Consult texts of a speculative science
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From: Liminal Studies
Forbidden, much censored, and partial. The reading requires specialised knowledge to understand that which is not said as much as that which is.
Unlocked with Lead: Liminality 420-423
Locked with Librarian's Progress 200
Challenge information
Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 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
Charged matter
Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of Lead: Liminality.
Lead: Liminality | Description |
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421 | An Anatomy of the Unatanomical by an unknown scholar. Chapter 3, page six hundred. 'The horizon is altered by the observer. But what does the act of observation do upon the horizon?' |
422 | The Alterity in the Form: Suppression in the Physiognomy, Deleterious Effects Thereof: 'Every culture has its own afterlife: religion and empire both. […] The margin is the shadow of the interior, and it contains the monsters that culture fears most.' |
423 | Scarlet Science: The Unspoken and the Unbidden. A never-published undergraduate dissertation. 'Which comes first, the city or the farmland? Which supports the other? Can symbiotic relationship also be a spiral of decay?' |
424 | Ars Amatoria for the New Age: 'That which is beloved is held close by the lover. Exile is a step in the dance, imprisonment a shrine. Only annihilation is a manifestation of indifference.' |
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- You've gained 35 x Librarian's Progress
- You've gained 1 x Lead: Liminality
- You have a lead in the Partial Historiography section of the library. (Sets Lead: Partial Historiography to 420)
Failure
Destruction
The subjectery of the topics under concernment […] both unwise and a distraction to the health of the public good. […] Were our oculars in need of bifocals, they should […] be lowered and our expression […] most consternating […]
The censor […] zealous to a fault […][Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- You've lost 6 x Librarian's Progress