Pick through the drawers

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From: A Librarian's Office

What might you find?

Challenge information

A matter of luck: How can you fail? (success chance: 90%)

Success

[see below]

Description summary:
The title and description varies based on your Opening a Drawer in the Library.

Drawer	Title	Description
1	A key!	Steel, with a complicated head and an oversized bow that seems intended for a larger hand than yours.
2	A scrap of paper	Someone has left a fragmentary map of the surrounding stacks. The handwriting is too small and delicate to belong to one of the librarians. Is someone else wandering this place, besides you?
3	Intake forms?	Or something to that effect. Each one is a […] complex sigil of the Correspondence, swimming in radicals […] and diacritics; they seem to describe new additions to the Library; the top one reads something like 'A PIECE RENDERED ILLEGAL BY A KING IN ZUGZWANG.'

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•  A heavy, oaken drawer; it takes some force to pull open. (Sets Opening a Drawer in the Library to 1-3)
•  You've gained 40 x Tantalising Possibility

With Opening a Drawer in the Library exactly 1:

•  You've gained 1 x Library Key

With Opening a Drawer in the Library exactly 2:

•  You've gained 1 x Route Traced through the Library

With Opening a Drawer in the Library exactly 3:

•  You've gained 1 x Fragmentary Ontology

Failure

[see below]

Description summary:
The title and description varies based on your Opening a Drawer in the Library.

Drawer	Title	Description
4	Bones?	Inside the drawer is a scattered pile of fish bones and the faint smell of fatty fish. The remains of someone's meal?
5	Lunch?	Tinned eel. Someone's cache? Surely the librarians don't eat.

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•  A heavy, oaken drawer; it takes some force to pull open. (Sets Opening a Drawer in the Library to 4-5)

With Opening a Drawer in the Library exactly 4:

•  You've gained 2-10 x Fin Bones, Collected

With Opening a Drawer in the Library exactly 5:

•  You've gained 2-10 x Deep-zee Catch