Blast your (growth) with light

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From: Vertiginous Horticulture


The import of sunlight into London is, of course, frightfully illegal. But there are other means of illumination.

Unlocked with Nurturing a Rooftop Growth 1 - 150, Rooftop Growth, Light Preference: Sunlight, The Airs of London 51-75


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 75

  • 52 - very chancy (41%)
  • 64 - chancy (51%)
  • 77 - modest (61%)
  • 89 - very modest (71%)
  • 102 - low-risk (81%)
  • 114 - straightforward (91%)
  • 125 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Precipitous illumination

[…] a nearby attic with an open window contains an Augmented Electrostatic Machine [...]. Once liberated to the rooftop, and used in concert with a plethora of lamps, candles and flares [Text], you are able to well and truly bathe the [Growth] in light.

Description summary:
The beginning of the description varies with Rooftop Growth. The final sentence has extra text if you have Augmented Electrostatic Machine.

GrowthDescription
2: 'Dawn-Yodeller' MandrakesMandrakes are hardy, but they prefer to be in sunlight. Among the delightful properties of this 'Dawn-Yodeller' breed is that their cries become louder and less harmonious the brighter the light.
6: Millennium RosesIf these roses truly are from the garden-palaces of the College of Mortality, nestled at the base of the Mountain of Light, then they are used to a great deal of illumination indeed.
Have it?Text
Yes(as well as your own electrostatic machine, lugged roofwards with great personal effort)

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Alternative Success

The chains of illumination

[...] Once liberated to the rooftop, and used in concert with a plethora of lamps, candles and flares [Text], you are able to well and truly bathe the [Growth] in light. [...]

Wiki note: Occurs 50% of the time.


Failure

The finer points of horticultural science

Your efforts [...] are [...] interrupted by the [...] Horticulturist, [...] to explain [...] photosynthesis is "a myth promulgated by [...] Surface florists." She claims [...] growth [...] is inhibited [...] by "miasmatic airs" [...] counteracted [...] through "gentle persuasion and the application of suitable punishment [...]."
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