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From: Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 7


It's a weird and rather ugly document. Bagley seems to have invented his own musical notation system. He also appears to have been less than fastidious, even before he went topsy. Are those soup stains?


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 70

  • 48 - very chancy (41%)
  • 60 - chancy (51%)
  • 72 - modest (61%)
  • 83 - very modest (71%)
  • 95 - low-risk (81%)
  • 107 - straightforward (91%)
  • 117 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A discovery!

You can't imagine how it would actually sound[…]. But here, between two pages stuck together by what might be soup... a daguerreotype!

[…] the curator[…] is entirely occupied […]. You slip the daguerreotype into your pocket for later examination.

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Failure

Neither heads nor tails

You can't imagine how this would sound, and the notes […] are the work of a man with more energy than sanity. They deteriorate even more towards the end, […] half-legible ravings about echoes, stars and couriers. […] Useless and soup-stained.

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