Preparatory Research
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Game Instructions: Once you set sail, you will no longer be able to do preparatory research until your voyage is complete.
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Look at the current trend in Theosophistry
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Oh dear
You've lost 3 x Favours: Society
You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
Pay someone else to research for you
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A steal
You've gained 50 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
You've gained 50 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes- You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
You've lost 80 x Memory of Distant Shores
Summarise your experiences in the Wars of Illusion
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Revelations
You've lost 1 x Extraordinary Implication- You've gained 35 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
You've gained 20 x Cryptic Clue
Failure
Mysteries
- You've gained 35 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
- You've lost 1 x Extraordinary Implication
Have instruments ground
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Here they are
You've lost 1 x Whirring Contraption- You've gained 50 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
- You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
- You've gained 50 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
Trade in academic favours
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The cheek of it
- You've gained 100 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
Connected: Benthic is dropping… (-91-114 CP)- Connected: Summerset is dropping… (-91-114 CP)
Examine your collection of curiosities
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A little extra
You've lost 1 x Collection of Curiosities- You've gained 150 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
You've gained 1 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Failure
That one looks somewhat out of place
- You've lost 1 x Collection of Curiosities
- You've gained 150 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
Consult your current work
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A strange zee wind
You've lost 1 x Volume of Collated Research- You've gained 40 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
- You've gained 40 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
- You've gained 40 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
- You've gained 1 x Memory of Distant Shores
Failure
A fine evening's read
- You've lost 1 x Volume of Collated Research
- You've gained 40 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
- You've gained 40 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
- You've gained 40 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
Test your Unearthly Fossil
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A powerful fizzing
You've lost 1 x Unearthly Fossil- You've gained 80 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
You've gained 5 x Nodule of Warm Amber
Failure
Pieces of knowledge
- You've lost 1 x Unearthly Fossil
- You've gained 80 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
- You've gained 1 x Nodule of Warm Amber
Find promising students
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A tendency to gossip
You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
You've lost 2 x Favours: Urchins
You've lost 2 x Favours: The Church
You've lost 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries- You've gained 50 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
- You've gained 50 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
- You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
Rare Success
A fortunate connection
You've gained 1 x Favour in High Places- You've lost 2 x Favours: Urchins
- You've lost 2 x Favours: The Church
- You've lost 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries
- You've gained 50 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
- You've gained 50 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
- You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
Failure
What could go wrong?
- You've lost 2 x Favours: Urchins
- You've lost 2 x Favours: The Church
- You've lost 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries
- You've gained 50 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
- You've gained 50 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
- You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes
Consult the Masters of the Bazaar
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A difficulty in translation
Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar is dropping… (-2 CP)- You've gained 100 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
You've gained 3 x Maniac's Prayer
Rare Success
A particular favour
- Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar is dropping… (-2 CP)
- You've gained 100 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
You've gained 1 x Bazaar Permit
Failure
Of course, you may need a translator
- Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar is dropping… (-2 CP)
- You've gained 100 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
Setting off (with enough research)
Enough preliminary cryptopaleontology research
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Setting off
Success Instructions: For your voyage of scientific discovery, you can visit the islands and accumulate pages of research notes. Return to your lodgings when you have an armful of notes, to make sense of your research.
An occurrence! Your 'Embarking on a Voyage of Scientific Discovery' Quality is now 3 - Off into the Unknown!
An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Corpsecage Island' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Abbey Rock' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Bullbone Island' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
Enough preliminary archeology research
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Away we go
Success Instructions: For your voyage of scientific discovery, you can visit the islands and accumulate pages of research notes. Return to your lodgings when you have an armful of notes, to make sense of your research.
- An occurrence! Your 'Embarking on a Voyage of Scientific Discovery' Quality is now 3 - Off into the Unknown!
- An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Corpsecage Island' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
- An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Abbey Rock' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
- An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Bullbone Island' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
Enough preliminary theosophy research
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Don't forget to write
Success Instructions: For your voyage of scientific discovery, you can visit the islands and accumulate pages of research notes. Return to your lodgings when you have an armful of notes, to make sense of your research.
- An occurrence! Your 'Embarking on a Voyage of Scientific Discovery' Quality is now 3 - Off into the Unknown!
- An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Corpsecage Island' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
- An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Abbey Rock' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
- An occurrence! Your 'Discovered: Bullbone Island' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
