Dream Up A New Experiment
Note: the research options below only become accessible after the start of your Railway project.
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Game Instructions: If you have no experiment in progress, you can imagine and begin a new experiment here. You will then need to complete the experiment in your laboratory.
Unlocked with 
Discovered: a Non-Existent Block (hidden)
Storylet appears in 
Reflection of your Laboratory
Options:
Transpose the concepts of In and Out
- Spoiler Unlocked with
You know just enough to be dangerous. Why stop there? ( Base Artisan of the Red Science 5)
Locked with
Experimental Object, 
Artisan Studies
Success
Outsight
Success Instructions: This requires 200 Parabolan Research, as well as a substantial amount of research in your Laboratory.
You are devising a Paradoxical Inversion of Inside and Out. (Sets 
Experimental Object to 1030 - Paradoxical Inversion of Inside and Out)
An occurrence! Your 'Red Science Focus' Quality is now 1!
An occurrence! Your 'Total Lab Research Required' Quality is now 2500!
An occurrence! Your 'Total Parabolan Research Required' Quality is now 200!
Conclusion: Finish your Paradoxical Inversion of Inside and Out
^
Inquiry into the Filtration of Light
- Spoiler Unlocked with Artisan Studies exactly 1, Those who value safety over knowledge do not learn such things as you have come to know. ( Base Artisan of the Red Science 6)
Locked with Experimental Object
Success
Colours that are and colours that are not
Success Instructions: This requires 300
Parabolan Research, as well as a substantial amount of research in your Laboratory.
- You are now inquiring into the Filtration of Light (Sets Experimental Object to 1040 - Inquiry into the Filtration of Light)
- An occurrence! Your 'Red Science Focus' Quality is now 1!
Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
An occurrence! Your 'Correspondence Focus' Quality is now 1!- An occurrence! Your 'Total Lab Research Required' Quality is now 2700!
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Parabolan Research Required' Quality is now 300!
An occurrence! Your 'Parabolan Methods' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
Conclusion: Finish your Inquiry into the Filtration of Light
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Imagine a Device for Duplicating Bones
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Palaeontologist 5, Artisan of the Red Science, Artisan Studies 1
Locked with Experimental Object
Challenge information
Narrow,
Artisan of the Red Science 3 (50% base) || 0 - high-risk (20%) || 1 - high-risk (30%) || 2 - tough (40%) || 3 - very chancy (50%) || 4 - chancy (60%) || 5 - modest (70%) || 6 - very modest (80%) || 7 - low-risk (90%) || 8 and above - straightforward (100%)Success
An idea on the far side of sense
Success Instructions: This requires no more Parabolan Research than you have already done. The rest must be completed in your Laboratory.
Wiki note: The success instructions are a little misleading; you don't need Parabolan Research for this project at all.
- You are building a Device for the Duplication of Bones. (Sets Experimental Object to 360 - Device for the Duplication of Bones)
- You now have 1 x Red Science Focus
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Lab Research Required' Quality is now 500!
Conclusion: Complete and test the Device for the Duplication of Bones
Failure
Too much damage!
- Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
Imagine the Betrayal of Measurement
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Artisan Studies 2
Locked with Experimental Object
Challenge information
Narrow,
Artisan of the Red Science 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)Success
An idea on the far side of sense
Success Instructions: This requires 300 Parabolan Research, and another 300 in your Laboratory.
- You are building a Betrayer of Measures. (Sets Experimental Object to 350 - Betrayer of Measures)
- You now have 1 x Red Science Focus
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Lab Research Required' Quality is now 300!
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Parabolan Research Required' Quality is now 300!
- An occurrence! Your 'Parabolan Methods' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
Conclusion: Complete and test the Betrayer of Measures
Failure
Too much damage!
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Remember an image that has been nagging at you
- Spoiler Locked with
Experimental Object
Success
Detailed sketches
Success Instructions: You will need 15 Parabolan Research as well as your Laboratory Research to complete this project, so you may wish to do that here before returning to your Laboratory.
- You are now translating a pattern in the brickwork found by the Missing Block. (Sets Experimental Object to 1050 - Translation of a Pattern in the Bricks)
- An occurrence! Your 'Correspondence Focus' Quality is now 1!
- An occurrence! Your 'Red Science Focus' Quality is now 1!
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Lab Research Required' Quality is now 450!
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Parabolan Research Required' Quality is now 15!
Conclusion: Conclude your study of the mysterious brickwork
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Fantasize about an atlas of the Is-Not
- Spoiler Unlocked with
The Prestige of your Laboratory 20, 
Glasswork 7
Locked with Experimental Object
Success
Territories undreamt of
- You are putting together a set of Glass Gazettes. (Sets Experimental Object to 240 - Glass Gazette.)
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Lab Research Required' Quality is now 2500!
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Parabolan Research Required' Quality is now 65!
- You now have 1 x Parabolan Methods (hidden)
An occurrence! Your 'Expected Lab Reward Value' Quality is now 31250! (hidden)
Conclusion: How much research and how much dream?
^
The Coilheart Games
Investigate the properties of the Xanthous Bulb
- Spoiler Unlocked with
The Coilheart Games is 2 (World Quality, now locked), 
Xanthous Bulb, Of Stripes, and Coils 100-299, 
Coilheart Eagles 10
Locked with Experimental Object, 
Lead: Xanthous Law
Success
Motivated
- You're investigating the properties of the Eagle Clan's peculiar bulbs. (Sets Experimental Object to 1045 - Investigation into the Properties of a Xanthous Bulb)
- An occurrence! Your 'Red Science Focus' Quality is now 1!
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Lab Research Required' Quality is now 450!
- An occurrence! Your 'Total Parabolan Research Required' Quality is now 15!
- An occurrence! Your 'Parabolan Methods' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
- An occurrence! Your 'Expected Lab Reward Value' Quality is now 6250! (hidden)
Conclusion: Conclude your investigations in the Xanthous Bulb
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