Observe the comings and goings of the gilled lamp-cats
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From: Explore Port Cecil
Description summary:
The description varies depending on whether you have Discovered: the Lowest Floors of the Magistracy.
Discovered | Description |
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0 | Port Cecil is crawling with the things – blank-eyed cats with gills and slick black fur, lit in queasy green by lures that bob from their heads. What are they after? |
1 | You know them to be the emissaries of the Light-in-Exile, that distant light that makes friends of outcasts. Port Cecil is crawling with them. What are they after? |
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Challenge information
- 82 - very chancy (41%)
- 102 - chancy (51%)
- 122 - modest (61%)
- 142 - very modest (71%)
- 162 - low-risk (81%)
- 182 - straightforward (91%)
- 200 - straightforward (100%)
Success
A curious hunger
Description summary:
The description varies depending on whether you have Discovered: the Lowest Floors of the Magistracy.
Discovered | Description |
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0 | [...]
They twine around lambent outcroppings of coral, [...] licking them with rough little tongues [...] Where the lamp-cats focus their efforts, the coral slumps [...] The shoal of lamp-cats is consuming the treasured scintillack, as a London mog might a bowl of cream. |
1 | The lamp-cats […] communicate with their lures […]
You are held in the borrowed light of the lamp-cat […] You see […] through the cats' […] senses […] […] What lost belonging, what distant home […] might this fading mind harbour? They do not know. They will find out. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Shadowy is increasing…
- You've gained 10 x Silvered Cat's Claw
- You've gained 50 x Cryptic Clue
Failure
Unappetising
A curious lamp-cat turns its attention to some […] coral already mined from the reef. Purple tongue rasps over silver fragments […] Its back arches, […] and claws flex in displeasure […]
[…] Is some ineffable quality of the coral destroyed by the miners' picks?[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Shadowy is increasing…
- Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained 100 x Shard of Glim