Examine the contraption with your own two eyes (Waswood)
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From: Basalt, silence, dissolution
Is what Gebrandt is saying true?
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 […] to an internal reservoir, is indeed mostly […]. But there are the unmistakeable signs of […] in the arrangement of its parts. If this machine is not designed to […], it is at the very least […].
Description summary:
You can tell that the device involves not only chemistry but also the Red Science, intended at least to work around a Law if not to break one outright.
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The scent of ozone in the air. (Sets 
Mourners at an Exhibition to 2)
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.
- The scent of ozone in the air. (Sets Mourners at an Exhibition to 2)
