Consider every possibility

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From: Form New Hypotheses


No idea too foolish!

Game Instructions: Success will give you Unlikely Connections that can be spent to allow experts to work outside their normal fields of study.

Unlocked with Equipment for Scientific Experimentation, Experimental Object


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 180

  • 123 - very chancy (41%)
  • 153 - chancy (51%)
  • 183 - modest (61%)
  • 213 - very modest (71%)
  • 244 - low-risk (81%)
  • 273 - straightforward (91%)
  • 300 - straightforward (100%)

Each point of Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.

Success

Aha!

You write down all the possibilities, even the absurd ones. What if Stilton were the key to the whole affair? What might the Third City have to do with it?

Description summary:
Part of the description varies based on your Experimental Object. The text above is the generic result[1]; objects with more specific results are listed below.

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  1. Used for objects 130, 150, 160, 350, 360, 430, 440, 450, 460, 465, 470, 520, 530, 540, 820, 920, 930, 950, 990, 1010, 1030, 1040, 1050, 1210, 1320
Experimental ObjectQuestion
40Could you use a Stirling engine to recapture lost heat and eliminate the need for fuel? What if there's no such a thing as 'velocity' and it's all an optical illusion?
140What if the Principle was given a reflection. The original could be freed, the reflection bound by its debts?
230What if mapping is forbidden because the streets objected to being so simply described?
240Could Parabola be a map of itself? Each square an image of the whole?
310What if Polythremic clay could be baked into an exceptionally hard and robust, but still living, material?
320What if Nevercold Brass is allergic to other metals?
410What if the Albatross reached Parabola by passing through a twisted mirror that permanently reshaped its form on the far side?
420What if the Warbler were created by putting an ordinary bird in the centre of a seven-fold mirror box?
495What if rhinestone were, in this instance, more powerful than diamond?
510What if this animal was originally a rose?
1340What if the ushabti emits some form of confounding gas that merely makes you think that it's animate?
1350What if the cuirass had the power to make the wearer obedient to the Sun?


Failure

Hmmm...

You scowl at the paper. It remains stubbornly blank. By the time you have a thought, the inkwell has gone dry.