Mr Pages' Educational Picture Postcards and Assorted Souvenir Stationery

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From: The Bazaar's Emporium of Educational Curiosities


Through the green door, down four flights of steps, up five flights of steps, round the corner and ring the brass bell. If you're lucky, an urchin will open the door to Mr. Pages' stationery concession.


Challenge information

A matter of luck: A long shot...but you might win (success chance: 10%)

Success

Lithographs, etchings, monotypes, mezzotints

[…] Those boxes look interesting.

You secrete one in your sleeve. When you get home, you immerse it in water. As the glue melts, the layers of paper separate out and reveal their secrets. All you need to do now is peg them out to dry.

Description summary:
This is the largest stock of postcards and stationery outside the Bazaar, all made by Mr. Pages. You steal a découpage box, and pick it apart by soaking it in water.

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Rare Success

Lithographs, etchings, monotypes, mezzotints

[…]

It's only later, when you inspect your hoard of new secrets, that you find a scrap of rose-coloured paper with the tiniest of inscriptions. 'IT IS NORTH UNDER GRANITE' it says on one side. The single word 'EATEN' is on the other.

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Failure

Lithographs, etchings, monotypes, mezzotints

A clever novelty, postcards[…]Mr Pages produces decorative postcards, educational postcards, even a few slightly risque postcards[…]Its collectible daguerreotypes and calotypes show many of the inhabitants of the Labyrinth in extraordinary detail.[…]

Description summary:
Marbled papers, scented papers, tinted inks, découpage… Découpage? But, today, no secrets.

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