Ask/Against

This page lists all challenges against Artisan of the Red Science, and their default challenge level (if known).

(

• (Carefully) Examine an Unlawful Device (5)

  An Action from Continue writing your Monograph, a Storylet in The Archaeological Institute.

A

• Aid the efforts of the Creditor (7)

  An Action from Mouths to Feed, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Appeal to the generosity of space (9)

  An Action from 'No way! There's no way!', a Card in Wayland's Teeth.

• Attempt to break into a strongbox (10)

  An Action from Lowell's Locks and Cages (Card), a Card in Fallen London.

• Attempt to escape from a cage (12)

  An Action from Lowell's Locks and Cages (Card), a Card in Fallen London.

B

• Bend space to your will (5)

  An Action from Racing through the Hinterlands (Storylet), a Storylet in A train going imprudently fast.

C

• Cheat (The Mind of London) (10)

  An Action from Reach Out to the Mind of London, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Co-author another paper (6)

  FATE

  An Action from An Evening with your Spouses, a Card in Fallen London.

• Compose a nostalgic ode (0)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Consult texts of a speculative science (10)

  An Action from Liminal Studies (Storylet), a Storylet in Jericho Locks.

• Consult with the Smouldering Lexicographer (5)

  FATE

  An Action from Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Consummate a long-awaited agreement (-1)

  An Action from Spiralhügel, a Card in A Neon Future.

• Contemplate your Element of Dawn (5)

  An Action from Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Contemplate your Impossible Theorem (3)

  An Action from Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Crack open the Sounder and capture its operating principle (10)

  An Action from Your Corresponding Sounder, an Item in your inventory.

• Craft a set of defensive glyphwork (10)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

D

• Decipher the signage (3)

  An Action from Spiralhügel, a Card in A Neon Future.

• Defend a client with applied counterepistolography (0)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Defuse a dangerous experiment (10)

  An Action from Troubled Times Recur, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Design a skin-safe tattoo (0)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Discover its age and its kinship to stars (7)

  An Action from The Creditor's Own Flesh, a Storylet in Moloch Street.

• Duplicate the Vake's skull and use it to decorate your (Skeleton Type) (5)

  Ambition: Bag a Legend!

  An Action from Assemble a Skeleton, a Storylet in The Bone Market.

• Duplicate the skull of John the Baptist, if you can call that a skull (5)

  An Action from Assemble a Skeleton, a Storylet in The Bone Market.

• Duplicate your own skull and affix it here (5)

  An Action from Assemble a Skeleton, a Storylet in The Bone Market.

E

• Encase yourself in a fortified bubble of time (10)

  An Action from Reach out to the mind of the city, a Storylet in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Engineer a flying contraption (10)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Examine the contraption with your own two eyes (Waswood) (1)

  An Action from Basalt, silence, dissolution (Waswood), a Storylet in The Waswood.

• Examine the plans for the device (The Waswood) (3)

  An Action from A Conclave of the Masters, Hastily Assembled (The Waswood), a Storylet in Fallen London.

• Examine the plans for the device (The Waswood, Building) (3)

  An Action from Building a Parabolan Device, a Storylet in The Waswood.

• Export the Skeleton of a Neathy Bird (7)

  An Action from The Dumbwaiter of Balmoral, a Storylet in Balmoral.

F

• Fight back! (6)

  An Action from A Corsair Galley, a Card in Shepherd's Wash.

• Finish your work resizing a human ribcage using the Red Science (5)

  An Action from Assess your Progress regarding the (Project Name), a Storylet in University Laboratory (Place).

• Finish your work resizing a warbler skeleton using the Red Science (5)

  An Action from Assess your Progress regarding the (Project Name), a Storylet in University Laboratory (Place).

• Follow one thread to the end (9)

  An Action from Unravelling (Card), a Card in A Manifold Future.

• Forge original connections (2)

  An Action from Liminal Studies (Storylet), a Storylet in Jericho Locks.

• Formulate a theory (4)

  An Action from Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

H

• Help a client forge a contract (4)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

I

• Imaginatively rectify her skull (5)

  An Action from Furnace Recuperating, a Storylet in Station VIII.

• Imagine a Device for Duplicating Bones (3)

  An Action from Dream Up A New Experiment, a Storylet in Reflection of your Laboratory.

• Imagine the Betrayal of Measurement (5)

  An Action from Dream Up A New Experiment, a Storylet in Reflection of your Laboratory.

K

• Keep Cornelius just where he is (7)

  An Action from several places.

L

• Listen closely to a Night-Whisper (8)

  An Action from The Upper Castle, a Storylet in Adulterine Castle.

M

• Maintain your calm (0)

  Ambition: Light Fingers!

  An Action from Light Fingers: A Difficult Labour, a Storylet in Parabolan Base-Camp.

• Make unbidden speculative leaps (10)

  An Action from Liminal Studies (Storylet), a Storylet in Jericho Locks.

• Manufacture a quantum of transposed time (Waswood) (0)

  An Action from Rotation and Translation (Waswood), a Storylet in The Waswood.

• Measure the measureless (10)

  An Action from A Distant Gleam, a Card in The Salt Steppe.

O

• Operate from first principles (12)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

P

• Perform an odontographic augmentation (12)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Play an entirely different game as Mr Cards (8)

  An Action from Cards in the Cold, a Storylet in The Hurlers.

• Point a telescope eastward (7)

  An Action from Travelling through the Air, a Storylet in The Upper Airs.

• Propose a Red Science solution that would remove the anomalous block (5)

  An Action from Convene a Board Meeting of the Great Hellbound Railway, a Storylet in Moloch Street.

• Provide the city with seismic defences (7)

  An Action from The Creditor's Grievances, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Pursue truths through the Red Science (5)

  An Action from Read the Books that Others Cannot, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

R

• Recall the Blueprint for a Seal of Red Science (5)

  FATE

  An Action from Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Reshape the boundaries of sight (10)

  An Action from Developing Infrastructure, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Resolve a paradox (5)

  An Action from Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Restore a palimpsest from the Library at Jericho (4)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

S

• Safely dispose of a cold word (10)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Study convolutions of space (9)

  An Action from Shifting Streets (Storylet), a Storylet in Fallen London.

• Study the Blueprint for a Seal of Red Science (5)

  FATE

  An Action from Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Surprise them with a boot in the fundament (5)

  An Action from Intervene in a Dockers' Brawl, a Storylet in The Blind Helmsman.

T

• Tempt the city closer to Hell (7)

  An Action from Hauling the City Out, a Storylet in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Translate a Möbius text (10)

  An Action from The Business of a Correspondent, a Storylet in Your Activities.

U

• Undertake a course in the Red Mathematics (10)

  An Action from Reach out to the mind of the Creditor, a Storylet in Fallen London.

• Use what you know of the Red Science (7)

  An Action from Unorthodox Methods, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Use your knowledge of the Red Science to improve the miners' pump (8)

  An Action from High Tide in The Poisoned Pawn, a Storylet in Port Cecil.

~

• Examine the contraption with your own two eyes (1)

  RETIRED F.F. Gebrandt's Prelapsarian Exhibition

  An Action from Basalt, silence, dissolution, a Storylet in The Museum of Prelapsarian History.

• Contemplate the viability of the eye (3)

  RETIRED The London Horticultural Show

  An Action from In Sight, a Storylet in Castles in the Ceiling.

• Examine the plans for the device (3)

  RETIRED Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out

  An Action from Building a Device, a Storylet in Fallen London.

• Examine the plans for the device (Conclave) (3)

  RETIRED Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out

  An Action from A Conclave of the Masters, Hastily Assembled, a Storylet in Fallen London.

• Use what you know of the unknowable (5)

  RETIRED

  An Action from Direct Your Own Research, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Speculate (5)

  RETIRED

  An Action from Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Employ forbidden horticultural techniques (8)

  RETIRED The London Horticultural Show

  An Action from In the Glasshouse, a Storylet in Fallen London.