Arrive at an Oneiromantic Revelation

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From: The Study of Vitreous Almanacs


You know a portion of what Is Not. What, then, Will Not Be?

Unlocked with 5 x Vitreous Almanac


Challenge information

Narrow, Glasswork 7 (50% base)

  • 3 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 4 - high-risk (20%)
  • 5 - high-risk (30%)
  • 6 - tough (40%)
  • 7 - very chancy (50%)
  • 8 - chancy (60%)
  • 9 - modest (70%)
  • 10 - very modest (80%)
  • 11 - low-risk (90%)
  • 12 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Construction

[…] Hold the terrain of Parabola in your mind, together with all you know of London and its history […]

With these thoughts, also hold the knowledge of the other cities that have come to the Neath, […] and all you know of their histories.

And so, understand: […]

Description summary:
The third paragraph varies with Airs of Parabola.

Wiki note: The values here should be double-checked.

Wiki note: Numbers unaccounted for: 19, 29 – 31, 67 – 69, 89 – 90, 97 – 100

Airs of ParabolaThird paragraph
1 - 18the Chessboard is one of many game-boards in Parabola. There are other games: some skill, some chance, some of daring and bluff. There are other kingdoms, and some of these do not consider it merit when they prevail, but only Fortune.
20 - 28devils hunt now in the Forgotten Quarter. Time was when their silver hunting-horns rang out over Parabola instead […] Perhaps that is even where they got a taste for the sport – though one can't be sure.
32 - 49there are dreamers who have slept for centuries, holding fast their corner of Parabola, in the dream-company of spouses and children long since passed into dust: a private Waswood for a singular past. But when they wake, Parabola will wash all clean.
50 - 66there are pyramids and ziggurats […] There are cenotes[…], and hanging gardens, and ball-courts, all thriving as though newly built.[…] these districts conceal themselves from Londoners, so that you will not commit the effrontery of finding them antique.
70 - 88spiders dream in Parabola, whole citadels of silk. If you could find that place, you could walk in those same palaces, though you would soon lose your way.
91 - 96even Polythreme has dreams. Sometimes, its resting denizens will shed a sentient harpsichord or a disgruntled tuba into some adjacent sleeper's field.

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Failure

Construction

[…] Hold the terrain of Parabola in your mind, together with all you know of London and its history […]

With these thoughts, also hold the knowledge of the other cities that have come to the Neath, […] and all you know of their histories.

And so, understand: […]

Description summary:
The third paragraph varies with Airs of Parabola.

Wiki note: The values here should be double-checked.

Wiki note: Numbers unaccounted for: 19, 29 – 31, 67 – 69, 89 – 90, 97 – 100

Airs of ParabolaThird paragraph
1 - 18the Chessboard is one of many game-boards in Parabola. There are other games; there are other kingdoms, waging their wars not as chess but as poker or roulette; gathering their dead with a croupier's hook.
20 - 28devils hunt now in the Forgotten Quarter. Time was […] their silver hunting-horns rang out over Parabola instead, and devils played the Nightmare's part. How many Surface dreamers […] woke sweating and eager to tithe to their church?
32 - 49there are dreamers who have slept for centuries, holding fast their corner of Parabola, so that an inhabitant there might almost fancy they lived in the Is. Families of Fingerkings are born and nest there, and grow old in that facsimile of Being.
50 - 66there are pyramids and ziggurats in Parabola, and mound-cities: abandoned long ago when their inhabitants decided that the life of a city was unhealthy and unkind.
70 - 88spiders dream in Parabola. In the thick webbing of their dreams, every sort of succulent insect is caught and lies ready to eat. Every larger animal is also an insect: […] all dreamed with faceted eyes and sweetly fluid bodies.
91 - 96even Polythreme has dreams. Sometimes, the screaming can be heard in other nightmares far away.

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