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From: Ambition: Nemesis – Forgotten Quarter 3


A child's skeleton lies near the door in a tumble of bones, as if someone had kicked it carelessly aside on entering. There are rows of empty wooden shelves, traces of candlewax, a writing-desk spattered with ink: but no-one's been here in a while.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 49

  • 34 - very chancy (41%)
  • 42 - chancy (51%)
  • 50 - modest (61%)
  • 58 - very modest (71%)
  • 67 - low-risk (82%)
  • 75 - straightforward (91%)
  • 82 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A find...

Among the litter of Fourth City relics[…] you unearth a single jar that might once have contained honey. A label reads: 'O.T.T. Jun. MDCCCLXXXIV'. In order to fit […] the writer has had to crab their writing up small and curl it round the edge […]

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Failure

Nothing of import

A single broken amulet that you might be able to sell. Rat-corpses. Phosphorescent slugs. Graffiti in languages unspoken by any living scholar. No trace of a clue.