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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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• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

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

${\frac {\mathrm {Eq} }{9}}\times \left[5+{\frac {35}{1+e^{-{\frac {1}{2}}\cdot (\mathrm {ASotC} -12)}}}\right]$

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

Equipment 4

ASotC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Research	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	5	6	8
ASotC	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Research	10	12	14	15	16	17	17	17	17	18

Equipment 7

ASotC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Research	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	7	9	11	14
ASotC	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Research	17	21	24	26	28	29	30	30	31	31

Equipment 9

ASotC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Research	5	5	5	6	6	7	8	9	11	14	18
ASotC	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Research	22	27	31	34	36	37	38	39	39	40

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.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Unwise Idea
•  You've gained (see above formula) x Laboratory Research

Failure

Singed

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

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained (see above formula) x Laboratory Research