Study ancient bestiaries

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From: Unanticipated Ecologies


What might their misrepresented forms tell us of what might have been?

Unlocked with Lead: Ecology 501-503

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 177

  • 121 - very chancy (41%)
  • 151 - chancy (51%)
  • 180 - modest (61%)
  • 210 - very modest (71%)
  • 239 - low-risk (81%)
  • 269 - straightforward (91%)
  • 295 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Sifting

Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of Lead: Ecology.

Lead: EcologyDescription
501Texts on the Broken Men of the Third City, who apparently took to zee in a raft seeking Xibalba, reveal curious psychosomatic properties in the eye of the beholder.
502In a text by a Fourth City monk named Nasturtium, you find a series of prophecies that suggest one's anatomy can also be one's destiny. He draws fascinating parallels between the ascension of the Devils and the descent of the Rubbery Men.
503A Khan of Meat has compiled an astonishing (and much-spattered) bestiary, fragments of which can occasionally be found in the stacks. The existence of such creatures seems improbable, but there they are. Complete with tasting notes.

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Failure

Damnable forgery

It takes perhaps too much time to discern that this is a diary from the Apicius Club and not a bestiary. In your defence, they do insist on writing in Latin, and the spatters add an ageing effect.