Tune the gears' reflections

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ID: 272177

Spoiler warning! This page contains details about Fallen London Actions.

From: The Machinery of Law

There's a machine reflected in the machine: a hallucinatory engine.

Unlocked with Ceteris Paribus 0-50

Locked with Void Ab Initio 8

Challenge information

Narrow, Glasswork 4 (50% base)

• 0 - almost impossible (10%)
• 1 - high-risk (20%)
• 2 - high-risk (30%)
• 3 - tough (40%)
• 4 - very chancy (50%)
• 5 - chancy (60%)
• 6 - modest (70%)
• 7 - very modest (80%)
• 8 - low-risk (90%)
• 9 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

The difficulty is equal to the average of your base Glasswork, Artisan of the Red Science, Mithridacy, and Chthonosophy (rounded down), and is also increased by 1 for every two levels of Void Ab Initio.

Success

Jus soli

You tighten a nightmare's rivets, and the furnace belches black smoke. You adjust the coupling between two dreams, and throughput increases by a raft of Wednesdays. You open a heat-vent, and[…] poppies bloom like flames. The law-furnace dreams on[…].

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

•  Stability through Combustion is now (new value). (Raises Stability through Combustion by 1)
•  You've gained 472-580 x Actus Reus
•  Time passes. You recognise some of these seconds. (Raises Pro Tempore by 1)
• With increasing probability (unknown formula) as Pro Tempore increases:
  •  You are closer to becoming undone. (Increases Void Ab Initio by 2 CP)
• Everything seems to have changed. Perhaps one day it will stop. [Ceteris Paribus change…] (random)
• Categories shift. Ontologies fidget on restless wings. [Inter Alia change…] (random)

Failure

Lex loci

You adjust the fuel lines […] The furnace chamber fills with a black miasma of ashed edicts […] Do not breathe it in—

Your lungs are iron. Your lungs are not. Your lungs are […] also a suffocating whimsy...

Worse than the smog[…] is needing to be rescued by [Imp]. […]

Description summary:
The name of the imp varies based on Ceteris Paribus.

Ceteris Paribus	Imp
1 - 5	Unforeseen Barnabas
6 - 10	Faithless Caleb
11 - 15	Acquisitive Cain
16 - 20	Breathless Abel
21 - 25	Helpless Eleazar
26 - 30	Hairless Esau
31 - 35	Dry Jethro
36 - 40	Thankless Judah
41 - 45	Haughty Obadiah
46 - 50	Friendless Philemon
51 - 55	Samson Moon-Face
56 - 60	Deceitful Sheba
61 - 65	Eunice Shin-Kicker
66 - 70	Odorous Keturah
71 - 75	Young Priscilla
76 - 80	Dinah the Judgemental
81 - 85	Damp Drusilla
86 - 90	Heavy Jemima
91 - 94	Exuberant Leah
95 - 100	Bitter Miriam

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

•  You've gained 256-580? x Actus Reus
•  Time passes. You recognise some of these seconds. (Raises Pro Tempore by 1)
•  You are closer to becoming undone. (Increases Void Ab Initio by 1-3? CP)
• Everything seems to have changed. Perhaps one day it will stop. [Ceteris Paribus change…] (random)
• Categories shift. Ontologies fidget on restless wings. [Inter Alia change…] (random)