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|Success summary = The description varies based on your level of {{IL|Lead: Partial Historiography}}. | |Success summary = The description varies based on your level of {{IL|Lead: Partial Historiography}}. | ||
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| − | |Value 620 = | + | |Value 620 = According to an acid-stained codex, a ship was once raised in Parabola that could sail the Writhing River with ease. By difficult glasswork, it was brought into the Neath, to attempt the same on Adam's Way. It was said to have made the journey between Apis Meet and Caution, but sank at the city beyond, whose name is Rimer. It is also said that the Rimers sunk the ship, from which to make an ark. |
| − | |Value 621 = The Replete comb the banks of Adam's Way | + | |Value 621 = The Replete comb the banks of Adam's Way for suitable repast. They carve the stories they hear from the survivors (whom they feast as kings) onto knives and suits of banded armour. They speak of other kingdoms below the red, where the living wood holds court. |
| − | |Value 622 = There is a kingdom of the Animescent, who bathe daily in the waters. | + | |Value 622 = There is a kingdom of the Animescent, who bathe daily in the waters. Their wounds are ignited, burn, and slough off, leaving the skin fresh, to burn anew. This account is written by a notorious liar, however, who faked his own death by animescence in order to wed a Conflagrati queen. She later drowned him for his troubles. |
| − | |Value 623 = It is said | + | |Value 623 = It is said, though rarely, that if the College of Mortality ever came in strength, they could command Adam's Way to part. Together they would descend the silty banks and dredge the living and the dead from the russet deep, for mercy, or for a final judgement. |
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|Failure title = What remains when the blood has washed the rest away | |Failure title = What remains when the blood has washed the rest away | ||
| − | |Failure description = The river has claimed so many over the years, as ships came apart faster than the zailors could flee, as coracles developed emnities and triremes love affairs. | + | |Failure description = The river has claimed so many over the years, as ships came apart faster than the zailors could flee, as coracles developed emnities and triremes love affairs. What can flesh and bone do when stone and wood and riverbank collide? You receive a collection of skulls, dredged from the riverbank. Each speaks, but says only one word: red. |
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*{{Loss|Librarian's Progress|8 x}} | *{{Loss|Librarian's Progress|8 x}} | ||
