Speak to Mr Fires about the symbol it read

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From: Hillchanger Tower, Transported


It was able to read that symbol. What did it mean? Can Fires teach you?

Game Instructions: Pursuing the Discordance may be damaging. You can only learn a little here from Mr Fires.

Locked with Distance from Home 5


Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 220

  • 151 - very chancy (41%)
  • 187 - chancy (51%)
  • 224 - modest (61%)
  • 261 - very modest (71%)
  • 297 - low-risk (81%)
  • 334 - straightforward (91%)
  • 367 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Steward of the Discordance 1 (50% base)

  • 1 - very chancy (50%)
  • 2 - chancy (60%)
  • 3 - modest (70%)
  • 4 - very modest (80%)
  • 5 - low-risk (90%)
  • 6 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Ignorance as an art

"Discordance […] The cold language, the language of stars that have died and laws that have passed away. […] There was a woman. […]"

You tell Fires it was Furnace Ancona […]

[…] Even the idea of the Tracklayers' Union doesn't seem to be in its lexicon.

Description summary:
All memory of who Furnace Ancona is seems to have been wiped from Mr Fires' head. Any attempt to refresh its memory of her existence is fruitless.

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Failure

It tells you

"Discordance," hisses Mr Fires. "The cold language, the language of stars that have died and laws that have passed away." And it goes on like that, about dead light and corrupted law and the space between the stars polluted.