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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

Broad, Watchful 220

• 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 first passage varies with the Experimental Object.

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Experiment	Research Description
230, 240, 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.
410, 420, 450, 460, 470, 480, 485, 495, 510, 520, 530, 540, 610, ?	No living thing has seven legs, seven eyes, or seven heads. No living thing.
810, 820, 930, 940, 950, 960, ?	In classical antiquity, seven metals were known to scholars and craftspeople – gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, and mercury.
40, 1010, 1020, 1030, 1040, 1045, 1050, 1320, 1340, 1350, 1610, ?	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.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• 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