Examine this section, then move on
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From: A Chained Volume (First time) or A Chained Volume (Repeated)
Why would a book be kept like this, under lock and key?
Game Instructions: You will always make progress. But you might learn something, too.
Challenge information
Narrow, 
Chthonosophy 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%)
Each point of 
Fragmentary Ontology adds 1 point of Chthonosophy.
Success
A means of control
[..] there, on the floor around the lectern: a line carved out with a chisel. A demarcated boundary. [...] And then there's another section – a quarantine of sorts – that has been scattered all across the library in little enclaves.
You've gained 5 x Perusing the Stacks
You've gained 10 x Tantalising Possibility
Failure
A mystery
The books arrayed on the shelves around the dais seem indistinct from the rest of the library; they offer no clue as to why one of their number is regarded as dangerous enough to lock up.
- You've gained 5 x Perusing the Stacks
