Editing Work with your Visionary Student

{{Card
|Icon = isery.png
|ID = 344900
|location = University Laboratory (Place)
|Frequency = Standard Frequency
|Discardable = no
|Description = They require terrifyingly little direction or guidance. They might well be able to run the laboratory without you.
|Unlocked with = {{Unlock|Laboratory Services from a Visionary Student}}, {{Unlock|Experimental Object}}
|Option1 = Shepherd your student through some research (Visionary){{!}}Shepherd your student through some research
|Option2 = Collaborate with your student (Visionary){{!}}Collaborate with your student
|Option3 = Work with your expert student (Visionary){{!}}Work with your expert student 
|Option4 = Leave your student to their own devices
|Option5 = Follow up a hunch with your student (Visionary){{!}}Follow up a hunch with your student
|Option6 = Let them tutor your other students
}}

==Research Descriptions==
The Visionary Student's research descriptions vary by {{IL|Experimental Object|Appearance=Experiment}}, but they are shared across several actions on their card. Expand the table below to see the known variations.
{{Variant table|Condition = Experimental Object|Condition alias = Experiment|Effect = Research Description
<noinclude>|Condition type = Raw</noinclude>
|Value 10 = {{EO|10}}
|Effect 10 = Their writeup is sophisticated and supported by solid evidence throughout.
|Value 40 = {{EO|40}}, {{EO|310 - 320}}
|Effect 40 = They commit wholeheartedly to the engineering challenge. They experiment with cogs, gears, springs, methods for converting motion in one kind into motion of another.
|Value 110 = {{EO|110 - 130}}
|Effect 110 = They bring a savage ingenuity to the work. They appear to regard the question as purely intellectual, and document without qualms how a weapon might be made ever more lethal.
|Value 140 = {{EO|140 - 160}}
|Effect 140 = They bring a savage ingenuity to the work. They appear to regard the question as purely intellectual, and document without qualms how a Parabolan Principle might be untethered from those it owes allegiance and perhaps even employed against them.
|Value 210 = {{EO|210 - 240, 260}}
|Effect 210 = They consider this kind of work almost a form of play or puzzle […]. They skim through two or three books at once, […] keeping place in the various source materials. They cross-reference and compare. Their notes, at the end, are a labyrinth.
|Value 250 = {{EO|250}}
|Effect 250 = […]Nothing ties the scrip and the land up-river. Laid edge to edge, they do not make up a whole map, and certainly not one with any meaning. Certain landmarks repeat – the river's edge, […] But the representation is distorted, almost Parabolan.
|Value 330 = {{EO|330}}
|Effect 330 = […] They lay the cup down and fill it with water, then sketch the wave patterns formed within. These begin as ripples, but soon work themselves up into a powerful standing pattern […]<p>"The Spirit of the age," they comment elliptically […]
|Value 350 = {{EO|350}}
|Effect 350 = Your Visionary Student talks for several minutes about higher dimensional spaces, vibrations of ether as affected by Correspondence placed in nexus locations, the activations achieved by a focused beam of apocyan, and so on.
|Value 360 = {{EO|360}}
|Effect 360 = They know how to go about the calculations, even if they are bewildered by the application[…] It would take, by your estimate, four hundred thousand years to perform the experiment they have just proposed. Surely the impracticality will occur to them […]
|Value 410 = {{EO|410}}
|Effect 410 = Your Visionary Student is entranced with the optical possibilities of the Focused Albatross. They subject it to cosmogone and viric rays, to irrigo and to contraband moonlight. They submerge it in water and study refraction angles. […]
|Value 420 = {{EO|420}}
|Effect 420 = The Warbler praises your Visionary Student with all seven of its heads. […] The Visionary Student is as disconcerted as you have ever seen them, and they find excuses to focus their studies on what can be found in books. […]
|Value 430 = {{EO|430}}, {{EO|440}}, {{EO|460}}, {{EO|465}}
|Effect 430 = […] keen to perform vivisections and work with tissue samples. They request the opportunity to study blood under a microscope. They bring an entire set of scalpels[…]You forbid all this, at least while the behavioural studies are ongoing[…]
|Value 450 = {{EO|450}}
|Effect 450 = Your Visionary Student is delighted to be let loose on a carcass to investigate its component parts. Their enthusiasm is unsettling, but appreciated. There are so, so many parts.
|Value 470 = {{EO|470}}
|Effect 470 = They are able to show […] that the drug has a stronger effect on bats and bat-like creatures than on any of the other beasts in the laboratory. […] it appears to differentially affect pregnant bats, often by quieting the offspring in the womb. […]
|Value 480 = {{EO|480}}
|Effect 480 = The Visionary Student offers to go at the egg with a sledgehammer. But you've plenty of opportunities to hatch the thing; […] Chastened, they test the composition of the shell, and extract compounds of resin, amber, and something that shines like pearl.
|Value 485 = {{EO|485}}
|Effect 485 = The Visionary Student observes the egg's similarity to frogspawn, or roe […] when this many eggs are laid at once, usually only a scant few survive. […] the parent of these eggs expected their spawn to be hunted; to be prey; to die en masse.
|Value 490 = {{EO|490}}
|Effect 490 = The Visionary Student gets out the tools of a rockhound, and chips away a granite-coloured flake from the outside of the egg. It is unquestionably stone, a true fossil. But it is also warm, as though life remains within.
|Value 495 = {{EO|495}}
|Effect 495 = The Visionary Student lines up nearly a dozen different animals, from rats and spiders all the way up to a fungal pony. They take the heart from every one.
|Value 510 = {{EO|510 - 530}}
|Effect 510 = They study the bones for signs of damage and evidence of ancient attachment points. They create wax and plaster models of the other bones that might[…] have connected with this one. They propose diagrams of how the deceased creature most likely walked.
|Value 540 = {{EO|540}}
|Effect 540 = Beneath their hands, cartilage flexes and bone flows. Their aptitude for the arts of shaping is shocking, {{...}}. When they finish, the ribcage is a flowering, spiderlike thing, and they arch an eyebrow in your direction. "Everyone has hobbies."
|Value 610 = {{EO|610}}
|Effect 610 = They study the bones for signs of damage and evidence of ancient attachment points. They create wax and plaster models of the other bones that might[…] have connected with this one. They propose diagrams of how the deceased creature most likely walked.
|Value 810 = {{EO|810 - 820}}
|Effect 810 = They do not find rocks very interesting. They consider geology a slow subject. They compose witty limericks rhyming the word 'strata'. Their work is, of course, excellent all the same.
|Value 910 = {{EO|910 - 920}}
|Effect 910 = They do not come up with one single solution. They come up with dozens of variants, instead: fine gradations on the same formula, variant approaches that would yield minutely different results.
|Value 930 = {{EO|930}}
|Effect 930 = […]"Some of the ingredients are obscure, or have sources well beyond the Neath. One of these compounds is only available from across the Unterzee. Other elements, however, remind me of the work of FF Gebrandt. That chemist, or one of her disciples[…]"
|Value 940 = {{EO|940}}
|Effect 940 = They are amused that you're doing this research. "What next? Are you going to synthesise Airag?" They make careful notes, all the same, and don't sample too much of the substance themselves.
|Value 950 = {{EO|950}}, {{EO|980}}
|Effect 950 = They do not come up with one single solution. They come up with dozens of variants, instead: fine gradations on the same formula, variant approaches that would yield minutely different results.
|Value 970 = {{EO|970}}
|Effect 970 = They have plucked some of the fine hairs off the egg with a pair of tweezers. It looks like they're trying to weave some kind of minuscule coat out of them.
|Value 990 = {{EO|990}}
|Effect 990 = Unable to do much with the tiny samples you have recovered, they are content to stare at them and make uncannily pertinent observations on your own work.
|Value 1010 = {{EO|1010 - 1040}}
|Effect 1010 = […]they give the impression of not working on the problem […] close their eyes and pluck a few repeated notes on a fiddle, until you are tempted to break the instrument[…]a few lines on a graph, a pair of equations. That is all. That is everything.
|Value 1050 = {{EO|1050}}
|Effect 1050 = They hypothesise a translation of the brickwork into a message in Assyrian. Then they interpret it as an equation expressing the relationship between a dead star and a live one. […]Even for them, this is not a straightforward puzzle.
|Value 1210 = {{EO|1210}}
|Effect 1210 = They take a keen interest in the microscopic evidence. They slice the sample thinly and put it under the lens; they diagram cells and locate the organs of growth and self-duplication.
|Value 1320 = {{EO|1320}}
|Effect 1320 = They attend carefully to the artefacts, and return with a carefully worked-out argument for date, material of manufacture, and likely geographical source.
|Value 1340 = {{EO|1340}}
|Effect 1340 = They attend carefully to the physical substance of the creature, and return with a compelling thesis for the sacral role it held within its original social context.
|Value 1350 = {{EO|1350}}
|Effect 1350 = [...] they lie down in a corner [...] and say nothing for an afternoon. Then they [...] suggest that there's bound to be a great deal more of this material [...] probably very valuable if one could get hold of it [...]

"Though I wouldn't count on that. There are old grudges [...]"
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