The Wellspring of Spatial Uncertainty

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ID: 372476

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A cliff. A maze. A sandy shore. A climb, a fall, a drowning. A tessellation of distant places: a map under bone-shattering strain. Step carefully, and hold your certainties loosely.

Unlocked with a redirect from Enter the place where direction ends

Storylet appears in Moloch Street

Options:

(Visit the Unfidgeting Writer)

•  Spoiler ID: 273132
  

  Action Cost: 0
  

   

  Success

  Checking in

  Redirects to: The Personal Suite of an Unfidgeting Writer

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Attempt to travel (horizontally)

•  Spoiler ID: 272866
  

  Locked with ( Right, But Not Correct AND Maintaining the Distance exactly 1) (Confusion abounds.), Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Dislocation

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
  •  [Airs of Broken Space change…] (random)

  Redirects to: The Wellspring of Spatial Uncertainty

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Attempt to travel (cardinally)

•  Spoiler ID: 272972
  

  Locked with ( A Redefinition of West AND Maintaining the Distance exactly 0) (Confusion abounds.), Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Dislocation

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
  •  [Airs of Broken Space change…] (random)

  Redirects to: The Wellspring of Spatial Uncertainty

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Attempt to travel (rotationally)

•  Spoiler ID: 272973
  

  Locked with ( Wayward Widdershins AND Maintaining the Distance exactly 3) (Confusion abounds.), Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Dislocation

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
  •  [Airs of Broken Space change…] (random)

  Redirects to: The Wellspring of Spatial Uncertainty

  ^

Attempt to travel (vertically)

•  Spoiler ID: 272974
  

  Locked with ( Another Way Downstairs AND Maintaining the Distance exactly 2) (Confusion abounds.), Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Dislocation

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+1-2 CP)
  •  [Airs of Broken Space change…] (random)

  Redirects to: The Wellspring of Spatial Uncertainty

  ^

Step back onto Moloch Street

•  Spoiler ID: 272992
  

  Action Cost: 0
  

   

  Success

  Out?

  •  Your 'Maintaining the Distance' Quality has gone!

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Attempt to get your bearings

•  Spoiler ID: 273138
  

  Action Cost: 0
  

   

  Redirects to:

  → Casting Aside Directional Doubts

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Maintaining the Distance 0

Attempt to travel west

•  Spoiler ID: 272976
  

  Unlocked with ( A Redefinition of West AND Maintaining the Distance exactly 0) (West is less confusing than the rest.)
  Locked with Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Arrival

  • You have moved to a new area: The Pale Wastes
  • You have moved to a new setting: Zailing the Unterzee (hidden)
  •  [Airs of Broken Space change…] (random)

  Redirects to: The Corners of the Map

  ^

Maintaining the Distance 1

Attempt to travel right

•  Spoiler ID: 272977
  

  Unlocked with ( Right, But Not Correct AND Maintaining the Distance exactly 1) (Can that really be right?)
  Locked with Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Arrival

  • You have moved to a new area: Irem
  • You have moved to a new setting: Irem (Setting) (hidden)
  •  [Airs of Broken Space change…] (random)

  Redirects to: The Corners of the Map

  ^

Maintaining the Distance 2

Attempt to travel downstairs

•  Spoiler ID: 272978
  

  Action Cost: 0
  Unlocked with ( Another Way Downstairs AND Maintaining the Distance exactly 2) (There are other ways down.)
  Locked with Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Arrival

  • You have moved to a new area. It is hungry. Happily, now it is filled. (You've moved to Kingeater's Castle)
  • You have moved to a new setting: Zailing the Unterzee (hidden)
  •  [Airs of Broken Space change…] (random)

  Redirects to: The Corners of the Map

  ^

Maintaining the Distance 3

Attempt to travel anticlockwise

•  Spoiler ID: 272979
  

  Unlocked with ( Wayward Widdershins AND Maintaining the Distance exactly 3) (Tick tock.)
  Locked with Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Arrival

  • You have moved to a new area: The Shadows Around the Dawn Machine
  • You have moved to a new setting: Zailing the Unterzee (hidden)
  •  [Airs of Broken Space change…] (random)

  Redirects to: The Corners of the Map

  ^

Maintaining the Distance 4

Escape this ruin of crumpled space

•  Spoiler ID: 272988
  

  Unlocked with Maintaining the Distance 4
  

   

  Success

  Mile after mile

  •  The Law of Nowheres is now (new value). (Raises The Law of Nowheres by 1)
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Maintaining the Distance' Quality is now 10!
  •  Space stretches and strains like an overstuffed rat. (Sets A Reorganisation of Space to 25 - Careful where you step)
  •  You've gained 1 x Treating the Symptoms

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