Direct Your Own Research

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Not everything requires equipment. Some things are a matter of pure cogitation.

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Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.

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Begin your work with research in the Correspondence

•  Spoiler ID: 239291
  

  Unlocked with ,  any level
  Locked with  any amount
  

   

  Success

  Dunk your head frequently

  •  You've gained (30 + Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research

  ^

Work Alone

•  Spoiler ID: MISSING
  

  Unlocked with  1
  Locked with  1
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 205 || 141 - very chancy (41%) || 175 - chancy (51%) || 209 - modest (61%) || 243 - very modest (71%) || 277 - low-risk (81%) || 311 - straightforward (91%) || 342 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Focus and clarity

  • Watchful is increasing…
  •  You've gained 3 x Laboratory Research

  Rare Success

  Progress

  • Watchful is increasing…
  •  You've gained 4 x Laboratory Research
  •  You've gained 1 x Incisive Observation

  Failure

  Very gradual progress

  •  You've gained 1 x Laboratory Research

  ^

Exchange ideas with your team

•  Spoiler ID: 236141
  

  Unlocked with ,
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 200 || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Focus and clarity

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  You've gained () × 3 Laboratory Research

  Failure

  Grumbling, dissent

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  You've gained x Laboratory Research

  ^

Put a few clues together

•  Spoiler ID: 237360
  

  Unlocked with  1,
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 205 || 141 - very chancy (41%) || 175 - chancy (51%) || 209 - modest (61%) || 243 - very modest (71%) || 277 - low-risk (81%) || 311 - straightforward (91%) || 342 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  You're learning

  • You've lost 5 x Incisive Observation
  •  You've gained 1-15 x Laboratory Research (unconfirmed)

  Failure

  A brain like molasses

  • You've lost 5 x Incisive Observation
  •  You've gained 10 x Laboratory Research

  ^

Ponder how to acquire experiments

•  Spoiler ID: 237456
  

  Action Cost: 0
  Locked with  1
  

   

  Success

  Begin an experiment...

  ^

Experiment-Specific Options

Mechanical Research

Take apart your Whirring Contraption, apply its lessons to this work

•  Spoiler ID: MISSING
  

  Unlocked with  301-400,
  

   

  Success

  Turning this way, counter-rotating that

  •  You've gained 75 x Laboratory Research
  • You've lost 1 x Whirring Contraption

  ^

Monstrous Research

Apply your understanding of monsters

•  Spoiler ID: 238979
  

  Unlocked with  401-479 or exactly 495,
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  You've seen this before

  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

  Monstrous Anatomy	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
  	6	8	10	12	15	18	20	23	25	27	29	30	31	32	33	33	34

  Failure

  Is that bone or cartilage?

  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)

  Monstrous Anatomy	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  	3	4	5	6	7	9	10	11	12

  ^

Apply your understanding of monsters (Whitsun eggs)

•  Spoiler ID: MISSING
  

  Unlocked with  480-499,
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  You've seen monsters that lay eggs

  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

  Monstrous Anatomy	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
  	6	8	10	12	15	18	20	23	25	27	29	30	31	32	33	33	34

  Failure

  Heavier than it looks

  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)

  Monstrous Anatomy	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  	3	4	5	6	7	9	10	11	13

  ^

Feed your Acute Squirrel a sample

•  Spoiler ID: 255708
  

  Unlocked with ,  401-500,
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Interpreting venom

  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

  Kataleptic Toxicology	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
  	6	8	10	12	15	18	20	23	25	27	29	30	31	32	33	33	34

  Failure

  It recoils

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

  Kataleptic Toxicology	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  	6	7	9	12	14	17	20	23	26

  ^

Take comfort in the drug

•  Spoiler ID: MISSING
  

  Unlocked with  exactly 470 (Test Spices' drug on various animals),
  

   

  Success

  Taste, taste

  •  You've gained (30 + Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research

  ^

Chemical Research

Apply your chemical knowledge

•  Spoiler ID: 238999
  

  Unlocked with  901-1000,  1
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Fine use for a fume hood

  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

  Kataleptic Toxicology	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
  	6	8	10	12	15	18	20	23	25	27	29	30	31	32	33	33	34

  Failure

  Much too basic

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

  Kataleptic Toxicology	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  	3	4	5	6	7	9	10	11	13

  ^

Mathematical Research

Relate this problem to past enigmas

•  Spoiler ID: 238961
  

  Unlocked with ,  1001-1200
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 200 || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Understand the enigmatic

  • Watchful is increasing…
  • You've lost 1 x Searing Enigma
  •  You've gained 525 x Laboratory Research

  
  

  Failure

  Costly progress

  • Watchful is increasing…
  • You've lost 1 x Searing Enigma
  •  You've gained 500 x Laboratory Research

  ^

Read your Uncanny Incunabula for guidance

•  Spoiler ID: 238962
  

  Unlocked with ,  1001-1200
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 200 || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Which passage was it...

  • Watchful is increasing…
  • You've lost 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum
  •  You've gained 105 x Laboratory Research

  Failure

  Slow to connect

  • Watchful is increasing…
  •  You've gained 100 x Laboratory Research
  • You've lost 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum

  ^

Use what you know of the unknowable

•  Spoiler ID: 238981
  

  Unlocked with  1001-1200,
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  You've seen this before

  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

  Artisan of the Red Science	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
  	6	8	10	12	15	18	20	23	25	27	29	30	31	32	33	33	34	34

  Failure

  That did not help

  •  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)

  Artisan of the Red Science	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
  	3	4	5	6	7	9	10	11	13

  ^

Toxicological Research

Use what you know of the Second City

•  Spoiler ID: 239237, 252955
  

  Unlocked with ,  1,
  

   

  Success

  Milking the venomous

  •  You've gained 25 x Laboratory Research
  • You've lost 30 x Expertise of the Second City

  ^

Use your Cantigaster Venom in the process of studying

•  Spoiler ID: 239246, 253380
  

  Unlocked with , ,  1
  Locked with  3
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Delicately handled

  •  You've gained (see below) Laboratory Research
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+4 CP)

  Kataleptic Toxicology	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
  	8	10	12	14	17	20	22	25	27	29	31	32	33	34	35	35	36

  Failure

  Costly progress

  •  You've gained (see below, tentative) Laboratory Research

  Kataleptic Toxicology	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
  	3	4	5	6	7	9	10	11	13	14

  •  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)

  ^