#story_event #GCE #arc As you walk the winding, high-walled thought-path, you feel the border approaching. Explore the maze, or press through the barrier. If an arc survivor would gain a fighting art, instead choose to [[#Explore the Maze]] or [[#Press Through]]. When an arc survivor gains a secret fighting art, they gain it as normal and suffer +1 system pressure or torment. End this event. ### Explore the Maze Roll 1d10 | 1d10 | Result | | ----- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1 | Disoriented, meandering the path of your mind, you near an edge. You can feel the answer just on the other side. You need only leap over the yawning mouth at your feet, but you fall short. Chewed to pieces. [[#Death Tension Headache]]. | | 2 - 9 | You scramble up heaps of experience and impressions. The fighting art forms your final foothold. It crumbles as you ascend to the higher clarity. Gain **+1 lumi**. | | 10+ | You follow the generative urge, but it leads you back to the centre. Before you, the gleaming golden heart beats and bleeds the black ichor of inspiration. You drink from a vein. Gain **+2 lumi**.<br><br>If the settlement has 30+ CC, gain an observation in your tenet knowledge. | ### Press Through Gain +1 systemic pressure and roll 1d10 | 1d10 | Result | | ----- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1 | In pursuit, you lower yourself into ice-cold watery depths. It stings your eyes and stops you from breathing. The pressure crushes you as you sink into darkness. Gain **+1 torment**. | | 2 - 7 | Your limbs depart your body. Your fingers and toes float loose in a void. Each digit experiences a piece of incomprehensible capacity. Your disembodied mind comprehends but you cannot pull the pieces back together. The experience ends. | | 8+ | You reach through the barrier, sensing by touch alone. You desperately attempt to comprehend the cold stone edifices that contain infinite delicate tomes. Some are barely tangible, yet others are solid. You manage to latch on to something! Gain the **fighting art** and record it as normal. | #### Death Tension Headache Roll 1d10 | 1d10 | Result | | ----- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1 | The pressure in your cranium builds. Your brain sten itches. Suffer the [[head\|head explosion]] severe injury. | | 2 - 9 | Death of subconsciousness. Lose all once per lifetime rerolls and skip the next hunt to recover. | | 10+ | You ascend the stairs. Your muscles burn, your bones ache, and your skin disintegrates. A corpse sits in your way. It offers you a ten-sided rock. Gain a once per lifetime reroll. The corpse crumbles to dust. |