Editing Reach out and touch it

{{Retired|new=Reach out and touch it (The Waswood)}}
{{Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out}}
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|Icon = mercyhand.png
|From Card/Storylet title = In Their Wake
|Description = Is this skin?
|Success title = The veins of the earth
|Success description = It's warm, blood-warm, a living thing. The tunnel is terribly dark; darkness encroaches the edges of your vision.

[…]

No – there's nothing there. It's just a wall of stone and earth. But there's a lingering scent of ammonia that makes you dizzy; […]
|Success summary = The second paragraph varies with {{IL|Airs of the Dig Site}}. Values of 4 and 21 are assumed.
}}
{{Variant table|Condition=Airs of the Dig Site|Condition alias=Airs|Effect=Second Paragraph|Compact = yes
|Value 1 = ''–public thought nothing of his illness until they were startled yesterday morning by the bulletin announcing a restless night and unsatisfactory symptoms–''
|Value 2 = ''–rapping at the window. a shadow on the roof, a claw, asking to be let in, let me in–''
|Value 3 = ''–bring the laudanum; my head aches; draw the curtains close–''
|Value 4 = ''–the knife, the knife, the knife–''
|Value 5 = ''–why is it so dark in here? Open a curtain, let in some sunlight, open it–''
|Value 6 = ''–stone now, all stone, and gone across the water, but I kept his heart–''
|Value 7 = ''–more wine, more wine, more wine–''
|Value 8 = ''–a gage for every soul; and a soul for every gage–''
|Value 9 = ''–one day you will forgive–''
|Value 10 = ''–cannot bear to live without him, please, whatever the price–''
|Value 11 = ''–the due must be paid–''
|Value 12 = ''–let their names be burnt–''
|Value 13 = ''–all manner of thing – all manner–''
|Value 14 = ''–a serpent, now, and let him sting me if he will–''
|Value 15 = ''–write it on blacker than black; six sigils–''
|Value 16 = ''–let the sapling of their treaty be a vine around your finger–''
|Value 17 = ''–sit with me under the cedar–''
|Value 18 = ''–woe betide the beggar king–''
|Value 19 = ''–hands were so warm, and he was so gentle–''
|Value 20 = ''–there is nothing East–''
|Value 21 = ''–there is nothing West–''
|Value 22 = ''–draw the glass; make it bigger; back to the furnace; heat the disc–''
|Value 23 = ''–through the mirror, let them know, light their way, bring them close–''
|Value 24 = ''–candle and mirror and candle and knife and mirror and knife–''
|Value 25 = ''–into the well she will go, to draw them–''
|Value 26 = ''–no mouth, no mouth, no mouth–''
|Value 27 = ''–powder and ball, load it fast, ram it in, they are nearly over the hill–''
|Value 28 = ''–dead? What do you mean my horse is–''
|Value 29 = ''–nothing left of him now but the meat and soon nothing at all–''
|Value 30 = ''–lips were so blue, vivid, like the silk–''
|Value 31 = ''–what have I done? My love–''
|Value 32 = ''–drape it over your head, confess, you are the first. You are always the first–''
|Value 33 = ''–ten children, ten beautiful children you have given me–''
|Value 34 = ''–born to the red–''
|Value 35 = ''–no good any more. New names, new maps–''
|Value 36 = ''–red and gold. Make it red and gold, not blue, never blue–''
|Value 37 = ''–a glass disc, the colour of the sun in a faded memory-''
|Value 38 = ''–he lost everything–''
|Value 39 = ''–cross this dark sea, away, away, to a shore without mirrors–''
|Value 40 = ''–and on the pedestal these words appear–''
|Value 41 = ''–we will eat of the flesh of a god–''
|Value 42 = ''–traveller returning–''
|Value 43 = ''–a castle of ice for a hungry monarch–''
|Value 44 = ''–slumbering in the roof–''
|Value 45 = ''–a cavern the size of Europe–''
|Value 46 = ''–they have shown us a sky behind the glass–''
|Value 47 = ''–what rough beast, its hour come round at last–''
|Value 48 = ''–slouches towards Marigold to be born–''
|Value 49 = ''–locked are the double doors of the horizon–''
|Value 50 = ''–parents! No laws! No Masters! But also no roof over your head, no money, and often–''
|Value 51 = ''–E SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN. THE S–''
|Value 52 = ''–twist our vanes, slouch our backs, let them see nothing of our shape–''
|Value 53 = ''–and what roses will bloom beneath this sun we have made–''
|Value 54 = ''–for a moment, there–''
|Value 55 = ''–otarootooth–''
|Value 56 = ''–arrows everywhere, bristling like brambles from their bodies–''
|Value 57 = ''–look always to love–''
|Value 58 = ''–no time to prepare London for dissolution–''
|Value 59 = ''–a census? Now, of all times–''
|Value 60 = ''–hurtling forever towards the earth–''
|Value 61 = ''–the heart they do not have–''
|Value 62 = ''–extend their Friendship and Aid to London in this time of upheaval–''
|Value 63 = ''–proposed revisions to the Book of Acts, volume XVI–''
|Value 64 = ''–the number? What is the–''
|Value 65 = ''–was forcibly removed from the Chamber after an altercation over the budget–''
|Value 66 = ''–close, immortality is cheap, and the screaming–''
|Value 67 = ''–there is nothing North–''
|Value 68 = ''–there is nothing South–''
|Value 69 = ''–SO SHALL HE NEVER DIE–''
|Value 70 = ''–RECORD YOUR NAME AND CRIME–''
|Value 71 = ''–where the air is velvet–''
|Value 72 = ''–set aside your sword–''
|Value 73 = ''–forbid remembrance–''
|Value 74 = ''–Indra, Perun, Thor, Xolotl–''
|Value 75 = ''–five? Were we not six – have we forgotten–''
|Value 76 = ''–WHERE THERE IS VERY LITTLE SCREAMING–''
|Value 77 = ''–(I was never really here.)–''
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*{{Gain|Emetic Revelation|1 x}}
*{{Airs|Airs of the Dig Site|hidden=yes|cap = 77}}

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