Safely dispose of a cold word

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From: The Business of a Correspondent


A Reader in the Correspondence saw a sigil she should not have seen. The damage lingers in the Lowest Reading Room. Some inversion of the Treachery of Shapes, they think.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 50-70, Steward of the Discordance


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 140

  • 96 - very chancy (41%)
  • 119 - chancy (51%)
  • 143 - modest (61%)
  • 166 - very modest (71%)
  • 189 - low-risk (81%)
  • 213 - straightforward (91%)
  • 234 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 10 (50% base)

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

Success

Magnetism of Flesh

[…]

Repairing the Librarian is a professional triumph. Repairing the Lowest Reading Room – eyes closed so you don't read the writing on the wall, […] with two Impossible Theorems committed to memory? That is a red miracle.

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Failure

A Bind

Only an Artisan of the Red Science could repair the damage. The Discordant word is a false friend – uncommonly easy for someone conversant with the Red Science to read. To misconstrue. And it is very nearly impossible not to wonder–

[...]
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