Examine Relics of the Second City

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Knowledge of the Second City isn't forbidden, as such, but the Masters' evident distaste for it gives the whole subject a frisson of danger.

Game Instructions: This will make your monograph more Cautionary and less Tragic.

Unlocked with 80 x Relics of the Second City


Challenge information

Narrow, Mithridacy 7 (50% base)

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

Success

Smooth sailing

Description summary:
The success description varies by Object of Historical Study.

ObjectDescription
100It is clear, then, that the Second City had contact with Parabola. One must question, then, the role of the Fingerkings' interference in fateful decisions later taken by her rulers.
110 - 130, 210 - 240, 310, 320, 400, 500Information about the Second City is suppressed, even more so than […] other Fallen Cities. Benthic scholars date artefacts of the City to over three thousand years ago, but they stop short of engaging in Egyptology – […] which the Masters despise.
300Evidence abounds for contact between the Second City and the Elder Continent, suggesting that the Presbyterate already existed in some recognizable form over three thousand years ago.

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Failure

A gap

It's so, so hard to connect the dots. The Second City was erased from the Neath almost utterly. And though there are sources, and you know of them, you know better than to ask directly.