Perform a study of the vintages of the Presbyterate

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From: Partial Historiography


Grown in the Mountain's light, what might they reveal?

Unlocked with Lead: Partial Historiography 630-633

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 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

Grapes bursting on stony ground

Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of Lead: Partial Historiography.

Lead: HistoriographyDescription
630An Arbor Rose tastes as smooth as scarlet silk, but its true effect is not felt until you sleep. You dream of the hazy hinterlands between the two Arbors, and feel the Roseate Queen outstretch her hand, her foreign policy […] as sharp as a thorn.
631This dusty bottle […] distilled by Nicator himself, when he ruled the hollow nation of Verdigris. Or […] his nine day reign upon the Hidden Throne […] Or perhaps […] when he reigned as Presbyter […] the wine, […] like all revealed mysteries, proves disappointing.
632A bottle of Huz mead, which is cloudy as tears and tastes of regret. On your tongue, you feel the drone of workers, mourning for their lost Queen, vanquished or gone or ruling but hidden. There is a wound on her breast. It will never heal.
633[…] Nidah, the vintner said, and his credentials are as sure as his library […] filched from the Prester's own table […] bottled in a glazier's so grand that […] the glazier works beneath a cathedral dome. In the end, you choose not to drink it. Perhaps one day […]

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Failure

Ruin!

Gris and dust, foul and vitriolic. You liberally disburse, over your papers, your books, your research, all. Even wine, it seems, can be too full of life.