Postulate Unexpected Connections

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From: Ambiguous Cartography


What if that which is was not always what it was?

Unlocked with Lead: Cartography 530-533

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 177

  • 121 - very chancy (41%)
  • 151 - chancy (51%)
  • 180 - modest (61%)
  • 210 - very modest (71%)
  • 239 - low-risk (81%)
  • 269 - straightforward (91%)
  • 295 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Compass rosa

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

Lead: CartographyDescription
530[…]violant[…] is a reagent for creative thinking. […]connection between the cult of the Motherlings and the Spider-Senate? […]the courts of Parabola[…] influenced by the Second City's sojourn? […]so many roses grow in such disparate locations? […]you publish in violant[…]
531In[…] the Waswood, a thousand histories flow. Trace them to their their course, […]only tributaries. […] To chart the divergence is[…] to compose your thoughts like a serpent, coiled and with its tail in its mouth. And on that tail, a second hissing head...
532You summon assistants from Whither, from Codex, and of course, one who will be coming from Irem. Together they form three parts of a question, of a place, a cause, and one day there will be an effect. To trace the relationship of these three islands[…]
533With a Law-Furnace, history is what one makes of it. So you acquire a small Law-Furnace[…]you fill in the blanks of Neathy history – what came before Hell arrived, where did the Great Khan go[…]? Who was the First Sacristan and where dwells it now[…]

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Failure

Below, not Above

The Treachery of Maps is aptly named: the zee is mutable in the Neath. So too the hinterlands of Hell[…]London, and the cities before her,[…] altered by Chiroptean whim? Now if you just extend that theory upwards – But your telescope is engulfed in flames[…]

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