Stop and examine the ancient volumes
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From: A Stone Gallery
Are they actually so ancient that they have simply fossilised?
Challenge information
Narrow, 
Chthonosophy 7 (50% base)
- 3 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 4 - high-risk (20%)
- 5 - high-risk (30%)
- 6 - tough (40%)
- 7 - very chancy (50%)
- 8 - chancy (60%)
- 9 - modest (70%)
- 10 - very modest (80%)
- 11 - low-risk (90%)
- 12 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Inscriptions
You can still read the words embossed on the cover – some of the petrified books are preserved so perfectly that even the texture of leather can still be felt […] Cracking one open is out of the question – you'd need a team […] and a big chisel, probably. […]
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You've gained 1-2 x Fragmentary Ontology
Failure
Confusion
The volumes are perfectly preserved on the outside – their embossed titles [...] like words carved in a gravestone. But the pages are fused into rocky layers like a chunk of gypsum. You can't glean anything of value from the information you can see.
You've gained 1 x Perusing the Stacks (if 
In Search of Lost Time is exactly 1)
You've gained 1 x Finding the Centre (if In Search of Lost Time is exactly 2)
Noises in the Library is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
