Water your (growth)

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From: Vertiginous Horticulture


It is the very least you could do. Although the rooftops offer few usable faucets – you'll need to gather what you can from the guttering.

Description summary:
The title varies with Rooftop Growth.

Rooftop Growth:Growth
1: Singular Cuttingssingular cuttings
2: 'Dawn-Yodeller' Mandrakesmandrakes
3: Prize-Winning Peppercapspeppercaps
4: Recusant Marigoldsmarigolds
5: False-Cantigaster Hybridspoisonous hybrids
6: Millennium Rosesjewelled roses
7: Tomorrowspore Ortcapsortcaps

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Unlocked with Nurturing a Rooftop Growth 1 - 150, The Airs of London 26-75


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 65

  • 45 - very chancy (41%)
  • 56 - chancy (51%)
  • 67 - modest (61%)
  • 77 - very modest (71%)
  • 88 - low-risk (81%)
  • 99 - straightforward (91%)
  • 109 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Rooftop Growth, Difficulty: increases the base difficulty by 5 points.

Success

Thirsty

You roam the roofs and gutters with your watering can. [...] It should suffice. [...]

Description summary:
The middle of the description varies with The Airs of London, while the end varies with Rooftop Growth. Wiki note: Numbers unaccounted for: 0 – 2, 69 – 78, 100

AirsDescription
3-25Here – a milky puddle reflecting a sourceless, moonish light.
26-49You wouldn't drink this stuff yourself – but then again, you are not the subject of a horticultural experiment.
50-68Roof-drip collects in this deep trough between one roof and its neighbour. This should be full of nutrition. Or, full of something, anyway.
79-99You find a puddle of impossibly clear water, pooling in a blocked gutter. You look around but find nothing. Best not to question your fortune.
GrowthDescription
1: Singular CuttingsDo you imagine that your Singular Plants watch you, as you approach with the can?
2: 'Dawn-Yodeller' MandrakesThe soil-muffled overtures of the mandrake subsist into a contented gurgling. Watering it is one of the only things that shuts it up.
3: Prize-Winning PeppercapsYour Prize-Winning Peppercaps are thirsty. It takes a great deal to quench their fire.
4: Recusant MarigoldsSome of the water evaporates before it hits the soil [...] the broad leaves and wide petals of the marigolds capture and condense the steam back into droplets that run uneasily down the stem.
5: False-Cantigaster HybridsThe water refuses to mix with the Hybrids' black excretions of spore-sap. There are deathrattle hisses as air pockets within the mushrooms cede ground to wet soil.
6: Millennium RosesThe roses respond to the watering immediately, opening up their petals and pushing forth new leaves. They live as fast and as fiercely as they can.
7: Tomorrowspore OrtcapsThe Ortcaps' black lacy skirts frill and sigh as you pour water onto the soil, as if in relief. You find yourself thinking of past thirsts, and their quenchings.

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Rare Success

Weather at last

A drop lands on your face. Then another. Rain! Or something approximating it, anyway. Perhaps some subterranean aquifer in the roof far above London has burst. Quickly – set up the raincatchers. Your [Growth] will surely enjoy this.


Failure

Parched

From whence do the Fisher-Kings drink? You do not know. You look for water on the rooftops, and find none. It is easy enough to descend to street level and fill up a bucket – but by the time you do, your [Growth] are looking wilted and sad.
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