Embarking on a Voyage of Scientific Discovery (Guide)

Mid-Game Content

This is a guide for Embarking on a Voyage of Scientific Discovery and discovering islands in the Unterzee!

Why would you embark on a scientific journey?

• In order to regain access to the University if you're Unwelcome at the University -
• In order to make a Bifurcated Owl with certain Fate-locked stories
• To access 3 more destinations and a card across the Broad Unterzee
• Getting bones from Bullbone Island

In order to start the storyline, you'll need the following requirements:

• Watchful 120
• 2 x Book of Hidden Bodies
• 5 x Extraordinary Implication
• 1 x Blackmail Material
• Cultivating an Acquaintance with His Amused Lordship 3
• Associating with Radical Academics 3
• Featuring in the Tales of the University 30
• A Person of Some Importance -

You can play either A Sneering Gentleman and Set out on a Scientific Expedition in order to start. You will also meet some people in Bazaar Side-streets. Once done with this, you should head to your lodgings to do some preliminary research.

Preliminary Research

This may seem like a bad deal, but preliminary research can actually be pretty profitable. For reference, each scientific worth can be exchanged for up to 0.1 E worth of items in the right quantities.

Option	Requirement	Cost	Gain	Lucky (in addition)
Look at the current trend in Theosophistry	3 x Favours: Society	3 x Favours: Society	50 x TN
Find promising students	2 x Favours: Urchins 2 x Favours: The Church 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries	2 x Favours: Urchins 2 x Favours: The Church 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries	50 x CN 50 x AN 50 x TN	1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Pay someone else to research for you		80 x Memory of Distant Shores	50 x CN 50 x AN 50 x TN
Have instruments ground		1 x Whirring Contraption	50 x CN 50 x AN 50 x TN
Consult your current work		1 x Volume of Collated Research	40 x CN 40 x AN 40 x TN	1 x Memory of Distant Shores
Summarise your experiences in the Wars of Illusion	Embroiled in the Wars of Illusion 25	1 x Extraordinary Implication	35 x TN	20 x Cryptic Clue
Consult the Masters of the Bazaar	Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 3	Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 2 CP	100 x AN	3 x Maniac's Prayer
Trade in academic favours	Connected: Summerset 20 Connected: Benthic 20	Connected: Summerset 91-114 CP Connected: Benthic 91--114 CP	100 x CN
Examine your collection of curiosities		1 x Collection of Curiosities	150 x AN	1 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Test your Unearthly Fossil		1 x Unearthly Fossil	80 x CN 1 x Nodule of Warm Amber	4 x Nodule of Warm Amber

The easiest way to get a lot of research starts by using 3 Collated Research. This provides 120 of each type of research. It may also be worth it to spend Unearthly Fossils. Spending 3 fossils and 3 research lands you 360 Cryptonotes and 120 of the others. Make sure to choose either of the "Enough research" options, or you will not be able to travel to the islands.

Science on the islands

Some of the islands have special requirements or options that require the following:

• Screaming Map (for access to Grunting Fen)
• Palaeontologist and at least 20 x Survey of the Neath's Bones (for Horned Skulls on Bullbone Island)
• Renown: The Church 40 (+ 7 favours) for a renown item. (on Corpsecage Island)

Note that outfits are locked while on the three islands. You will want your Watchful gear.

In addition to the islands providing research, The Fleet of Truth is a card that can be drawn while zailing, which provides some progress to zailing, in addition to 5 pages of each type.

Bullbone Island

Option	Requirement	Gain
The bones of Bullbone	Orthos is Coming! < 4 (5 actions)	12 x CN or 4 x CN 1 x Horned Skull +2 CP OiC
Oho - a little writing	Orthos is Coming! 4-5 (6 actions)	13 x PN +2 CP OiC +1 CP Walking the Falling Cities
Creaking in the breeze	Orthos is Coming! = 6 (3 actions)	13 x CN +2 CP OiC +1 CP Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus
Search the island	Orthos is Coming! = 8 (1 action)	40 x TN 2 x Memory of Distant Shores OiC set to 9
Write up your notes	Orthos is Coming! = 9 (1 action)	150 x CN OiC set to 10
Total		249 x CN 40 x TN 78 x PN for 23 actions including actions for zailing directly to return

Corpsecage Island

Option	Requirement	Gain
Digging up bones and rough justice	Orthos is Coming! < 4 (5 actions)	12 x PN +2 CP OiC
Examine the ruins for clues	Orthos is Coming! 4-5 (6 actions)	13 x TN +2 CP OiC +1 CP Walking the Falling Cities
See what you can dig up	Orthos is Coming! = 6 (3 actions)	13 x PN +2 CP OiC +1 CP Walking the Falling Cities
Inauspicious iron	Orthos is Coming! = 8 (1 action)	40 x CN +1 CP Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus 10 x Nodule of Warm Amber OiC set to 9
Writing it all down	Orthos is Coming! = 9 (1 action)	150 x PN OiC set to 10
Total		40 x CN 78 x TN 249 x PN for 23 actions (including actions for zailing directly to return)

Grunting Fen

Option	Requirement	Gain
Listen to the island	Orthos is Coming! < 4	12 x TN +1 CP Touched by Fingerwork +2 CP OiC
What manner of things live here?	Orthos is Coming! 4-5	12 x CN +2 CP OiC +1 CP Touched by Fingerwork
What can you learn of matters spiritual and supernatural?	Orthos is Coming! = 6	13 x TN +2 CP OiC +1 CP Touched by Fingerwork
Catch some	Orthos is Coming! = 7	13 x CN +2 CP OiC
No more peculiar than anything else here	Orthos is Coming! = 8	40 x PN +1 CP Touched by Fingerwork OiC set to 9
Rich insights	Orthos is Coming! = 9	150 x TN OiC set to 10
Total		124 x CN 249 x TN 40 x PN for 23 actions (including actions for zailing directly to return)

Going for the money

Maybe you're not all that interested in Science? Here are the options that gather items instead! Options give 2 CP Orthos is Coming! unless otherwise stated.

Bullbone Island

Option	OiC	Gain
Wild bees	OiC < 4 (5 actions)	120 x Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax
Weasels about	Orthos is Coming! 4-5 (6 actions)	12 x Phosphorescent Scarab
Someone lives near the mandrake-copse	Orthos is Coming! = 6 (3 actions)	124 x Whispered Hint
Acquisition and screaming	Orthos is Coming! = 7 (4 actions)	126 x Shard of Glim
Looking up	Orthos is Coming! = 7 (4 actions)	126 x Moon-Pearl
Creeping closer	Orthos is Coming! = 8 (1 action)	2 x Aeolian Scream OiC set to 9
Making money	Orthos is Coming! = 9 (1 action)	1 x Deshrieked Mandrake 860 x Shard of Glim OiC set to 10
That enormous Glim-Shard	Orthos is Coming! = 9 (1 action)	1 x Shard of Glim the Size of a Small Child OiC set to 10
Total	23 actions (incl. local zee travel)	39.46 (1.72 EPA)

Corpsecage Island

Option	OiC	Gain
The Corpsecage bat	OiC < 4 (5 actions)	60 x Cryptic Clue
What's written here?	Orthos is Coming! 4-5 (6 actions)	61 x Cryptic Clue or 5 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Caging ancient echoes	Orthos is Coming! = 6 (3 actions)	62 x Primordial Shriek
Rummage around the fire	Orthos is Coming! = 7 (4 actions)	+1 x Prison Shiv (up to 1) +1 x Prisoner's Mask +77 x Jade Fragment +12 x Proscribed Material
A message long cold	Orthos is Coming! = 7 (4 actions)	+10 x Map Scrap +13 x Cryptic Clue
The zee-caves	Orthos is Coming! = 8 (1 action)	+125 x Proscribed Material OiC set to 9
In the bag you go	Orthos is Coming! = 9 (1 action)	+100 x Relic of the Third City +100 x Relic of the Fourth City OiC! to 10
Total	23 actions (incl. local zee travel)	42.08 (1.83 EPA)

Grunting Fen

Option	OiC	Gain
Do a survey	OiC < 4 (5 actions)	11 x Cryptic Clue 10 x Map Scrap
Try some beach-combing instead	Orthos is Coming! 4-5 (6 actions)	100 x Shard of Glim 1 x Phosphorescent Scarab 3 x Relic of the Fourth City
Follow the trail of history	Orthos is Coming! = 6 (3 actions)	2 x Memory of Distant Shores 13 x Cryptic Clue
How about we make this more... interesting?	Orthos is Coming! = 7 (4 actions)	228 x Piece of Rostygold
Go searching	Orthos is Coming! = 8 (1 action)	200 x Moon-Pearl 100 x Jade Fragment 200 x Shard of Glim OiC set to 9
Untapped wealth	Orthos is Coming! = 9 (1 action)	6 x Extraordinary Implication OiC! to 10
Total	23 actions (incl. local zee travel)	46.50 (2.02 EPA)

Organise your Research

Once you've completed at least one scientific expedition, a new storylet opens at your lodgings. The options at 120 notes gives you a memento of your work.

Option	Cost	Reward	Value (value per note)
Collate your cryptopalaeontological work	120 x Cryptonotes	3 x Volume of Collated Research Volume of your Cryptopalaeontological Work	7.5 (6.25 p)
Collate your prelapsarian archaeological work	120 x Archaeological Notes	3 x Volume of Collated Research Volume of your Prelapsarian Archaeological Work	7.5 (6.25 p)
Collate your research into Theosophistry	120 x Theosphistical Notes	3 x Volume of Collated Research Volume of your Theosophistical Work	7.5 (6.25 p)
Gather all your work into a library	250 x Theosphistical Notes 250 x Cryptonotes 250 x Archaeological Notes	Voluminous Library	N/A
Speak to professional persons with academic pretensions	500 x Archaeological Notes	4 x Uncanny Incunabulum	50 (10 p)
Sell your Theosophistical conclusions	500 x Theosphistical Notes	5 x Extraordinary Implication 50 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip 5 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844 1 x Confident Smile	50 (10 p)
Speak to naturalists, hunters and the breeders of monsters	500 x Cryptonotes	4 x Storm-Threnody	50 (10 p)
Re-establish your academic reputation	500 x Theosphistical Notes 500 x Cryptonotes 500 x Archaeological Notes	Removes Unwelcome at the University - Connected: Benthic +30 CP Connected: Summerset +30 CP	N/A
Breed a beast	Hound of Heaven Corresponding Ocelot Ocular Toadbeast Obdurate Stallion Slavering Dream-Hound 500 x Cryptonotes	Bifurcated Owl	Not relevant
Another round of preliminary research	50 x Theosphistical Notes 50 x Cryptonotes 50 x Archaeological Notes	Allows you to do preliminary research again	N/A