Blacken your mind like paper

This content is part of the Mr Eaten storyline.

A player-created Guide is available for this content: Seeking Mr Eaten's Name (Guide)

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ID: 119870

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From: The Seeking Road

A kind of meditation has come to you in dreams. Look into the candle's heart. Breathe. Take something you learnt. Make a fist. Open your hand. Listen for the echo.

Game Instructions: This will have a savage effect on your Watchful.

Unlocked with Watchful (50 + SMEN²), Seeking Mr Eaten's Name 2, Mourning Candle

Locked with Sudden Insight

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

Watchful, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (100 + SMEN²). The above example is at SMEN level 10.

Success

Making friends

Yes you have forgotten their names. […] neglected their business. No you do not recall their faces. If they laugh at you let them […] you will steal their treasures. You will sculpt them of wax. When the time comes all of you will burn together.

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• Watchful is increasing…
•  Scandal is increasing… (+( Seeking Mr Eaten's Name) CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Seeking Mr Eaten's Name
•  An occurrence! Your 'Watchful' Quality is now [ Base Watchful halved]!
•  Connected: Benthic is dropping… (-77 CP)
•  Connected: Summerset is dropping… (-77 CP)
•  You've lost 5 x Favours: Society
•  You've lost 5 x Favours: Bohemians
•  You've lost 5 x Favours: The Church
•  You've lost 1 x Mourning Candle (hidden)

Alternative Success

A difficult business

There is wax on the walls. Your clothes are torn. The street growls. Your hands are seared. Your lips are wet. Your eyes burn. There is wax on the walls. More.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+( Seeking Mr Eaten's Name) CP)
•  Wounds is increasing… (+( Seeking Mr Eaten's Name) CP)
•  Scandal is increasing… (+( Seeking Mr Eaten's Name) CP)
•  You've gained 1 x Seeking Mr Eaten's Name
•  An occurrence! Your 'Watchful' Quality is now [ Base Watchful halved]!
•  You've lost 1 x Mourning Candle (hidden)

Failure

Learning to forget

Your mind is a garden. The hedges smoulder. Less. Less. Gone. You have gained nothing.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  An occurrence! Your 'Watchful' Quality is now [ Base Watchful halved]!
•  An occurrence! Your 'Nightmares' Quality is now [current Seeking Mr Eaten's Name]!
•  You've gained 1 x Unaccountably Peckish (up to 10)
•  You've lost 1 x Mourning Candle (hidden)

Alternative Failure

The place that words go

Your mouth is a box. Your lips are a lock. Your tongue is a treasure. Open your mouth and it will be stolen. But seal your mouth and it will wither, wither. You have gained nothing.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  An occurrence! Your 'Watchful' Quality is now [ Base Watchful halved]!
•  An occurrence! Your 'Wounds' Quality is now [current Seeking Mr Eaten's Name]!
•  You've gained 1 x Unaccountably Peckish (up to 10)
•  You've lost 1 x Mourning Candle (hidden)