Take advantage of the vantage point

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From: A Dead End?


Most of the library traps you in a confining maze of corridors. Up here, you can examine its overall design.

Game Instructions: This will always give you a Route Traced through the Library; success will give you more.


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 350

  • 240 - very chancy (41%)
  • 298 - chancy (51%)
  • 356 - modest (61%)
  • 415 - very modest (71%)
  • 473 - low-risk (81%)
  • 531 - straightforward (91%)
  • 584 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Chthonosophy adds 15 points of Watchful.

Success

Terrible vistas

[…]

Most views of the library seem organized by no earthly logic […] But in this vista, you can just about glean a sort of terrible symmetry – that gallery […] is a rotated mirror of the one you're standing on. Does this knowledge help? You make extensive notes[…]

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Failure

Terrible vistas

Galleries and corridors splaying out in all directions. A foggy haze hangs[...] making it difficult to discern distances and scale. [...] 'as big as Europe' may be an underestimate. Perhaps size is a poor description of something so vast yet so self-similar. [...]