Detangle inflammatory precedents

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ID: 272176

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From: The Machinery of Law

A knot of conflicting judiciary decisions threatens to overheat the semantic coils.

Unlocked with Ceteris Paribus 0-50

Locked with Void Ab Initio 8

Challenge information

Narrow, Chthonosophy 4 (50% base)

• 0 - almost impossible (10%)
• 1 - high-risk (20%)
• 2 - high-risk (30%)
• 3 - tough (40%)
• 4 - very chancy (50%)
• 5 - chancy (60%)
• 6 - modest (70%)
• 7 - very modest (80%)
• 8 - low-risk (90%)
• 9 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

The difficulty is equal to the average of your base Glasswork, Artisan of the Red Science, Mithridacy, and Chthonosophy (rounded down), and is also increased by 1 for every two levels of Void Ab Initio.

Success

Per incuriam

The knot is not composed of the paper, but the rulings that the papers represent, each so bound up in the others that they threaten simultaneous combustion. [...] you make mockery of law, and the furnace's choking settles into a throaty chuckle.

•  Stability through Combustion is now (new value). (Raises Stability through Combustion by 1?)
•  You've gained 580 x Actus Reus
•  Time passes. You recognise some of these seconds. (Raises Pro Tempore by 1)
• With increasing probability (unknown formula) as Pro Tempore increases:
  •  You are closer to becoming undone. (Increases Void Ab Initio by 2 CP)
• Everything seems to have changed. Perhaps one day it will stop. [Ceteris Paribus change…] (random)
• Categories shift. Ontologies fidget on restless wings. [Inter Alia change…] (random)

Failure

Ipsissima verba

[...] law-furnaces are not beholden to stare decisis [...] otherwise [...] Princes would still hold sway. [...] snarl of precedent [...] too hot for you to untangle: [...] fire spreads the edict of their communion, [...] only way to prevent legal metastasis is to quench the furnace entirely.

•  You've gained 580 x Actus Reus
•  You've gained 1 x Pro Tempore
•  Void Ab Initio is increasing… (+? CP)
• Everything seems to have changed. Perhaps one day it will stop. [Ceteris Paribus change…] (random)
• Categories shift. Ontologies fidget on restless wings. [Inter Alia change…] (random)