Consult the texts of the Grand Sanatoria

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From: Liminal Studies


The dead hold these tomes fast and insist on sending a chaperone. But in ancient days, the cities before your own knew the Presbyterate when Elder was not so old.

Unlocked with Lead: Liminality 620-623

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 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

Hidden in plain sight

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

Lead: LiminalityDescription
620The Withered Illuminator guards her texts closely, until you slip her a third gin. Then, dozing, you are at liberty to read. The Third City, it seemed, had frequent contact with a place known as Ixander, which is now no longer recorded.
621The Withered Illuminator is distracted […] You seize the opportunity to consult a ledger from a prior Sanatorium, which it seems once offered pleasure cruises around the northern fringe of the Continent. Until[…] the Mithridates Office found out.
622The Withered Illuminator is distracted […] You […] peruse her own notes on what she is and is not permitted to let you read. The most forbidden chapter is found at the back of the final volume[…] a meeting between the Copper and the former Lord of Mereid.
623The Withered Illuminator gives up and wrangles a volume from you. She is the more able translator and in a trice has furnished you with a full volume of the seven cantos of the Presbyter's Lament, a widely circulated and highly forbidden text.

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Failure

Damnable interruption

The Withered Illuminator reads faster than a candle burns, and turns each page before you are halfway finished. She closes the book at the stroke of noon and makes ready to depart. Apparently there is a game of gin rummy she cannot afford to miss.