Become a Correspondent

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From: An Unsigned Message

'The Correspondent writes with a pen of fire and a hand of adamant. No topic is beyond his consideration, no subject too fundamental or necessary to be critiqued. He has, with a single essay, destroyed a religion, started a war, or shaken the earth.'

Game Instructions: Advance from Author to Correspondent.

Unlocked with A Scholar of the Correspondence 10, Profession: Author, Notability 5

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 300

• 205 - very chancy (41%)
• 255 - chancy (51%)
• 305 - modest (61%)
• 355 - very modest (71%)
• 405 - low-risk (81%)
• 455 - straightforward (91%)
• 500 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

The times, they are a-changing...

[…] Within the month, your searing exposé on the inconstancy of gravity provokes - in order - accolades, censure, a conference, death threats,[…]

Your established followers do not appreciate your new direction. […] You are beyond them now. […]

Player summary:
Your paper on the inconstancy of gravity provokes responses ranging from accolades to riots and a considerable amount of attention.

Your previous readers (Appreciation Society) do not approve of this, but you have left them behind to discover new secrets of reality.

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You are now a Correspondent.
• You no longer have any of this: Appreciation Society
• You now have 1 x A Pot of Violant Ink

Failure

Unappreciated

Your new paper - "A Caprice of Open Voids Considered as a Helix of Sestinas" - undermines all science and superstition, and opens new vistas of discovery regarding the governance of the universe. But no-one understands it.

• Watchful is increasing…
• Making Waves is increasing… (+2 CP)
• You've gained 1 x Volume of Collated Research