Discover what is mandated

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From: Read the Books that Others Cannot


Mere descriptive research, however accurate, is still more fallible than law.

Game Instructions: Better Equipment and higher Scholar of the Correspondence will improve the rewards here. You will always receive at least some research.

Unlocked with 1 x A Pot of Violant Ink


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 175

  • 120 - very chancy (41%)
  • 149 - chancy (51%)
  • 178 - modest (61%)
  • 208 - very modest (71%)
  • 237 - low-risk (81%)
  • 266 - straightforward (91%)
  • 292 - straightforward (100%)

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

Success

Experimental Lexicography

Some sigils are known and frequently attested. Some can be guessed […] Some are hapax legomena, seen once in the corpus and never again. And some marks can only be definitely identified as Correspondence when you write them […] and discover that they burn.

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The Laboratory Research gain is logistic with ASotC as the input and scaled by Equipment:

Click here to see the exact research gains for Equipment 4, 7 and 9, or use the calculator for other values.

Equipment 4

ASotC1234567891011
Research22233334568
ASotC12131415161718192021
Research10121415161717171718

Equipment 7

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Research4444556791114
ASotC12131415161718192021
Research17212426282930303131

Equipment 9

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Research55566789111418
ASotC12131415161718192021
Research22273134363738393940

Rare Success

What may be

The Correspondence encodes what Is, and cuts away false propositions. But it is difficult not to notice the edges of the language – the radicals and diacritics that imply, subtly, what May Be.


Failure

Singed

You might never get used to the burning. The scars may never fully heal.