Climb the heaving stair

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From: Old Downy


When you're halfway up, the stair begins to twitch. You brace yourself.

Unlocked with Ambition: Heart's Desire! exactly 70


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 160

  • 110 - very chancy (41%)
  • 136 - chancy (51%)
  • 163 - modest (61%)
  • 190 - very modest (71%)
  • 216 - low-risk (81%)
  • 243 - straightforward (91%)
  • 267 - straightforward (100%)

Success

The final door

The stairway spasms, strenuously, like a cat's throat trying to disgorge an overambitious gobbet of mouse. When it tires, you take the steps four at a time. At their top stands a door. Behind it, several voices are talking at once.
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  • Heartsdesiresmall.png Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy. (Sets Ambition: Heart's Desire! to 75 - Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy)

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Failure

Overcome

Plaster cracks, sloughing from the walls like flakes of dead skin. The ceiling buckles. Dust pours. You fall backwards, tossed and battered. The steps grind as fiercely as the molars of a giant.

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