The Book of All Hours: Isoptera
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Volume XIII: In which the Traveller is conscripted into the act of construction […]
The ruin differs based on […] perspective. The Traveller is permitted only to remember a museum […]. The devils […] are permitted to believe themselves remodelling a prismatic exoshell […].[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
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Foreword
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Success
'To the Traveller, without whom this would not have happened'
Success Instructions: Actions here will contribute towards progress in the 'Rebuilding a Now' quality. As time passes, you may be funnelled into different storylets instead of this one. This law will be resolved when all of the chronological uncertainty is addressed and each World Quality has met its target.
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Chapter I: Labour
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Keeper of the Tenfold Second OR Rebuilding a Now < 75000) (hidden)
Locked with Rebuilding a Now is 1500001 (World Quality, currently locked)
Success
Rubble
Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises 
Rebuilding a Now by 5, or 50 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
You've gained 644?–645 x Whispered Hint
Without
Reading the Book of All Hours:
'And so the Traveller read the Book of All Hours, and was recorded in its pages...' (Raises Reading the Book of All Hours by 1)
Chapter IX: Verminous
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Keeper of the Tenfold Second OR Rebuilding a Now < 75000) (hidden)
Locked with Rebuilding a Now is 1500001 (World Quality, currently locked)
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive Unknown Difficulty LevelSuccess
Negotiated
Persuasive is increasing…- Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 5, or 50 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
You've gained 1 x Mourning Candle
You've gained 297 x Moon-Pearl
Without
Reading the Book of All Hours:
- 'And so the Traveller read the Book of All Hours, and was recorded in its pages...' (Raises Reading the Book of All Hours by 1)
Failure
Reactionary
- Persuasive is increasing…
- Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 2, or 20 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
Chapter VI: Coddling
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A Person of Some Importance -, ( Keeper of the Tenfold Second OR Rebuilding a Now < 75000) (hidden)
Locked with Rebuilding a Now is 1500001 (World Quality, currently locked)
Challenge information
Narrow,
Respectable 8 (50% base) || 4 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 5 - high-risk (20%) || 6 - high-risk (30%) || 7 - tough (40%) || 8 - very chancy (50%) || 9 - chancy (60%) || 10 - modest (70%) || 11 - very modest (80%) || 12 - low-risk (90%) || 13 and above - straightforward (100%)Success
Blandishments
- Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 5, or 50 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
You've gained 1 x Sworn Statement
You've gained 297 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Without
Reading the Book of All Hours:
- 'And so the Traveller read the Book of All Hours, and was recorded in its pages...' (Raises Reading the Book of All Hours by 1)
Failure
Dissatisfied
- Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 2, or 20 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)
Chapter III: All Hands
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6 x Strong-Backed Labour, 
2 x Storm-Threnody, ( Keeper of the Tenfold Second OR Rebuilding a Now < 75000) (hidden)
Locked with Rebuilding a Now is 1500001 (World Quality, currently locked)
Success
Vital foundations
- Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 20, or 200 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
You've lost 6 x Strong-Backed Labour
You've lost 2 x Storm-Threnody
You've gained 3 x Silent Soul
You've gained 407?–418 x Primordial Shriek
Without
Reading the Book of All Hours:
- 'And so the Traveller read the Book of All Hours, and was recorded in its pages...' (Raises Reading the Book of All Hours by 1)
Erratum: Deliverance
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Shard of Almost-Ordered Time, ( Keeper of the Tenfold Second OR Rebuilding a Now < 75000) (hidden)
Locked with Rebuilding a Now is 1500001 (World Quality, currently locked)
Success
Rewind
- Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 15, or 150 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
You've lost 1 x Shard of Almost-Ordered Time
You've gained 6 x Extraordinary Implication
You've gained 1 x Direful Reflection
Without
Reading the Book of All Hours:
- 'And so the Traveller read the Book of All Hours, and was recorded in its pages...' (Raises Reading the Book of All Hours by 1)
Alternative Success
Congruent
- Rebuilding a Now is now (new value). (Raises Rebuilding a Now by 15, or 150 with Keeper of the Tenfold Second)
- You've lost 1 x Shard of Almost-Ordered Time
- You've gained 7–8 x Extraordinary Implication
- You've gained 1 x Direful Reflection
Without
Reading the Book of All Hours:
- 'And so the Traveller read the Book of All Hours, and was recorded in its pages...' (Raises Reading the Book of All Hours by 1)
chapter not found
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Rebuilding a Now is 75000 (World Quality, currently unlocked)
Locked with Keeper of the Tenfold Second
Success
Extraction
- You've gained 10 x Extraordinary Implication
- When you feel your heartbeat, you feel ten more besides. (Sets Keeper of the Tenfold Second to 10)
Epilogue: Return
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