Continue writing your Monograph

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Perhaps you can examine some relevant texts and artefacts. Perhaps you can look further afield for context. Perhaps you can fabricate facts wholesale.

Description summary:
Descriptions change depending on the monograph's qualities.

Depth of Historical StudyDescription
1Your monograph is still a work in progress.
2 – 3You have enough material for a short paper.
4 – 5You have enough material for a slim volume.
6 – 7You have enough material for a long thesis.
CautionaryDescription
0You have avoided inserting so-called 'cautionary advice' into your monograph.
100 – 200Your monograph can't help but draw some lessons from the past.
300 – 400Your monograph adds up to a cautionary tale.
500 +Your monograph is meant to shock the audience into learning something.
IronicDescription
0Your monograph is drier than a tomb-colonist's snuff-box.
50 – 200You've let slip in slivers and barbs of irony.
300 – 400Your monograph is quite ironic.
500 +Your monograph is very ironic, farcical event. Isn't all history?
TragicDescription
0Your monograph avoids melodrama.
100 – 200Your monograph has some flashes of tragedy.
300 – 400Your monograph builds to a tragic narrative.
500 +Your monograph's narrative is so tragic, it might as well have streamers of fake blood coming off the pages.
IncoherenceDescription
0You expect the incoherence of your monograph to not reduce its value at all.
5You expect the incoherence of your monograph to reduce its value by about 5%.

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Game Instructions: You will always make progress, but failed checks will make your narrative progressively less coherent.

Unlocked with Monograph in Progress exactly 1

Locked with Depth of Historical Study 7

Storylet appears in The Archaeological Institute

Options:

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Incorporate a Revisionist Narrative
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Transcribe your draft with your Coolflame Quill
  •  Spoiler 
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    Unlocked with 1 x Coolflame Quill, Monograph: Incoherence 1

     

    Challenge information

    Narrow, Mithridacy 6 (50% base) || 2 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 3 - high-risk (20%) || 4 - high-risk (30%) || 5 - tough (40%) || 6 - very chancy (50%) || 7 - chancy (60%) || 8 - modest (70%) || 9 - very modest (80%) || 10 - low-risk (90%) || 11 and above - straightforward (100%)

    Success

    Fires of truth

    Failure

    Riddled

    ^

Adding Irony

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Examine Viric-tinged Trinkets
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Describe a Nicatorean Relic
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Examine Silvered Claws
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(Carefully) Examine an Unlawful Device

Adding Caution

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Examine traces of the First City
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Examine Relics of the Second City
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Examine a Relic of the Fourth City
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Read Proscribed Material
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Examine Khaganian Artefacts

Adding Tragedy

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Examine First City Coins
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Examine Relics of the Third City