Perhaps you might read a book today

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From: Enjoying the pace of academic life

You can find things to fill up your day. A little teaching, a little learning. Not too much. Wouldn't want to strain anything.

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 85

• 59 - very chancy (41%)
• 73 - chancy (51%)
• 87 - modest (61%)
• 101 - very modest (71%)
• 115 - low-risk (81%)
• 129 - straightforward (91%)
• 142 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Ivory contentment

Tea with the staff. Tea with the students […]. Perhaps a leisurely debate now and again. The pick of the libraries. The odd glass of port from the college's fine cellars. What a particularly civilised existence. They even pay you, a little.

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• Watchful is increasing…
• Term Passing... is increasing… (+2 CP)
• Connected: Benthic is increasing… (+1 CP)
• Connected: Summerset is increasing… (+1 CP)
• You've gained 20 x Primordial Shriek
• Nightmares is dropping… (-1 CP)

Failure

Days stretch to weeks

Tea with the staff. Perhaps a leisurely debate now and again. The odd book. What a […] civilised existence. […] some small problem with your pay, but […] it will be resolved […]. Are you losing your touch? Doomed to rot here? […] hopefully not.

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

• Watchful is increasing…
• Term Passing... is increasing… (+1 CP)
• Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)