Examine the contraption with your own two eyes

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From: Basalt, silence, dissolution


Gebrandt seems eager to begin her demonstration. Or to get it over with?

Unlocked with Mourners at an Exhibition exactly 1, Kataleptic Toxicology, Artisan of the Red Science


Challenge information

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 1 (50% base)

  • 0 - tough (40%)
  • 1 - very chancy (50%)
  • 2 - chancy (60%)
  • 3 - modest (70%)
  • 4 - very modest (80%)
  • 5 - low-risk (90%)
  • 6 and above - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 1 (50% base)

  • 0 - tough (40%)
  • 1 - very chancy (50%)
  • 2 - chancy (60%)
  • 3 - modest (70%)
  • 4 - very modest (80%)
  • 5 - low-risk (90%)
  • 6 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Indeed

The device, which seems to collect the stones' weeping through brass tubes and convey it (by capillary action?) to an internal reservoir, is indeed mostly a chemical contraption. But there are the unmistakeable signs of the Red Science in […] its parts […]

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Failure

Incomprehensible

There's something of the Correspondence to it – wouldn't be making your eyes water otherwise – but it is well-hidden, perhaps concealed beneath the sphinxstone that the machine is embedded into. It's hard to make out the intent of the design.
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