P49
Papyrus 49 (Papyrus Yale 415 — Ephesians 4:16–29; 4:31–5:13)
The letter is Paul’s; the copyist’s name is unknown
Nobody made a fuss when it was found. It is just a page of Paul, copied carefully by somebody who was paid to.
- Catch rate
- 60 / 255
- Base research
- 112
- Stat total
- 216
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
A leaf rather than a scrap — most of two chapters, with one gap in the middle where verse 30 should be.
What survives is Paul telling a church how to live in a room together: stop lying, be kind, forgive. It argues plainly and it argues well.
A professional hand — no breathings, no accents, the work of somebody who copied for a living. The text reads clearly and nobody disputes it.
An ordinary third-century leaf in a university library. Real, useful, and almost never the first thing anyone thinks of.
Cited for this book
Third century, now Papyrus Yale 415. The scribe worked without breathings or accents in a hand shaped by cursive — a working copyist, not a display copy. It overlaps 𝔓132 at Ephesians 4:16: two scraps, found separately, that hold the same line.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put Away Falsehood | Ethics | Argument | 65 | 100% | 15 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 24 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 29 | Be Kind to One Another | Ethics | Restore | — | — | 10 |
| 34 | Reprove the Darkness | Ethics | Argument | 70 | 95% | 10 |