Engage the Infamous Mathematician in conversation

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From: A Meeting at the Ball


Tall and relentlessly confident; lighthouse-like. Wasn't she supposed to be imprisoned?


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 120

  • 82 - very chancy (41%)
  • 102 - chancy (51%)
  • 122 - modest (61%)
  • 142 - very modest (71%)
  • 162 - low-risk (81%)
  • 182 - straightforward (91%)
  • 200 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A balanced equation

Few dare engage her in conversation[…]about quaternions or the equations of the Red Science.[…]conjuring up images of dancing vectors and capering functions.

[…]the Roguish Semiotician stays in her orbit[…]pay the two of them a visit at the University[…].

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Failure

Confusion

You try to engage her in conversation, but find yourself quickly unable to keep up. She's talking about quaternions. Is she trying to confound you?