Chase down every last citation
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From: Review the Prior Literature
It's shocking how many assertions in modern scientific texts can be traced back to some 18th-century gentleman farmer in Ipswich.
Game Instructions: You will always make some research progress. Success will give you more Research, and Unlikely Connections that can be spent to allow experts to work effectively outside their normal fields of study.
Unlocked with 
Equipment for Scientific Experimentation, 
Experimental Object
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
Aha!
You traverse the web of citations and references – noting the sources that seem unreliable [...]. It's meticulous [...] work, and it takes you far afield from where you began. But sometimes that's where one finds the treasures that no one else has seen.
Watchful is increasing…
You've gained 5 x Unlikely Connection
You've gained (4 + 
Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
Failure
Hmmm...
Hours later, you realise that you are reading from F. v. d. Sloot's Comprehensive Guide to Wax-Encased Cheeses and their Manufacture, Revised Sixth Edition. Perhaps there's such a thing as too thorough.
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained ( Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
