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From: Unanticipated Ecologies


Induce a Starved Lithographer to comment. They must see a very great deal, all the way up there...

Unlocked with Lead: Ecology 520-523

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 177

  • 121 - very chancy (41%)
  • 151 - chancy (51%)
  • 180 - modest (61%)
  • 210 - very modest (71%)
  • 239 - low-risk (81%)
  • 269 - straightforward (91%)
  • 295 - straightforward (100%)

Success

For all, without sight

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

Lead: EcologyDescription
520In a language of rattling clacks and broken bones, the Lithologer demonstrates the processes of ascension written upon their own flesh. They were not always thus. Their parents were different still.
521The Lithologer produces discs of burnished bone, upon which lie recorded the histories of his own Starved Citadel. Peoples rise and fall, citadels are incorporated and destroyed, each component replaced – and yet it remains the same.
522You pore over amber relics of the Shapeling Arts, noting the forms that survive from Flukedom and those that have branched like a tree struck by lightning. There are breakages and dead ends[…] you emerge with an overwhelming sense of 'flourishment'.
523The Starved Men have their own records of London. Those[…]convey a sense of[…]mystification, and of yearning. […]not for London's lifestyles nor its people, but rather for its carriages, hansoms and ships. […]the Starved Men have begun to have their own ideas...

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]


Failure

Cultural differences

They are new to London, and newer still to London's customs. Books, for instance. So very malleable. And their spines sever even more easily... The aesthetic effect is striking, but you were hoping to use that Reading Room again.