A Flowering Gallery

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ID: 363825

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The books here are in bloom! Boughs and roots and flowers growing out of the pages, taking over the shelves, digging into the hardwood floor. […] There's a fog of pollen in the air.

Description summary:
Part of the description varies based who you're Wandering the Stacks with:.

Wandering the Stacks with:	Description
The Last Duchess	The Last Duchess sneezes.
Tatterdemalion	Tatterdemalion sneezes.
The Lost Shepherd	The Lost Shepherd sneezes.
The Illuminated Shepherd	The Illuminated Sheperd sneezes.
Several Officers of your Crew	The Last Duchess sneezes.

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Unlocked with The Hour in the Library: is: An Hour of Weak Pale Sunlight, An Hour of Sickly Pale Sunlight

Card drawn in The Stacks

Occurs with Standard Frequency

Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.

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•  Spoiler ID: 266373
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Neathproofed 0 (50% base) || 0 - very chancy (50%) || 1 - chancy (60%) || 2 - modest (70%) || 3 - very modest (80%) || 4 - low-risk (90%) || 5 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Each point of Inerrant adds one point of Neathproofed.

  Success

  Onward

  •  You've gained 5 x Perusing the Stacks (if In Search of Lost Time is exactly 1)
  •  You've gained 5 x Finding the Centre (if In Search of Lost Time is exactly 2)

  Failure

  Briefly lost

  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+? CP, up to level 7)
  •  Noises in the Library is increasing… (+6 CP)

  ^

Eat the fruit of knowledge

•  Spoiler ID: 266374
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 12 (50% base) || 8 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 9 - high-risk (20%) || 10 - high-risk (30%) || 11 - tough (40%) || 12 - very chancy (50%) || 13 - chancy (60%) || 14 - modest (70%) || 15 - very modest (80%) || 16 - low-risk (90%) || 17 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Delicious

  •  You've gained 2 x Fragmentary Ontology

  Failure

  Retching

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
  •  Noises in the Library is increasing… (+1 CP)
  •  You've gained 1 x Perusing the Stacks (if In Search of Lost Time is exactly 1)
  •  You've gained 1 x Finding the Centre (if In Search of Lost Time is exactly 2)

  ^