Apply unwise chemical substances with wild abandon
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From: Liminal Studies
The true scholar knows scorn from their peers is the spice of life, and parsimony is fit only for the dead.
Unlocked with 
Lead: Liminality 530-533
Locked with 
Librarian's Progress 200
Challenge information
Narrow, 
Kataleptic Toxicology 11 (50% base)
- 7 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 8 - high-risk (20%)
- 9 - high-risk (30%)
- 10 - tough (40%)
- 11 - very chancy (50%)
- 12 - chancy (60%)
- 13 - modest (70%)
- 14 - very modest (80%)
- 15 - low-risk (90%)
- 16 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
The mutability of history
Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of 
Lead: Liminality.
| Lead: Liminality | Description |
|---|---|
| 531 | Distilled, the waters of the Waswood can cause a text to divert most unexpectedly. With a steady hand, the course of Neathy ecology shifts into surprising tributaries. One must only take care not to linger too long in the eddies. |
| 532 | The Second City was renowned for its poisoned practices. Many came from the forms of diverse long extinct creatures […] It is curious to compare the extrusions Mr Heart's made of its Second City animals compared to its current Fifth City batch. |
| 533 | It is difficult work, toad-squeezing. Too hard, and one has too much squeeze and too little toad. Too soft, and the wretched thing falls asleep. You must coax, cajole and encourage, until the luminous beast […] and reveals an alternate history hidden […] |
| 534 | It seems wise to bathe these texts, written in irrigo ink, in poison. To […] let them steam out their emptiness, to reveal instead an illuminated path between the past and the present. That which was done in the First City, […] stands revealed. Horrible. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
You have a lead in the Ambiguous Cartography section of the library. (Sets 
Lead: Cartography to 520, if below 521)
You've gained 41 x Librarian's Progress
You have a lead in the Liminal Studies section of the library. (Raises Lead: Liminality by 1)
Failure
Overexuberance
You wake up the next morning surrounded by cups and jars, a broken alembic and an entire astrolabe. Your hands are pink. As are your pages. As is the ink which you wrote on them. Strong tea is required, and a bin.
Wounds is increasing… (+5 CP)
