Apply his particular expertise in a novel way
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From: Rely on your Esurient Smith
You've found a corner of your work where his obsessions may take root.
Game Instructions: This will use an Unlikely Connection to generate a substantial amount of research.
Unlocked with 
1 x Unlikely Connection, 
Experimental Object 1 - 100, 201 - 300 or 400+
Challenge information
- 151 - very chancy (41%)
- 187 - chancy (51%)
- 224 - modest (61%)
- 261 - very modest (71%)
- 297 - low-risk (81%)
- 334 - straightforward (91%)
- 367 - straightforward (100%)
Each point of 
Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.
Success
Interesting
[First passage] The Smith stitches together a quilt of disparate facts and pareidolia. But out of his notes you are able to extricate some useful knowledge.
Description summary:
The text here varies based on the current 
Experimental Object.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
| Experimental Object | Description |
|---|---|
| 260, ? | Seven streets converge in Spite to form Flowerdene Market, though one is hidden, and another is not spoken of if one knows what's good for them. |
| 540 | No living thing has seven legs, seven eyes, or seven heads. No living thing. |
| 940, ? | In classical antiquity, seven metals were known to scholars and craftspeople – gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury. |
| 1010, 1020, 1050, ? | The Correspondence has many sigils and radicals that can express […] seven: A numeral, a word, a modifier, a warning, a greeting, a farewell, or an epitaph. |
Watchful is increasing…
You've lost 1 x Unlikely Connection
You've gained (7 + 2 × 
Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
You've gained 1 x Unexpected Result
Failure
Distracted
The Smith reads through the references you point out to him and, somehow, connects them back to forbidden texts that he's already read cover to cover, upside down, and backwards. He reads them again for good measure. It is not a productive afternoon.
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've lost 1 x Unlikely Connection
- You've gained (5 + 2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
Categories:
- Pages Without Guide Restrictions
- Unlikely Connection
- Experimental Object
- Watchful Challenge
- Research Preparations
- Research Preparations Formula Uses
- Actions
- Experimental Object Text Uses
- Unlikely Connection Loss
- Laboratory Research Gain
- Equipment for Scientific Experimentation
- Equipment for Scientific Experimentation Formula Uses
- Unexpected Result Gain
