Swift archaeology

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From: Digging in the City


It's not obvious where the relics might be and there is pressure from the other amateur archaeologists.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 33

  • 23 - very chancy (41%)
  • 29 - chancy (52%)
  • 34 - modest (61%)
  • 40 - very modest (72%)
  • 45 - low-risk (81%)
  • 51 - straightforward (92%)
  • 55 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A find!

Your investigations lead you to a venerable […] stone stable, […] you unearth a trove of relics from the Fourth City. Wherever the city was […], it was definitely somewhere closer to Samarkand than Rome. Fascinating, and reasonably profitable.

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Rare Success

Bottles and dust

Ah, you're too late. There's fresh shovel-work here in this tangle of crumbling low walls. Hang on a moment. Someone has been burying, not excavating. What have they hidden here? Bottles?


Failure

A score of archaeologists

[…] You track down the find […], but […] two respectable academics are having a screaming match that borders on fisticuffs, and a number of handlers of antiquities are hanging about hopefully with sacks. You leave the tawdry scene […].

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