Climb to the tallest parapet

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From: All Around the Count's Rock


A folly of a long-dead duke, the tower here is almost as tall as the city's great belfry. What views might you get from such heights?


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 170

  • 117 - very chancy (41%)
  • 145 - chancy (51%)
  • 173 - modest (61%)
  • 202 - very modest (71%)
  • 230 - low-risk (81%)
  • 258 - straightforward (91%)
  • 284 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Insubstantial adds 15 points of Watchful.

Success

A view from below

[…] Off to the south-east, the belfry looms, tall enough to escape the city's inversion. […] the sole object in Burgundy high enough to defy local notions of up and down, […] Could you leap? Could you touch the point where up becomes down, and linger there?

[…]

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Failure

Untrustworthy handholds

A loose brick. A guardsman […] The briefest failure of your grip, and a scramble to recover. In isolation, none of these […] would be a disaster. In combination, they cause the kind of ruckus that chases you with pikes all the way to the market square.

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