Try to make sense of what you've seen

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From: A Tea Room?


Spend enough time in this place and the chaos begins to come into focus.

Unlocked with Fragmentary Ontology


Challenge information

Narrow, Fragmentary Ontology 2 (50% base)

  • 0 - high-risk (30%)
  • 1 - tough (40%)
  • 2 - very chancy (50%)
  • 3 - chancy (60%)
  • 4 - modest (70%)
  • 5 - very modest (80%)
  • 6 - low-risk (90%)
  • 7 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

In the roots

This place is filled with books [...]. Each one is trapped [...], nested [....] ad nauseam. [...] you begin to gain a sense of how these taxonomies fit [...] and how they suggest the shape of ever-higher classifications, ones that these levels of the library merely hint at.


Failure

Partial understanding

You go over your notes, painstakingly trying to determine how everything is meant to fit together. It is a maddening, slow process.