Persuade the Tower to move, using Correspondence and cajolery
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From: Hillchanger Tower, Transported
Game Instructions: Even failing at this will do you some good, though it may cause Nightmares.
Unlocked with Distance from Home
Challenge information
Broad, A Scholar of the Correspondence 10
- 7 - very chancy (42%)
- 9 - chancy (54%)
- 11 - modest (66%)
- 12 - very modest (72%)
- 14 - low-risk (84%)
- 16 - straightforward (96%)
- 17 - straightforward (100%)
Success
A homeward dance
[varies]
But you find an undamaged page […] and draw in Correspondence an idea of timely cyclical return to one's home. This page you wrap around a pillar; and wait.
The Tower does understand enough that it detaches itself from where it was. […]Description summary:
The first and last paragraphs vary:
Distance from Home | First paragraph |
---|---|
1+ | Though it is improving, the Tower still seems a bit sluggish to respond. Or perhaps it merely has slowed perceptions. Who knows the thoughts of stone? |
0 | You're home now. |
Distance from Home | Last paragraph |
---|---|
4 | The Tower is now far east of its original position, almost over London. |
3 | The Tower is... sideways. Somewhere at the very edge of the Neath, stuck in a cave wall. What was the east wall is now your floor. |
2 | The Tower has rematerialised somewhere in the Unterzee. It has had the courtesy to put itself on an island rather than on the zee floor, for which you must be grateful. But there's no hope of going anywhere outside. |
1 | The Tower is currently right way up and on a peak with a broad view of London. You might almost climb down and walk, except that it looks like you're on a spire of rock, and would have a hard time making your own way. |
0 | The Tower is in Ealing Gardens now, on its familiar spot, just as if it hadn't gone anywhere at all. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Distance from Home is dropping… (-5 CP)
Failure
Encouragements whispered in multiple languages
[varies]
But you find an undamaged page […] and draw in Correspondence an idea of timely cyclical return to one's home. This page you wrap around a pillar; and wait.
[…] it shifts underfoot as though it were about to break from the roof […]Description summary:
The first and last paragraphs vary:
Distance from Home | First paragraph |
---|---|
1+ | Though it is improving, the Tower still seems a bit sluggish to respond. Or perhaps it merely has slowed perceptions. Who knows the thoughts of stone? |
0 | You're home now. |
Distance from Home | Last paragraph |
---|---|
4 | The Tower is now far east of its original position, almost over London. |
3 | The Tower is... sideways. Somewhere at the very edge of the Neath, stuck in a cave wall. What was the east wall is now your floor. |
2 | The Tower has rematerialised somewhere in the Unterzee. It has had the courtesy to put itself on an island rather than on the zee floor, for which you must be grateful. But there's no hope of going anywhere outside. |
1 | The Tower is currently right way up and on a peak with a broad view of London. You might almost climb down and walk, except that it looks like you're on a spire of rock, and would have a hard time making your own way. |
0 | The Tower is in Ealing Gardens now, on its familiar spot, just as if it hadn't gone anywhere at all. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Distance from Home is dropping… (-3-4 CP?)
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)