Read your Uncanny Incunabula for guidance
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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
- 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.
Watchful is increasing…
You've lost 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum
You've gained 105 x Laboratory Research
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.
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Watchful is increasing…
You've gained 100 x Laboratory Research
You've lost 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum