a bowl of cold water and some towels handy.
Game Instructions: This will increase your Dangerous and Watchful. It will also hurt, and increase your Scholar of the Correspondence quality by an uncertain amount, as long as your unmodified Watchful is high enough. The lower your A Scholar of the Correspondence quality, the more effective this is at raising it. It will consume the Missive.
Unlocked with 
1 x Flame-proof Missive (Compile notes on the Correspondence), 
A Scholar of the Correspondence
Success
Singed
It's slow work, reading and transcribing. You manage to get out with most of your eyebrows still intact.
You've lost 1 x Flame-proof Missive
A Scholar of the Correspondence is increasing… (+? CP, up to level 21)
Wiki note: You only gain 
SotC if your base 
Watchful is strictly greater than 10 times your current SotC level.
Dangerous is increasing… (+see below CP, up to level 200 + 
Dangerous Gains)
Watchful is increasing… (+see below CP, up to level 200 + Watchful Gains)
Wounds is increasing… (+1-9 CP)
You've gained 2 x Mired in Mail
Starting  Mired in Mail | 0–3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ≥9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D and W CP[1] | 70 | 69 | 63 | 42 | 21 | 15 | 14 |
| Ending Mired in Mail | 2–5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ≥11 |
- ↑ Assumes level 69+. Lower levels gain less CP
