Repair destroyed texts

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From: Liminal Studies


Hell's Law Furnaces work to destroy much of its prior literature. But there are some survivals, though much ruined.

Unlocked with Lead: Liminality 430-433

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 11 (50% base)

  • 7 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 8 - high-risk (20%)
  • 9 - high-risk (30%)
  • 10 - tough (40%)
  • 11 - very chancy (50%)
  • 12 - chancy (60%)
  • 13 - modest (70%)
  • 14 - very modest (80%)
  • 15 - low-risk (90%)
  • 16 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Stitch and inkwork

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

Lead: LiminalityDescription
431Traced in violant ink, a line emerges in the scoured text. 'Once these were fiedfdoms, but what is a kingdom without a throne? Princes become flies...'
432A fragment survives in a ragged piece of paper […] 'I walked from the city they called the Fourth and beheld the verdure of a forest more emerald than Paradise. The gardens of Hell, they said and they told me with what they were watered—'
433A single colophon from a false copy of the Legenda Cosmogone. 'For all the saints who fell like bolts from the sky.'
434A chance survival in the battered, burnt-out hollow of a library catalogue, detailing a collection long broken. 'The false-Garden in which shame was nurtured and littered with like detritus. Only partially of Hell's making.'

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  • Vialgreensmall.png You've gained 41 x Librarian's Progress
  • Mirror4small.png You have a lead in the Liminal Studies section of the library. (Increases Lead: Liminality by 1)
  • Skullmothsmall.png You have a lead in the Partial Historiography section of your library. (Sets Lead: Partial Historiography to 430, if below 401)
  • Rubberskullsmall.png You have a lead in the Unanticipated Ecologies section of your library. (Sets Lead: Ecology to 430, if below 401)


Failure

A good attempt

[…] inks, pigments and shimmering powders, as well as a box of violant paint. Unfortunately, though your speculative technique proves perfect in function, it lacks in form. […] the violant acts only to recover […] a collation of grocery lists.

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  • Sidebarwoundssmall.png Wounds is increasing… (+5 CP)