Compile a Catalogue of False Witness

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From: Partial Historiography


Sift truth from falsehood by a full accounting of deceit.

Unlocked with Lead: Partial Historiography 501-503

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Narrow, Mithridacy 10 (50% base)

  • 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 7 - high-risk (20%)
  • 8 - high-risk (30%)
  • 9 - tough (40%)
  • 10 - very chancy (50%)
  • 11 - chancy (60%)
  • 12 - modest (70%)
  • 13 - very modest (80%)
  • 14 - low-risk (90%)
  • 15 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Not always lost

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

Lead: Partial HistoriographyDescription
501You upend a hoary tome of Thislebald's Impossible Epistles and out slides a Beechwood original: an engraving of an ape, plummeting from a tree. A man dusts himself off as he rises.
502This copy of A Condensed History of the Starved Men written on very inappropriate material – namely, scrimshaw. It contains a family tree, which on closer reflection, appears to consist of a single individual.
503You use a scalpel bathed in violant to peel apart palimpsests of forgotten hagiographies and neglected chronicles.[…]you find a number of startling similarities pertaining to the foundations of various Neathy communities. All entirely denied, of course.

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Failure

The unexamined life

History is malleable; within its dusty embrace all manner of absurdity can dwell comfortably.[…]obscure historians have been all manner of inventive. A fascinating hour for the student of the fabricator, but a frustrating one for a scholar of the truth.

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