Around the Embers

ID: 335223

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Shattered bricks enclose a shallow fire-pit, in which a few embers still struggle to glow. […] an enormous goat-demon rakes the ashes […]. But whenever a spark might consider catching, the coldness promptly snuffs it out again. […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

Unlocked with a redirect from Travel to the encampment or Travel to the encampment

Storylet appears in The Hurlers

Options:

Speak with the Caprine Vagabond

•  Spoiler ID: 246054
  

  Action Cost: 0
  Locked with Gone Grazing
  

   

  Success

  Cold greetings

  Redirects to: The Caprine Vagabond

  ^

Toss a few scraps into the fire

•  Spoiler ID: 247026
  

  Unlocked with 10 x Silk Scrap, Wounds
  

   

  Success

  Minor relief from the cold

  •  You've lost 10 x Silk Scrap
  •  Wounds is dropping… (-1 CP)

  ^

Prepare for an excavation

•  Spoiler ID: 246998
  

  Action Cost: 0
  Unlocked with Breaking the Ice 2
  

   

  Success

  A camp within a camp

  Redirects to: Excavating the Hurlers

  ^

Take the road you've built into the wastes (Infrastructural Development 1)

•  Spoiler ID: 247166
  

  Unlocked with Hurlers Infrastructural Development exactly 1
  

   

  Success

  A road to nowhere

  Redirects to: Desolation

  ^

Take the road you've built into the wastes (Infrastructural Development 2)

•  Spoiler ID: 247172
  

  Action Cost: 0
  Unlocked with Hurlers Infrastructural Development exactly 2
  

   

  Success

  A road to nowhere

  Redirects to: Desolation

  ^

Return to the station (Stoking the Stove < 8)

•  Spoiler ID: 246055
  

  Locked with Stoking the Stove 8
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Dangerous 175 || 120 - very chancy (41%) || 149 - chancy (51%) || 178 - modest (61%) || 208 - very modest (71%) || 237 - low-risk (81%) || 266 - straightforward (91%) || 292 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Difficulty is logistic with Neathproofed: $215-{\frac {80}{1+e^{-{\frac {9}{10}}\cdot ({\textrm {Neathproofed}}-2)}}}$.
  Exact difficulty values are given in the table below:

  Success

  Back toward the tracks

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  •  You've gained 1 x Hand-picked Peppercaps

  Failure

  Back toward the tracks

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

Return to the station (Stoking the Stove 8)

•  Spoiler ID: MISSING
  

  Unlocked with Stoking the Stove 8
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Dangerous 260 || 178 - very chancy (41%) || 221 - chancy (51%) || 265 - modest (61%) || 308 - very modest (71%) || 351 - low-risk (81%) || 395 - straightforward (91%) || 434 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Each point of Neathproofed reduces the base difficulty by 15 points.

  Success

  Bumbling through the darkness

  • Dangerous is increasing…

  Failure

  Bumbling through the darkness

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^