In the high stacks

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From: Back to the library

While hunting down Bircher's Symbology, Madness and Death, you come across a knot of students whispering conspiratorially. One could eavesdrop.

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 87

• 60 - very chancy (41%)
• 74 - chancy (51%)
• 89 - modest (61%)
• 103 - very modest (71%)
• 118 - low-risk (81%)
• 132 - straightforward (91%)
• 145 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Laughing Weasel?

A few students - Benthic types […] - are conversing with some […]. In code. […]

You're not sure who the Laughing Dog might be, but a Bad Apple is probably a theft. A Laughing Weasel is an inflammatory pamphlet. The Convent is Veilgarden. […]

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• Watchful is increasing…
• Term Passing... is increasing… (+2 CP)
• You've gained 44 x Cryptic Clue

Failure

'Ahem, excuse me...'

A few students are conversing with some down-at-heel, soot-stained vagabonds. They are using some kind of code. […] You can't make head nor tail of what they're saying, though. Probably some newfangled student nonsense. […]

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• Watchful is increasing…
• Term Passing... is increasing… (+2 CP)
• Connected: Benthic is dropping… (-2 CP)