A Poison-Gallery

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ID: 363589

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The books here leak and drip – rivulets of caustic liquid, bleaching the wood of the shelves. This corridor is an ankle-deep poison river, hissing and sputtering.

Card drawn in The Stacks

Occurs with Standard Frequency

Options:

Use furniture as stepping stones

•  Spoiler ID: 266194
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Shadowy 240 || 164 - very chancy (41%) || 204 - chancy (51%) || 244 - modest (61%) || 284 - very modest (71%) || 324 - low-risk (81%) || 364 - straightforward (91%) || 400 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Each point of Neathproofed adds 15 points of Shadowy.

  Success

  Like crossing a river

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  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

  Terrible danger

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+3 CP)
  •  Noises in the Library is increasing… (+6 CP)

  ^

Prepare an antidote

•  Spoiler ID: 266198
  

  Unlocked with 1 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 10 (50% base) || 6 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 7 - high-risk (20%) || 8 - high-risk (30%) || 9 - tough (40%) || 10 - very chancy (50%) || 11 - chancy (60%) || 12 - modest (70%) || 13 - very modest (80%) || 14 - low-risk (90%) || 15 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Safe

  •  You've lost 1 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  •  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

  An error in calculation?

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+2 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)
  •  Noises in the Library is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

The Coilheart Games

Peruse a book bound in banded scales

•  Spoiler ID: 267791
  

  Unlocked with The Coilheart Games is 3 (World Quality, now locked), Of Stripes, and Coils 230-299
  Locked with Lead: A History in Banded Scales
  

   

  Success

  Scales of justice

  •  In some stories, the prisoner lived free. (Raises Lead: A History in Banded Scales by 1)
  •  Huffam will want to hear of this. And then double-check it scrupulously. (Raises Bearing Valuable Leads by 1)
  •  Noises in the Library is increasing… (+5 CP)

  ^