Know the city at its roots

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From: Reach Out to the Mind of London


There are archives; there are histories true and false.

Unlocked with The Mind's Ascent exactly 3, Chthonosophy


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%)

Success

Drink from the river Walbrook

The first shapes of the city are there, under earth and later building. A modest forum, a city wall, a temple of Isis; a Roman imperial settlement […] It had a currency before it had a mayor or a church. It hanged its counterfeiters and coin-clippers. […]

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Failure

Distractions

Competing falsehoods cover everything […]. Brave, foolish Boudica. Apocryphal stories about King Alfred and King Arthur. Old Welsh accounts of Cair Lundein. […] All later arguments, later factions, casting a present struggle backward into history […]

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