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  • Decipher Scathewick's Correspondence sign
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  • From: [[]] It appears several times. Here, a line is drawn between it and the name 'Cumberbold'. Later, it is accompanied by another, more common, Correspondence sign: a mutator indicating 'illustrious culpability'. [Find the rest of the story at ]
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Locked with
  • 1
Success title
  • The censored sigils
Failure title
  • Dangerous investigations
Game Instructions
  • The higher your Scholar of the Correspondence quality, the less this will cost.
BroadDiff
  • 160
Failure description
  • It is not a variant of any of the signs you're familiar with. [...] An intense aquamarine fire costs you part of your collection, an amount of skin, and several nights' sleep. Your dreams are full of the shapes you saw among the hissing flames.
From Card/Storylet title
  • Ambition: Nemesis 38 - Scathewick's Accounts
Unlocked with
  • * * * * -dependent costs, by level: *7: 3 x Uncanny Incunabulum, 2 x Searing Enigma *8-13: 3 x Uncanny Incunabulum, 1 x Searing Enigma *19-21: 2 x Uncanny Incunabulum, 1 x Searing Enigma
Success description
  • […] a bombazine-wrapped package. Inside are the four slim volumes of the Gulbahar Redaction. There, among the forbidden sigils, you locate the one Scathewick had crudely attempted. It means 'A thing which is empty, whose purpose is to be filled.'
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Description
  • It appears several times. Here, a line is drawn between it and the name 'Cumberbold'. Later, it is accompanied by another, more common, Correspondence sign: a mutator indicating 'illustrious culpability'.
Success summary
  • The symbol is uncommon, and upon speaking to a retired professor he informs you that a list of prohibited sigils is definitely not kept by the Senior Auditor of the Ministry of Public Decency. Later, men from the department look through your research. After they depart, you pull some volumes of research from their hiding place and find the symbol's meaning.
abstract
  • From: [[]] It appears several times. Here, a line is drawn between it and the name 'Cumberbold'. Later, it is accompanied by another, more common, Correspondence sign: a mutator indicating 'illustrious culpability'. [Find the rest of the story at ]