Chart forlorn pathways

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From: Ambiguous Cartography


What history has forgotten, cartography remembers.

Unlocked with Lead: Cartography 520-523

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 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

Trackless

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

Lead: CartographyDescription
520You uncover the Waswood Codices, which, naturally, can only be read in a mirror. The middle volume also requires the mirror be silvered in moonlight. You are gratified to later learn that the author was boiled alive in a hot Waswood spring.
521The Accounts of the Midnight Apostles. Acts VII:VII furnishes you with[…] improbable apostates who[…] shaped history, and whose dependence upon irrigo erased their contributions neatly afterwards. They can[…] be apportioned responsibility for all acts and none[…]
522You include a collection of scrolls from an emissary from the Vatican to the Presbyterate, keen to make up for the embarrassing mistake of identity in the Fifth Crusade[…] Between his fond wishes for what should be, you find glimpses of what was.
523You uncover […] phonograms[…] in a scrupulously neglected area of the Benthic Special Collections. Each features the supposed voice of a lily growing in the Lilymire, bearing witness to the unchanged aeons of Hell in fleshy and distressing squelches. Perfect.

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Failure

Gone

You take walking boots, a set of ancient charts, and your own good sense. You lose all three deep in the Prickfinger Wastes, whose ancient pinnacles scorn all interpretation. Perhaps there was a war here, perhaps an empire. Go and look for them now.