Deduce obscure conclusions

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From: Partial Historiography


The ledgers of the Great Game are few in number; its practitioners too cautious or too dead to commit much to writing. But what is left behind may prove instructive.

Unlocked with Lead: Partial Historiography 420-423

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Narrow, A Player of Chess 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

Antique insights

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

Lead: HistoriographyDescription
421Volumes bound in what you hope is leather speak of a queen, a counting house and a pie. The reference is obvious, its implications obscure. Further research is required.
422Further study reveals a banquet […] in Prague […] Discreet emissaries sent below, chasing rumours of Prester John […] As a legend it has its uses: as the known edges of the world expand, the Prester can be moved to somewhere it is less obvious that he is not.
423A journal in violant ink that is only revealed […] next to a book of decidedly risque poetry suggests much: music in Vienna is said to have a correspondence with Hell. Certain composers are attuned to it, though do not recognise its implications.
424The surviving journals of a Genoese scholar are suggestive: if Hell's influence can extend beyond its borders while devils remain below the Surface, another agency must be implicated. Is there a principle that unites Hell with another – or others?

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Failure

The proverbial incorrect tree

The first printed books were known as 'Incunabula'. Surely not a coincidence.