A Law in a Bottle
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It's dark in here. A private arena for you and the rogue law […] It knows it is cornered. You feel the ripple of its anticipation – it will fight like cornered beings do: 
[Law behavior].
Description summary:
| Law type | Law behavior |
|---|---|
| Spatial | ripping at the space within you, trying to sunder you from yourself |
| Temporal | running your life in reverse, as fast as it can |
| Causal | turning everything you might do to it back on yourself |
| Ontological | inverting the order of things, making you less and it more |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Unlocked with a redirect from Pin down the rogue (type) law
Storylet appears in 
Within a reinforced glass jar on your pantry shelf
Options:
Spring the trap (spatial law)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Hunting a Law: exactly 1
Success
Lexicologist's Jar
You have moved to a new area: Watchmaker's Hill
Spatial Laws Hunted is now (new value). (Raises 
Spatial Laws Hunted by 1)
You've gained 1 x Searing Enigma
You've gained 1 x Antique Mystery
You've gained 2 x Sworn Statement
'Hunting a Law:' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
'Capturing a Law' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
Your 'The Reshaping of Law' Quality has gone! (hidden)
Your 'The Form of Pursuit' Quality has gone!
Your 'The Form of Law' Quality has gone!- Your 'Form Change Indicator' Quality has gone! (hidden)
You've gained 1 x Laws Hunted- Space stretches and strains like an overstuffed rat. (Sets A Reorganisation of Space to 50 - Careful where you step) (if above 50)
Spring the trap (temporal law)
- Spoiler Unlocked with Hunting a Law: exactly 2
Success
Lexicologist's Jar
- You have moved to a new area: Watchmaker's Hill
Temporal Laws Hunted is now (new value). (Raises 
Temporal Laws Hunted by 1)- You've gained 2 x Sworn Statement
You've gained 1 x Night-Whisper
You've gained 1 x Cave-Aged Code of Honour- 'Hunting a Law:' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- 'Capturing a Law' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- Your 'The Reshaping of Law' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- Your 'The Form of Pursuit' Quality has gone!
- Your 'The Form of Law' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Form Change Indicator' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- Your 'Rogue Laws: An Advantage?' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- You've gained 1 x Laws Hunted
Time runs like honey. (Sets 
A Disruption to the Order of Time to 50 - ticktock ticktock tocktick ticktock) (if above 50)
Spring the trap (causal law)
- Spoiler Unlocked with Hunting a Law: exactly 3
Success
Lexicologist's Jar
- You have moved to a new area: Watchmaker's Hill
Causal Laws Hunted is now (new value). (Raises 
Causal Laws Hunted by 1)- You've gained 2 x Sworn Statement
You've gained 1 x Mortification of a Great Power
You've gained 1 x Legal Document- 'Hunting a Law:' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- 'Capturing a Law' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- Your 'The Reshaping of Law' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- Your 'The Form of Pursuit' Quality has gone!
- Your 'The Form of Law' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Form Change Indicator' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- Your 'Rogue Laws: An Advantage?' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- You've gained 1 x Laws Hunted
Effect can sometimes be induced to follow cause. Where it cannot, effect must be reconciled with its proper cause. (Sets 
A Confounded Causality to 50) (if above 50)
Spring the trap (ontological law)
- Spoiler Unlocked with Hunting a Law: exactly 4
Success
Lexicologist's Jar
- You have moved to a new area: Watchmaker's Hill
Ontological Laws Hunted is now (new value). (Raises 
Ontological Laws Hunted by 1)- You've gained 2 x Sworn Statement
- You've gained 1 x Oneiromantic Revelation
You've gained 1 x Storm-Threnody- 'Hunting a Law:' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- 'Capturing a Law' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- Your 'The Reshaping of Law' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- Your 'The Form of Pursuit' Quality has gone!
- Your 'The Form of Law' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Form Change Indicator' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- Your 'Rogue Laws: An Advantage?' Quality has gone! (hidden)
- You've gained 1 x Laws Hunted
- The order of things remains uncertain, but its oddities have been observed. (Sets A Twisted Ontology to 50 - Status quo vadis?) (if above 50)
Consider an alternative strategy
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Laws Hunted 20
Locked with
A Ragtag Gang of Outlaws
Success
Signing on
- You have moved to a new area: Watchmaker's Hill
- 'Hunting a Law:' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- 'Capturing a Law' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- Your 'The Form of Pursuit' Quality has gone!
- Your 'The Form of Law' Quality has gone!
- You've gained 1 x Laws Hunted
An occurrence! Your 'A Ragtag Gang of Outlaws' Quality is now 1!
