Examine a Relic of the Fourth City

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Everyone and their Aunt from the Surface has gone digging in the Forgotten Quarter. But Moulin is a new source of these artefacts.

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

Unlocked with 250 x Relics of the Fourth 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
100 - 120, 210 - 240, 300, 500The Fourth City, and its end, cast a long shadow. Even if unconsciously, every Londoner knows the fate that awaits the Fifth City […] Maybe that's why they pay so dearly for every bottle of airag, why they watch so intensely for every Khaganian ship […]
130The Fourth City trapped Many-Fingered Kings behind mirrors and tortured them for information: the rulers of the Is-Not […] know all […] about the Is. But as the Khaganians today say, 'there is no greater curse than knowledge you cannot verify.'
310It is undeniable that the Many-Fingered Kings drove the Fourth City to war with Hell. Was it an attempt to free themselves? Pure malice directed at the City, or at Hell itself? And that begs the question: What drove London to war?
320One of the great questions in Fourth City history is whether the departure of the Great Khan led to the City's decline, or whether the City's decline provoked the departure of the Great Khan. Khaganian sources will claim one or the other […]
400It is claimed that Nicator once rode into the Fourth City on a seventy-seven-legged horse made of sapphires, which so impressed the Khan that he was made Custodian of the Royal Stables.

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Failure

Novelty!

Just because you have new evidence doesn't mean you have new things to say. Which isn't to say that such things can't quite simply be manufactured.