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From: Direct Your Own Research


You saw something relevant in an uncanny volume once. You know you did.

Game Instructions: This will exchange an Uncanny Incunabulum for 100 points of Research, or slightly more on a successful roll. One should use this approach only when one has a project requiring that level of insight, as any excess Research will be wasted.

Unlocked with Uncanny Incunabulum, Experimental Object 1001-1200


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 200

  • 137 - very chancy (41%)
  • 170 - chancy (51%)
  • 204 - modest (61%)
  • 237 - very modest (71%)
  • 270 - low-risk (81%)
  • 304 - straightforward (91%)
  • 334 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Which passage was it...

Here, almost on the back page, in pale blue ink, beneath a tabulation of figures. The implication is clear, which means... yes. This advances things significantly.


Failure

Slow to connect

You know there's something useful in here[…] When you finally track down the relevant sentences, they're scribbled in pencil on the flyleaf, and not part of the main text at all! […] you have what you need, even if it did take longer than you hoped.

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