Read the stone

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From: Discordant


Ignore Furnace and her advice. What does she know?


Challenge information

Broad, A Scholar of the Correspondence 15

  • 11 - very chancy (44%)
  • 13 - chancy (52%)
  • 16 - modest (64%)
  • 18 - very modest (72%)
  • 21 - low-risk (84%)
  • 23 - straightforward (92%)
  • 25 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Walk on over

[…] Even from many paces away, it is legible. […]

And then you're staggering backward, dazed, appalled, because the mud has turned to ice around your feet, and Furnace Ancona has just detonated a Hillmover […]

Description summary:
You ignored Furnace and read the stone's inscription anyway. You partially succeed, gleaning some cryptic lore about ancient times before Ancona and her tracklayers blew up the stone.

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

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Failure

Walk on over

[…] sigils are not precisely Correspondence […]

You want to understand […]

[…] you're staggering backward […] Ancona has just detonated a Hillmover […]

[…] you would have known what was written there. And then we really would have been in trouble."

Description summary:
Against Furnace's warning, you walk to try to read the stone's inscriptions anyway. You fail, and Furnace and her colleagues managed to blow up the stone before you fail any further.

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

Redirects to: The Ride Home