Go for a walk (Fatigue)

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From: Running out of Steam

You'll benefit from spending some time outside. Well, in what passes for 'outside' in London.

Game Instructions: This can have a variety of positive effects, but it will always clear your hand.

Challenge information

A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 50%)

Success

An idea emerges

Your stroll takes you out of the University and onto the streets of Veilgarden, where you let your mind wander away from your experiment – until you see what that urchin is doing with the trussed-up blemmigan and the stolen phial of smelling salts.

•  An occurrence! Your 'No Longer Fatigued' Quality is now 1!
•  You've gained 1 x Unwise Idea
•  You've gained (18 + 3 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
• This branch clears your hand. (hidden)

Alternative Success

Perchance to dream

When you return to the laboratory holding a half-eaten bag of Rubbery Lumps, you find your mind cleared, somewhat. Ingrained habits and preconceptions no longer cloud your vision. New possibilities open up before you.

•  An occurrence! Your 'No Longer Fatigued' Quality is now 1!
•  You've gained 5 x Unlikely Connection
•  You've gained (5 + 2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
• This branch clears your hand. (hidden)

Failure

Recovery

It's shocking what a good, long walk and a bag of Rubbery Lumps will do for one's constitution. Less for the health of your sleeves, and digestion. But those are paltry concerns in the face of scientific endeavour.

•  Wounds is dropping… (-5 CP)
•  An occurrence! Your 'No Longer Fatigued' Quality is now 1!
•  You've gained (5 + 2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
• This branch clears your hand. (hidden)

Alternative Failure

Aha!

For a few blissful hours, you allow yourself not to think about your experiment. When you return, you find that a thought, long-gestating in your mind, had found the space to emerge from its chrysalis.

•  An occurrence! Your 'No Longer Fatigued' Quality is now 1!
•  You've gained 1 x Unavoidable Epiphany
•  You've gained (5 + 2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
• This branch clears your hand. (hidden)