Search the chamber of socks

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From: Old Downy


A mountain dominates this bare room: a Kilimanjaro of knotted socks – grey, black, plain, patterned. Any one of them could hold your prize. Some of their bulges twitch. Others wriggle.

Unlocked with Ambition: Heart's Desire! exactly 65


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 160

  • 110 - very chancy (41%)
  • 136 - chancy (51%)
  • 163 - modest (61%)
  • 190 - very modest (71%)
  • 216 - low-risk (81%)
  • 243 - straightforward (91%)
  • 267 - straightforward (100%)

Success

An ancient trick

Like the false tomb of an Egyptian King, this is a snare for thieves. There is no treasure here. A simple mind hides a needle in a haystack; a cunning one builds the haystack, then hides the needle somewhere else.

You check the walls. […] a hatch […]

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

  • Owlsmall.png Watchful is increasing…
  • Heartsdesiresmall.png Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy. (Sets Ambition: Heart's Desire! to 70 - Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy)

Redirects to: Old Downy


Failure

Horrors unending

[…] one holds something brown and glistening that makes your skin pucker in blisters. This one holds a bundle of hair and razors. This one holds a knot of fingers, each with a pale band where a ring once sat. This one holds a young sorrow-spider […]

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

  • Owlsmall.png Watchful is increasing…
  • Sidebarwoundssmall.png Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)
  • Sidebarnightmaressmall.png Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
  • Heartsdesiresmall.png Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy. (Sets Ambition: Heart's Desire! to 50 - Retrieve the shard of the King's Heart from Old Downy. You can enter from a card in London)

Redirects to: Old Downy