Proscribed Material

Proscribed Material
The censors are empowered to confiscate this stuff. But why should they have all the fun?
Purchased for 8 pence, Sells for 4 pence

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Using Proscribed Material

Sift Through your Proscribed Material

It's certainly illegal. But is it good for anything other than a frisson of the forbidden?

Discuss your books at a particularly discreet salon

The duller gazettes occasionally note this regular salon as 'the meeting place for marsh-botanists with an interest in social change'. You know better. [This will always gain you Inklings of Identity. It may have other effects.]
A matter of luck: pretty good odds.
Unlocked with 25 x Proscribed Material

Lucky spoiler

The only reasonable course

'…the imagery is banal, and I can't see why the Masters would seek to ban this nonsense in the first place. Glowing mountains and secret gardens indeed. Stuff and humbug! Let's get drunk.'

Lose: 25 x Proscribed Material
Gain: 10 x Inkling of Identity
Gain: 15 x Greyfields 1882

Rare spoiler

Almost adorable

'…well, isn't this the sweetest little story? Apart from the drowning, I mean. And the marsh-wolves. Delightful. It fair brings a tear to even my eye. Why must they tax these tales of love so? It makes no sense at all.'

Lose: 25 x Proscribed Material
Gain: 10 x Inkling of Identity
Gain: 1 x Touching Love Story

Unlucky spoiler

Deducing an author

'…although I can't be sure, I think it's a transcription of a conversation with a revolutionary Rubbery Man. I know - scarcely believable. But the text does have a certain boneless authenticity to it…'

Lose: 25 x Proscribed Material
Gain: 10 x Inkling of Identity

Study an armful of forbidden books

You'll just have to work out who wrote them on your own.
[This will always gain you many Inklings of Identity.]
Unlocked with 250 x Proscribed Material

Reward spoiler

At last

The candle burns low. You can hardly feel your writing hand. But you know. You know.

Lose: 250 x Proscribed Material
Gain: 105 x Inkling of Identity

All manner of banned works

You can see why sedition and calls to revolution would be forbidden. But why regulate the movement of love poetry? Why ban the discussion of Egypt? Perhaps a friend from the Surface can shed some light.

Invite a friend option.

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