Decipher Scathewick's Correspondence sign

ID: 142274

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From: Ambition: Nemesis – Scathewick's Accounts

It appears several times. Here, a line is drawn between it and the name 'Cumberbold'. Later, it is accompanied by another, more common, Correspondence sign: a mutator indicating 'illustrious culpability'.

Game Instructions: The higher your Scholar of the Correspondence quality, the less this will cost.

Unlocked with (110 - 5 × Scholar) x Compromising Document, (110 - 5 × Scholar) x Correspondence Plaque, (2 - Scholar / 15) x Searing Enigma, (4 - Scholar / 10) x Uncanny Incunabulum

Locked with A Clue: a Forgotten Correspondence Sigil 1

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 160

• 110 - very chancy (41%)
• 136 - chancy (51%)
• 163 - modest (61%)
• 190 - very modest (71%)
• 216 - low-risk (81%)
• 243 - straightforward (91%)
• 267 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

The censored sigils

[…] a bombazine-wrapped package. Inside are the four slim volumes of the Gulbahar Redaction. There, among the forbidden sigils, you locate the one Scathewick had crudely attempted. It means 'A thing which is empty, whose purpose is to be filled.'

Description summary:
The symbol is uncommon, and upon speaking to a retired professor he informs you that a list of prohibited sigils is definitely not kept by the Senior Auditor of the Ministry of Public Decency. Later, men from the department look through your research. After they depart, you pull some volumes of research from their hiding place and find the symbol's meaning.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Watchful is increasing…
•  An occurrence! Your 'A Clue: a Forgotten Correspondence Sigil' Quality is now 1!
•  You've lost (110 - 5 × Scholar) x Compromising Document
•  You've lost (110 - 5 × Scholar) x Correspondence Plaque
•  You've lost (2 - Scholar / 15) x Searing Enigma
•  You've lost (4 - Scholar / 10) x Uncanny Incunabulum
•  Suspicion is increasing… (+5 CP)

Failure

Dangerous investigations

It is not a variant of any of the signs you're familiar with. [...] An intense aquamarine fire costs you part of your collection, an amount of skin, and several nights' sleep. Your dreams are full of the shapes you saw among the hissing flames.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've lost 10 x Compromising Document
•  You've lost 10 x Correspondence Plaque
•  You've lost 2 x Uncanny Incunabulum
•  Wounds is increasing… (+10 CP)
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+10 CP)