The Correspondence?

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From: Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 7

Bagley's alternate notation system contains something that looks very much like bastardised Correspondence sigils! This may be your only chance to study it.

Unlocked with A Scholar of the Correspondence 1

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 75

• 52 - very chancy (41%)
• 64 - chancy (51%)
• 77 - modest (61%)
• 89 - very modest (71%)
• 102 - low-risk (81%)
• 114 - straightforward (91%)
• 125 - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Hieroglyphic filth!

[…] The Bell loves the Candle; the Candle hates the Bell but can't resist her. […]

[…] a series of half-legible ravings about echoes, stars and couriers. Useless. But here, between two pages stuck together by what might be soup... a daguerreotype!

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

• Watchful is increasing…

• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King has increased to 8!
• A Scholar of the Correspondence is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 10)

Failure

A malevolently obscure tangle of ink

The more you stare at the manuscript, the more it seems to dissolve into irrelevant squiggles. Is it really the Correspondence at all? Your head is hurting.

• Watchful is increasing…
• Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)