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ID: 8971

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From: Preparatory Research

You can't be expected to do all this work yourself. You should recruit assistants from the young, the worthy and the radical.

Game Instructions: This will significantly reduce your Favours. You can do this until you have 100 pages of each sort of research. To get more, you'll need to do field work.

Unlocked with 2 x Favours: Urchins, 2 x Favours: The Church, 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries

Locked with 100 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes, 100 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes, 100 x Page of Theosophistical Notes

Challenge information

A matter of luck: Pretty good odds (success chance: 80%)

Success

A tendency to gossip

They're an odd lot. You suspect there may be energetic disagreements on the voyage. But such things they know!

•  You've gained 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
• You've lost 2 x Favours: Urchins
• You've lost 2 x Favours: The Church
• You've lost 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes

Rare Success

A fortunate connection

This Unruly Curate has an uncle who's very glad to see him overseas for a while. You've made a friend today!

•  You've gained 1 x Favour in High Places
• You've lost 2 x Favours: Urchins
• You've lost 2 x Favours: The Church
• You've lost 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes

Failure

What could go wrong?

They're politically radical, theologically eye-opening and occasionally sticky-fingered. But they save you from having to polish your own theographites.

• You've lost 2 x Favours: Urchins
• You've lost 2 x Favours: The Church
• You've lost 2 x Favours: Revolutionaries
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
•  You've gained 50 x Page of Theosophistical Notes