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A player-created Guide is available for this content: The High Sancta (Guide)

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From: Lost in the Black

Up, higher into the High Sancta. Disregard your vision altogether. Focus on the sounds; the smells; the textures beneath your fingertips.

Unlocked with Towards a Violant Sky 1-11

Locked with Firmament exactly 295

Challenge information

Broad, Counterlight 60

• 41 - very chancy (41%)
• 51 - chancy (51%)
• 61 - modest (61%)
• 71 - very modest (71%)
• 81 - low-risk (81%)
• 91 - straightforward (91%)
• 100 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Up

Your breath is loud and close. The blindfold chafes against your skin, the knot tight at the back of your head. […]

One step. Two. Which way is forwards? It doesn't matter. The halls of Zenith swallow you once more.

Description summary:
The end of the first paragraph changes based on Counterlight Source.

Source	Effect
1	An anticandle does not gutter, and does not die. In that lack, violant trickles inwards.
2	You lose hold on a memory of forgetfulness. In that lapse, violant trickles inwards.
3	A filament gutters and dies. In that failure, violant trickles inwards.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  You've lost 1 x Anticandle (if Counterlight Source is exactly 1)
•  You've lost 5 Memory of Light (if Counterlight Source is exactly 2)
•  You've lost 25 x Khaganian Lightbulb (if Counterlight Source is exactly 3)
•  Your footsteps echo through Zenith's ruined halls. Every path slopes upward. (Raises Towards a Violant Sky by 1)
•  Your eyes adjust to the dark. Your mind shrinks from the violant. Unseeing, here, is sweet relief. (Sets Blindfolded, For Your Own Good to 1)
•  [The Vulgate's Wings change…] (random)

With Towards a Violant Sky 3-9:

•  A little of your shield against the violant melts away. (Lowers Counterlight by 5)

With Towards a Violant Sky 10-12:

•  A little of your shield against the violant melts away. (Lowers Counterlight by 1)

Failure

Discovered

Even through your blindfold, the violant seeps in […] a web of light and links, each diamond node grasping for the others.

[…] etched into your eyelids, burrowing into the soft meat of your brain.

Your heart pounds. […]

You are back in Zenith's lower reaches. […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  You've lost 1 x Anticandle (if Counterlight Source is exactly 1)
•  You've lost 5 Memory of Light (if Counterlight Source is exactly 2)
•  You've lost 25 x Khaganian Lightbulb (if Counterlight Source is exactly 3)
•  You are fully exposed to the violant tides. (Removes Counterlight)
•  For better or worse, you can see once more. (Removes Blindfolded, For Your Own Good)
•  Out of the spire; out of Zenith's High Sancta. (Removes Towards a Violant Sky)
•  The sound of wings, and the feeling of wind upon your face. (Removes The Vulgate's Wings)
•  An occurrence! Your 'Wings of Change' Quality is now 1!
•  New eyes blossom within, to contain all that you have seen. (Sets Violant Sights to 1)
•  You no longer have any of this: Counterlight Source (hidden)

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