Look closely at your current project
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From: Work with your Equipment
You invested in these materials, after all.
Game Instructions: The more Equipment you have, the greater the value of your research will be. You will always make at least some progress here. Success will get you an Unexpected Result.
Unlocked with 
Experimental Object, 
Equipment for Scientific Experimentation 1
Challenge information
- 137 - very chancy (41%)
- 170 - chancy (51%)
- 204 - modest (61%)
- 237 - very modest (71%)
- 270 - low-risk (81%)
- 304 - straightforward (91%)
- 334 - straightforward (100%)
Each point of 
Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.
Success
Aha!
[See table below.]
Description summary:
 Experiment | Description |
|---|---|
| 10 | The Correspondence Sigils that specify the function of the Bomb are written in mirror-writing. |
| 20 | There are telltale chips in the surface. Scratches. Significant marks. Or has it just not been cleaned well enough? |
| 30 | The letters are unfamiliar, and so is the pattern of scales. |
| 40 | Some details of the blueprints that hadn't made sense until now. |
| 110 | The blade you are working looks old even though you are making it now. Hold it to the mirror, and the reflection looks brand new. Time is treacherous. |
| 120, 130 | This could be made more lethal to the victim, and less dangerous to the person wielding it. |
| 140 - 160 | The Principle's debts are binding upon the gifts bestowed upon the body of the Principle, which in Parabola is congruent with its personhood. But should those gifts be themselves altered, would the debts not be paid? |
| 210 | If a mirror frame is deformed just so, but not broken, in the presence of a live cat, while all light is excluded, then... yes. This is suggestive. Insufficient, but suggestive. |
| 220 - 250 | Under magnification, this drawing looks much less like furious cross-hatching and much more like a street map. |
| 260 | Here's a note in your logs about a brighter-than-usual alignment of false-stars. Here's a sketch of an odd rock formation dangling from the ceiling. |
| 310 | The principles behind the design of a Whirring Contraption can be scaled up to good purpose. |
| 320, 330, 350, 360 | Besides the Brass, the machine uses joy-sensitive alloys in several places. |
| 410 | Aim a beam of light straight into the middle of the animal, the twisted centre where a body should be and isn't. The bit you can't really look at. And then measure how that light fractures and scatters away. |
| 420 - 440, 460, 465 | Note behaviour. Chart food consumption. Track apparent mood. |
| 450 | You don't understand how the ligneous bones form a viable skeleton, but you will. |
| 470 | Some test subjects barely react to the drug. Others are very responsive. You will discover why. |
| 480, 490 | Measure diameter. Test shell thickness. Submerge in a barrel and observe how bubbles form on the surface. |
| 485 | Measure diameter. Test membrane flexibility. Submerge in a barrel and observe how it makes the water look somehow deeper. |
| 495 | Track pulse rate and blood loss. Note the light dispersion from the diamond. |
| 510 | You measure the length and sharpness of the thorns, and note their composition. Not only ordinary bone; this is resilient and very sharp even after ageing. |
| 520, 530 | If you place the Betrayer incorrectly, the wrong parts of the torso grow; or they shrink instead of expanding; or the resizing is inconsistent. Time of day and duration of exposure matter more than one might think. |
| 540, 610 | Is it still entirely bone, or is it bone that has been replaced by rock? What is this scoring at one end? The correct chemicals are very informative. |
| 810 | There are telltale chips in the surface. Scratches. Significant marks. Or has it just not been cleaned well enough? |
| 820 | With the right reagents, you can make a guess at the mineral composition of the stone, and make an educated estimate at where in the Neath it might have come from. |
| 830 | The liquid catches the light in particular ways; it is very faintly iridescent. |
| 910 | With the right reagents, you can make a guess at the effects […] It becomes rapidly apparent that the selection of perfume has effects beyond the aesthetic. You will, hopefully, regrow your eyebrows. But in the meantime, your forehead smells delightful. |
| 920, 930 | This reagent fizzes; that one glows an outraged shade of apocyan before going dark. |
| 940 | Carefully sifting distinguishes the different components, as the scintillack grinds finer than any other ingredient. |
| 950 | With the right lenses and the aid of a furnace, you sear away the scarlet attar into its component dusts. Vapours rise from the attar, heady as perfume and thick as strangling death. |
| 970 | You scrape samples off the shell, fill test tubes with some of the fine hairs to examine their chemical composition. Is it toxic? Reactive? Flammable? |
| 980 | The material is quite hard, and difficult to take samples of with a scribing tool. The engraved words keep staring at you: "ONE DAY YOU WILL FORGIVE." |
| 990 | The tears are unusually reactive – not in the chemical sense, but in the sense that they squirm in their vials, trying to escape or responding to the quality of the light. |
| 1010 - 1045 | Two pages of notes, and when you get to the bottom it's all pure swearing. |
| 1050 | If you interpret the redder bricks as significant and the paler bricks as gaps, does it look like a sign? |
| 1210 | Fill flask after flask with reagents. Heat them, cool them, feed them to small animals. Take copious notes. You are getting somewhere, slowly. |
| 1320 | Sketch all the artefacts at your disposal, and arrange them according to their size and style, material and degree of wear, their find locations... |
| 1340 | Take full account of its dimensions and motility. Document every mark upon its surface, be that incidental chip or fragmentation, or the intentional designs of ornament or writing. |
| 1350 | Scrub any incidental dirt off [...] Study the signs of damage as well as [...] intentional markings. Identify the materials used in the straps, the padding, the stitching. Note the way the sun-blazon flares under your touch; how it wakens a furious indignation. |
| 1610 | You've searched any number of books, but new terms to look up continue to occur. |
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Watchful is increasing…
You've gained 1 x Unexpected Result
You've gained 6 + (1.25 × 
Equipment level) x Laboratory Research
Failure
Hmmm...
It's slow work, but you make progress eventually. [See table above.]
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained (4 + Equipment level) x Laboratory Research
