Tell the city a story of itself
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From: Reach out to the mind of the city
Cities do not trade in truth. The currency of a city is myth.
Unlocked with The Mind's Ascent exactly 3
Locked with Nightmares 8
Challenge information
Narrow, Mithridacy 10 (50% base)
- 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
- 7 - high-risk (20%)
- 8 - high-risk (30%)
- 9 - tough (40%)
- 10 - very chancy (50%)
- 11 - chancy (60%)
- 12 - modest (70%)
- 13 - very modest (80%)
- 14 - low-risk (90%)
- 15 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
The Tracklayer's Muse
[...] Of a moon and the starry sky and what was done to place it there. Of debts repaid in full, long over due. You transpose what was into what will be remembered. [...] It remains to be seen whether the city chooses to recall its own birth [...]
Description summary:
The beginning of the description varies based on the city's Founding Body.
Founding Body | Description |
---|---|
Furnace Ancona | You sing of the city's origin, of bargains done in cedar, of a woman of many faces and a single, beating heart. |
Furnace Ancona, Starved | You sing of the city's origin, of bargains done in cedar, of a woman of many faces and a single, beating heart. |
Cornelius | You sing of the city's origin, of bargains done in cedar, of man scarred by his own curiosity. |
The Manager's Double | You sing of the city's origin, of bargains done in cedar, of a man heartsick for millennia. |
Your Own Double | You sing of the city's origin, of bargains done in cedar, of twin figures doubled on the ice. |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- You are a little less and a little more yourself. (Increases The Mind's Ascent by 1 CP)
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Failure
In oceans incarnadine
You recount the foundations of other cities[…]. You speak of […] a dead god's broken heart. You sing of the revolutions of Hell, of the exiles in Arbor, of the deaths that watered Nidah's immortal gardens. […] It seems a city's birth is rarely a happy occasion.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
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