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From: Engage in some Empirical Research

This is no time for timidity. This is vital, urgent Science.

Game Instructions: This will produce a fair amount of Research. Afterwards, you'll be out of supplies, and any other cards you're currently holding will be discarded.

Unlocked with Experimental Object, Equipment for Scientific Experimentation, No Longer Resupplying

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 250

• 171 - very chancy (41%)
• 213 - chancy (51%)
• 255 - modest (61%)
• 296 - very modest (71%)
• 338 - low-risk (81%)
• 380 - straightforward (91%)
• 417 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.

Success

Aha!

You consider everything: the supply of […]

When everything is ready – and everyone garbed in protective gear – you set the experiment in motion. […]

In the aftermath, you have disproven a theory that disagreed with yours […] it is definitely progress.

Description summary:
The nature of the supplies is determined by Experimental Object.

Experiment	Item
10	screams
40	bessemer steel
110, 120, 130	blades
140 - 160	invisible and almost insoluble bonds of debt, obligation and favours
210	mirrors of glass and polished metal
220	dig site diagrams
230 - 260	fragmentary maps and surveying equipment
310, 320, 350, 360	cogs and pinions
410, 430	raw goldfish
420	scarabs and legal briefs
440	chilled fish
470 - 495	fresh meat
510, 540	calipers
520, 530, 610	bone saws
810, 820	chisels
910 - 990	beakers
1010 - 1050	parchment sheets
1210	botanical drawings
1320, 1340, 1350	cleaning fluid
1610	models of dear little boats

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Your 'No Longer Resupplying' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x Unexpected Result
•  You've gained (12 + 2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
• This branch clears your hand. (hidden)

Rare Success

Lightly singed

Sometimes, in the pursuit of science, one must make sacrifices: Sleep, friendships, the comforting blanket of ignorance. And, in this case, eyebrows.

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Unwise Idea
•  Your 'No Longer Resupplying' Quality has gone!
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained (12 + 2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
•  You've gained 1 x Unexpected Result
• This branch clears your hand. (hidden)

Failure

Hmmm...

The testing apparatus splits down the middle, and a viscous liquid splatters half the lab. It burns, though not as badly as some you've known. This is some small comfort as you fumble for the baking soda.

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)