Beguile unwitting scholars

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From: Partial Historiography


There are still living luminaries of the field upon which your current project touches. With flattery, they may be willing to lend their assistance.

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 125

  • 86 - very chancy (41%)
  • 107 - chancy (51%)
  • 128 - modest (61%)
  • 148 - very modest (71%)
  • 169 - low-risk (81%)
  • 190 - straightforward (91%)
  • 209 - straightforward (100%)

Success

The art of study

It takes little to entice an academic. [...] A fond smile from the back of an emptying lecture theatre, attendance at their most stultifying seminars. [...] invitation to take a quick glance at your latest work. Their notes arrive [...] in three separate volumes.

Failure

Misfired compliments

Not only do the ingrates fail to help, they slander your name to every reputable publication in London. […] Imagine, they are saying, what a prize dunce you must be. They will be sorry when the day of your publication arrives.

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