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From: A Sundered Sea

Breathe deep. Resist the urge to gag. The lacre has a salty tang this season.

Unlocked with Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 3

Challenge information

A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 50%)

Success

A zee-voyage

First the ammoniac reek of the lacre, then the damp smell of the zee and the rank sweat of straining oarsmen. You remember a ship, her belly burdened with […]quarried stone. […]

The memory lifts. Your nostrils protest. They may never forgive you.

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

• You've lost 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre
•  You've gained 1 x Direful Reflection
•  Melancholy is increasing… (+ 3 CP, up to level 10)

Rare Success

A Memory of the Duchess

The sharpness of the lacre. […] And under that […] lamp-smoke and acacia wood.

You remember your mistress hurrying through […] the Beloved's Palace. […] She came to a bedchamber […] Writhing attendants were dying, loudly, on the tiles. […]

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

• You've lost 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre
•  You've gained 1 x Searing Enigma
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)

Failure

A zee-burial

A memory claws its way up your nostrils […] A quiet black sea. […] A glistening coffin of salt.

A mourner weeps behind her sparrow-mask. Dog-headed attendants […] heave. The coffin slides into the waves […]

You sneeze. The memory is lost.

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

• You've lost 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre
•  You've gained 1 x Touching Love Story
•  Melancholy is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)

Rare Failure

The second of five

The stench of the lacre burns your nostrils. You remember dim streets […] Drifts of sand fringed the square houses. […]

[…] A black river murmured past the Beloved's Palace. At the heart of the city […]the Bazaar's spires climbed into the gloom.

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

• You've lost 1 x Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre
•  You've gained 1 x Memory of Light
•  Melancholy is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
•  Walking the Falling Cities is increasing… (+5 CP)