Examine the contraption with your own two eyes (Waswood)

ID: 258977

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From: Basalt, silence, dissolution

Is what Gebrandt is saying true?

Unlocked with  exactly 1, ,

Challenge information

Property "Against" (as page type) with input value "" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category: Challenge]]Narrow, 1 (50% base)

• 0 - tough (40%)
• 1 - very chancy (50%)
• 2 - chancy (60%)
• 3 - modest (70%)
• 4 - very modest (80%)
• 5 - low-risk (90%)
• 6 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Property "Against" (as page type) with input value "" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category: Challenge]]Narrow, 1 (50% base)

• 0 - tough (40%)
• 1 - very chancy (50%)
• 2 - chancy (60%)
• 3 - modest (70%)
• 4 - very modest (80%)
• 5 - low-risk (90%)
• 6 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Indeed

The device, which seems to collect the stones' weeping through […] to an internal reservoir, is indeed mostly […]. But there are the unmistakeable signs of […] in the arrangement of its parts. If this machine is not designed to […], it is at the very least […].

Description summary:
You can tell that the device involves not only chemistry but also the Red Science, intended at least to work around a Law if not to break one outright.

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•  The scent of ozone in the air. (Sets Mourners at an Exhibition to 2)

Failure

Incomprehensible

There's something of the Correspondence to it – wouldn't be making your eyes water otherwise – but it is well-hidden, perhaps concealed beneath the sphinxstone that the machine is embedded into. It's hard to make out the intent of the design.

•  The scent of ozone in the air. (Sets Mourners at an Exhibition to 2)