Restore a palimpsest from the Library at Jericho

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From: The Business of a Correspondent


Half the sigils have been scraped from its pages, but your client is certain it used to contain poetry.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 40-60, Jericho Library


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 180

  • 123 - very chancy (41%)
  • 153 - chancy (51%)
  • 183 - modest (61%)
  • 213 - very modest (71%)
  • 244 - low-risk (81%)
  • 273 - straightforward (91%)
  • 300 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 4 (50% base)

  • 0 - almost impossible (10%)
  • 1 - high-risk (20%)
  • 2 - high-risk (30%)
  • 3 - tough (40%)
  • 4 - very chancy (50%)
  • 5 - chancy (60%)
  • 6 - modest (70%)
  • 7 - very modest (80%)
  • 8 - low-risk (90%)
  • 9 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Negative space

[…] written by someone used to hieroglyphs[…]

The text was poetry: one line per page, seven feet per line. The seventh foot was never set […]

[…] Betrayal, treason, desertion, revolt. A trapped thing turning in its trap. A cur biting out the bar of its cage. _____.

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

Depending on Mysterious Client Attention Odds:


Failure

Smouldering verse

It bore a kind of poetry: one line per page, seven feet per line. The seventh foot was never set down. The reader must reconstruct that sigil in their mind, unwritten, from the cadence of the rest.

[...] Discovering where the ink used to be takes wit [...]
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