Plunge your (growth) into appropriate darkness

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From: Vertiginous Horticulture

There are ways of making a rooftop garden darker. By, for instance, stealing laundry to use as a shroud.

Description summary:
The title varies with Rooftop Growth.

Rooftop Growth:	Effect
3: Prize-Winning Peppercaps	peppercaps
7: Tomorrowspore Ortcaps	ortcaps

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

Unlocked with Rooftop Growth, Light Preference: Darkness, Nurturing a Rooftop Growth 1-150, The Airs of London 0-25

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 85

• 59 - very chancy (41%)
• 73 - chancy (51%)
• 87 - modest (61%)
• 101 - very modest (71%)
• 115 - low-risk (81%)
• 129 - straightforward (91%)
• 142 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of Rooftop Growth, Difficulty: increases the base difficulty by 5 points.

Success

The lawless dark

[...] Hung on a line between opposite houses, you find [Thing] and conceal your fungus (and yourself) beneath. It's dark. The noises of the world outside are muffled. Your heartbeat is loud. Is this working? The [Growth] seem a little taller, maybe.

Description summary:
The beginning of the description varies with Rooftop Growth. The middle varies with The Airs of London.

Growth	Description
3: Prize-Winning Peppercaps	You can tell when the environment is dark enough by the spicy spores that these Peppercaps propogate in optimal conditions.
7: Tomorrowspore Ortcaps	Whenever it gets too bright, your Ortcaps flinch like sleeper thrust into a nightmare.

Airs	Thing
1 - 25	a gingham tablecloth
26 - 50	an oversized dressing gown, still scattered with the crumbs of breakfast,
51 - 75	a spectacular and impressive pair of bloomers
76 - 100	an abominably stained bedsheet

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained (14 + Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)

Alternative Success

The lawless dark

[...]

Description summary:
The description is the same as the regular success, with an additional sentence at the end based on Colour at the Chessboard.

Colour at the Chessboard	Text
Red, None	You feel taller, too – as if the laws that bind you lie a little looser.
Black	You feel taller, too – more powerful in the lightless void. It is right.
White	For as much good as it foes your plant, the darkness is a grim reminder of the necessity of light.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

Wiki note: Occurs 50% of the time.

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained (18 + Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)

Failure

Unshrouded

[...] You wander the tiles, looking for a suitably dark place in which you might repot your fungus. But all you find are rival rooftop horticulturalists, unwilling to share their secrets, and urchins, who, of course, laugh and pelt you with stones. [...]

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've lost (1 - Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth