Begin an expedition

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From: Unanticipated Ecologies


The bodies of the living teeter on the bones of the past. If you wish to unearth a true history, one must be prepared to dig.

Unlocked with Lead: Ecology 530-533

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 230

  • 158 - very chancy (41%)
  • 196 - chancy (51%)
  • 234 - modest (61%)
  • 273 - very modest (71%)
  • 311 - low-risk (81%)
  • 349 - straightforward (91%)
  • 384 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Forlorn sepulchres

Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of Lead: Ecology.

Lead: EcologyDescription
530[…]a library near the Sere Palace[…] contains[…] every dream of the attendants who once lived there. […]you comb through these archives[…] you catch glimpses of the life of the mind of the Second City, and what it thought its animals were when they roamed Parabola.
531[…]an infernal storehouse, emerged from the silt since Jericho locked the waterways. Within its mouldering carapace, you find old laws and broken edicts – on what was, what is, and what could be. In all instances, a fracturing of light is required.
532The Forgotten Quarter hides many secrets[…]. You prowl that fog-haunted desolation, retrieving scrolls and tomes, letters, diaries and gold-scribed breviaries[…]you uncover something of the design of the Motherlings: that growth is best measured fractally.
533There is no greater expedition than one you can mount within[…]your own library[…]you happen upon some scribbled notes, the conclusions of which are simply genius.[…]the author left nothing by way of identification. It's not plagiarism to borrow from yourself[…]

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Failure

Ah, bliss

You spend many happy hours planning your trip. You unearth maps, charts, old logbooks and journals of expeditions[…]. […]before a roaring fire you while away evenings, contemplating your perfect expedition[…]. It seems a shame to ruin it by actually going[…].

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