The Enciphered Leaf

Sit here on the rim, $N, and let me show you what thirty years of reading black water has taught me. Recension Ridge revised its forbidden leaf into stone, and Vellum Crater burned its own to ash, but the Binders who held this leaf chose a third way: they enciphered it. Every letter, replaced by another, over and over, until the whole leaf read as nonsense to anyone without the key, and then they sank the enciphered page into a well and let the fen keep it, believing unreadable was as good as gone. They were nearly right. The cold light down there has kept every rim perfect for longer than anyone alive has been counting, and I have spent thirty years matching letter to letter without once finding where the pattern breaks. I believe the Unbroken Rim, the deepest well of all, still carries the whole cipher unbroken, key and all, because the Glossator swore it was the one rim they could not finish reading before they had to sail on. Go and read what the Binders trusted no one would ever break.

Experience

19500

Currency reward

1g 53s 0c

Repeatable

No

Sigil

Root and harvest