Searing Enigma | |
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Category | Possession |
Type | Academe |
Data ID | 131126 |
Searing Enigma is a possession in the Academe category.
How to get Searing Enigmas[]
Searing Enigmas are the final reward to a number of quest lines.
- Hats, Cats, Bats and Rats at Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus, The Reach.
- Entering the Regent’s Grave at Traitor's Wood, The Reach.
- Lustrum: The Mountain Beckons at Lustrum, The Reach.
- Discussion with the Presiding Deviless at Carillon, The Reach.
- Helping the Broken Steward at the Clockwork Sun, Albion.
- Reading the word from The Storm that Speaks, Albion.
- Deliver the Blemmigan Voyager to the Forge of Souls, Blue Kingdom.
Searing Enigmas can also be acquired by the following means.
- Purchase one from the Cypress King in Pan for 1 Moment of Inspiration and 5 Savage Secrets.
- Kill a Senior Scrivener in Eleutheria and trade 7 Scraps of Ancient Knowledge.
- Commingling with a Scorn Fluke.
Description[]
"An incalculably precious discovery. Don't look at it directly, unless you want to scald your blood."
Interactions[]
Interactions in Brief[]
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Interaction | Action | Result Type | Change |
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Explore the City | 'Return the broken Psalmists to their church' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Parting Glade | 'Begin your service of a year and a day' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Parting Glade | 'Return to the Dismal Paleographer' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Parting Glade | 'Return to the Vituperative Classicist' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Parting Glade | 'Return to the Feckless Theologian' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Pasts | 'Poetry' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Pasts | 'Profanity' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Pasts | 'You asked more questions' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Cache of Curiosities | 'A Nondescript Box' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Explore London | 'Deliver the Dignity of Albion Bill to the Throne of Hours' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Explore London | 'Deliver the Dignity of Albion Bill to the Throne of Hours' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Melusine Murgatroyd | 'Ask Melusine about Mr Pennies' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Light in the Mountain | 'Attempt to sabotage the array' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Light in the Mountain | 'Agree to keep its secret' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Light in the Mountain | 'Attempt to sabotage the array' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Discussion with the Presiding Deviless | 'Probe into the nature of Devil souls' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Steward's Sanctum | 'Something is wrong' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Spire of Inches | 'Present tribute to the Spire: a Searing Enigma' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Spire of Inches | 'Present tribute to the Spire: a Searing Enigma' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
The Place of the Rose | 'Drop the Repentant Devil here' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Chaplains | 'Ambition: Give a Captivating Treasure to the Conformer' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Chaplains | 'Ambition: Give 5 Casks of Navaratine Gemstones to the Conformer' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Warrens | 'Offer a Moment of Inspiration to the Pragmatic Vigilante' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Venerable Flautist | 'Ask the Flautist a pertinent, but impertinent, question' | Success | +1 |
The Well of the Wolf | 'Give the Abstemious Devil her bee' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Midnight | 'Answer yes' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Midnight | 'Answer no' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
A Scorn Fluke, Defeated | 'Commune with the Scorn Fluke' | Success | +1 |
A Scorn Fluke, Defeated | 'Create the Wrath of Heaven' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
A Scorn Fluke, Defeated | 'Create the Wrath of Heaven' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
The Bandstand | 'Decipher some of the dance-alphabet of the devils' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Bandstand | 'Decipher some of the dance-alphabet of the devils' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
The Ballroom | 'Yes' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
View From The Bottom Of The Well | 'The End' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Polmear & Plenty's | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Polmear & Plenty's | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Port Avon | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Port Avon | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at the Royal Society | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at the Royal Society | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at London | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at London | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at the House of Rods and Chains | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at the House of Rods and Chains | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Mr Menagerie's Permanent Stall for Delicious Scouts | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Mr Menagerie's Permanent Stall for Delicious Scouts | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Caduceus | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Caduceus | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Delicious Scouts | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Mr Menagerie's Stall for Delicious Scouts | 'Purchase an Intrepid Cavy' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | 'Read a word the lightning wrote' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | 'Read a word the lightning wrote' | Success | +1 |
[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | 'Read a word the lightning wrote' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | 'Read a word the lightning wrote' | Success | +1 |
[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | 'Read a word the lightning wrote' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | 'Read a word the lightning wrote' | Success | +1 |
[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | 'Record the word the lightning wrote' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | 'Record the word the lightning wrote' | Success | +1 |
Alcoholics and Melancholics | 'Wait for just one more' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
A Memorable Wedding | 'You exulted in her triumph' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Ambition: the Song of the Sky | 'Write the final canto of the Song of the Sky ' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Ambition: the Song of the Sky | 'Write the final canto of the Song of the Sky ' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Visit the Cypress King | 'Exchange knowledge for a Searing Enigma' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
An Ambitious Experiment | 'Lure something out from the place-behind-glass' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
A Risky Experiment | 'Lure something out from the place-behind-glass' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
A Senior Scrivener, Slaughtered | 'Share knowledge you've stolen from plundered libraries' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
An Encounter in the Blue Kingdom | 'Offer a mystery to keep it rooted to the world' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
An Encounter in the Blue Kingdom | 'Offer a mystery to keep it rooted to the world' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
An Encounter in the Blue Kingdom | 'Offer a mystery to keep it rooted to the world' | Rare Event | -1 |
Adrift! | 'Inscribe a Searing Enigma upon your regulator valve' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
Adrift! | 'Inscribe a Searing Enigma upon your regulator valve' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Adrift! | 'Inscribe a Searing Enigma upon your regulator valve' | Success | -1 |
The Dressing of the Well | 'Welcome to my parlour, said the spider to the sky.' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
[[The [qvd:138643(Twice-scorned)] Priest]] | 'The Psalmists finally have enough Supplies to survive' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Portsmouth Arsenal | 'Contribute a Searing Enigma' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Portsmouth Arsenal | 'Contribute a Searing Enigma' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
The Shadow of the Sun | 'Drop off the Brittle Servitor' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Shadow of the Sun | 'Drop off the Brittle Servitor' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Sun's Daughter | 'Hand over the Dignity of Albion Bill' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Lamentation of Mists | 'Inform the Lamentation of the Ombudsman's disappearance' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Forge of Souls | 'Allow your Blemmigan to enter the Forge' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Clerk of Sevens | 'Deliver the Correspondence that the Clerk requested' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Opening of the Door | 'Cling to life, and stare into the light' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Bleak Industrialist's Estate | 'Give him the jar containing the Lost Love's voice' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Bleak Industrialist's Estate | 'Return the remnants of the Lost Love' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Bleak Industrialist's Estate | 'Return the Lost Love' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Daughter's Deliberations | 'Offer a costly tithe' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Daughter's Deliberations | 'Offer a costly tithe' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
The Inhabitor of the Threshold | 'Speak a Word of Parting' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Inhabitor of the Threshold | 'Speak a Word of Parting' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Beyond Death's Door | 'Discover what happens to spirits beyond Death's Door' | Success | +1 |
Your Debut | 'Host a secret benefit for the New Street Line' | Requirement | ≥ 2 |
Your Debut | 'Host a secret benefit for the New Street Line' | Default / Challenge Fail | -2 |
Your Debut | 'Host an evening of infernal splendour' | Requirement | ≥ 2 |
Your Debut | 'Host an evening of infernal splendour' | Default / Challenge Fail | -2 |
The Presence of the Pansekritis | 'Make a study of the Pansekritis' | Success | +1 |
Ambition: the Unseen Queen | 'Show her your prize' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Cloak of the Lion | 'Cross the Falchion Bridge' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Cloak of the Lion | 'Cross the Falchion Bridge' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
The Final Champion | 'A duel of forbidden knowledge' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Final Champion | 'A duel of forbidden knowledge' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen | 'Ask about the King of Hours' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
Ambition: Be Cast into the Depths of Piranesi | 'Name the Nameless' | Requirement | ≥ 2 |
Ambition: Be Cast into the Depths of Piranesi | 'Name the Nameless' | Default / Challenge Fail | -2 |
The Watchers | 'Find a way to bribe the Watcher on the Right' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Watchers | 'Find a way to bribe the Watcher on the Right' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
The Accumulation of Time | 'Refine ten barrels of hours with a Searing Enigma' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Accumulation of Time | 'Refine ten barrels of hours with a Searing Enigma' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
A Moment's Memory | 'Approach the obelisk' | Default / Challenge Fail | +1 |
The Celestial Exhibition | 'Donate a Searing Enigma' | Requirement | ≥ 1 |
The Celestial Exhibition | 'Donate a Searing Enigma' | Default / Challenge Fail | -1 |
Interactions in Detail[]
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Story | Action | Required | Effect |
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Explore the City | Return the broken Psalmists to their church |
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Default:
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The Parting Glade | Begin your service of a year and a day |
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Return to the Dismal Paleographer |
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Return to the Vituperative Classicist |
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Default:
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Return to the Feckless Theologian |
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Default:
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Pasts | Poetry | None | Default:
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Profanity | None | Default:
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You asked more questions | None | Default:
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Cache of Curiosities | A Nondescript Box |
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Default:
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Explore London | Deliver the Dignity of Albion Bill to the Throne of Hours |
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Default:
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Deliver the Dignity of Albion Bill to the Throne of Hours |
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Melusine Murgatroyd | Ask Melusine about Mr Pennies |
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Default:
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The Light in the Mountain | Attempt to sabotage the array |
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Default:
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Agree to keep its secret | None | Default:
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Attempt to sabotage the array | Default:
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Discussion with the Presiding Deviless | Probe into the nature of Devil souls | None | Default:
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The Steward's Sanctum | Something is wrong | Default:
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The Spire of Inches | Present tribute to the Spire: a Searing Enigma | Default:
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The Place of the Rose | Drop the Repentant Devil here |
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Default:
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The Chaplains | Ambition: Give a Captivating Treasure to the Conformer |
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Default:
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Ambition: Give 5 Casks of Navaratine Gemstones to the Conformer |
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Default:
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The Warrens | Offer a Moment of Inspiration to the Pragmatic Vigilante |
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Default:
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The Venerable Flautist | Ask the Flautist a pertinent, but impertinent, question | Success:
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The Well of the Wolf | Give the Abstemious Devil her bee |
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Default:
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Midnight | Answer yes | None | Default:
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Answer no | None | Default:
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A Scorn Fluke, Defeated | Commune with the Scorn Fluke |
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Success:
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Create the Wrath of Heaven |
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Default:
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The Bandstand | Decipher some of the dance-alphabet of the devils |
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Default:
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The Ballroom | Yes | None | Default:
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View From The Bottom Of The Well | The End | None | Default:
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Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Polmear & Plenty's | Purchase an Intrepid Cavy |
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Default:
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Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Port Avon | Purchase an Intrepid Cavy |
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Default:
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Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at the Royal Society | Purchase an Intrepid Cavy |
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Default:
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Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at London | Purchase an Intrepid Cavy |
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Default:
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Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at the House of Rods and Chains | Purchase an Intrepid Cavy |
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Default:
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Mr Menagerie's Permanent Stall for Delicious Scouts | Purchase an Intrepid Cavy |
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Default:
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Mr Menagerie's Stall for Precious Scouts at Caduceus | Purchase an Intrepid Cavy |
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Default:
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Mr Menagerie's Stall for Delicious Scouts | Purchase an Intrepid Cavy |
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Default:
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[[[qvd:139348(storm_name)]]] | Read a word the lightning wrote |
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Default:
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Read a word the lightning wrote |
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Default:
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Read a word the lightning wrote |
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Default:
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Record the word the lightning wrote |
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Alcoholics and Melancholics | Wait for just one more |
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Default:
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A Memorable Wedding | You exulted in her triumph | None | Default:
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Ambition: the Song of the Sky | Write the final canto of the Song of the Sky |
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Default:
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Visit the Cypress King | Exchange knowledge for a Searing Enigma |
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Default:
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An Ambitious Experiment | Lure something out from the place-behind-glass | Default:
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A Risky Experiment | Lure something out from the place-behind-glass | Default:
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A Senior Scrivener, Slaughtered | Share knowledge you've stolen from plundered libraries | Default:
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An Encounter in the Blue Kingdom | Offer a mystery to keep it rooted to the world | Default:
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Adrift! | Inscribe a Searing Enigma upon your regulator valve | Default:
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The Dressing of the Well | Welcome to my parlour, said the spider to the sky. | None | Default:
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[[The [qvd:138643(Twice-scorned)] Priest]] | The Psalmists finally have enough Supplies to survive |
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Default:
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The Portsmouth Arsenal | Contribute a Searing Enigma | Default:
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The Shadow of the Sun | Drop off the Brittle Servitor |
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Default:
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Drop off the Brittle Servitor |
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Default:
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The Sun's Daughter | Hand over the Dignity of Albion Bill |
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Default:
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The Lamentation of Mists | Inform the Lamentation of the Ombudsman's disappearance |
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Default:
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The Forge of Souls | Allow your Blemmigan to enter the Forge |
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Default:
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The Clerk of Sevens | Deliver the Correspondence that the Clerk requested |
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Default:
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The Opening of the Door | Cling to life, and stare into the light | Default:
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The Bleak Industrialist's Estate | Give him the jar containing the Lost Love's voice |
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Default:
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Return the remnants of the Lost Love |
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Default:
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Return the Lost Love |
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Default:
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The Daughter's Deliberations | Offer a costly tithe | Default:
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The Inhabitor of the Threshold | Speak a Word of Parting |
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Default:
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Beyond Death's Door | Discover what happens to spirits beyond Death's Door |
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Success:
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Your Debut | Host a secret benefit for the New Street Line |
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Default:
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Host an evening of infernal splendour |
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Default:
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The Presence of the Pansekritis | Make a study of the Pansekritis |
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Success:
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Ambition: the Unseen Queen | Show her your prize |
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Default:
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The Cloak of the Lion | Cross the Falchion Bridge |
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Default:
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The Final Champion | A duel of forbidden knowledge | Default:
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Ambition: the Portrait of the Unseen Queen | Ask about the King of Hours | Default:
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Ambition: Be Cast into the Depths of Piranesi | Name the Nameless | Default:
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The Watchers | Find a way to bribe the Watcher on the Right |
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Default:
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The Accumulation of Time | Refine ten barrels of hours with a Searing Enigma | Default:
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A Moment's Memory | Approach the obelisk | None | Default:
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The Celestial Exhibition | Donate a Searing Enigma | Default:
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