Resolve a paradox

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From: Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science

Is, Is-Not – the closer you look at that boundary, the thinner it gets.

Unlocked with Artisan Studies 2

Challenge information

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 5 (50% base)

• 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 2 - high-risk (20%)
• 3 - high-risk (30%)
• 4 - tough (40%)
• 5 - very chancy (50%)
• 6 - chancy (60%)
• 7 - modest (70%)
• 8 - very modest (80%)
• 9 - low-risk (90%)
• 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Boundaries

You ponder distance – namely, Zeno's old idea that it is impossible to traverse any […] at all. Is there a scale where space stops being continuous and becomes discrete? Does the universe move by steps – teeth on a ratchet, or squares on a chessboard?

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•  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

Artisan of the Red Science	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Laboratory Research	6	8	10	12	15	18	20	23	25	27	29	30	31	32	33	33	34	34	34

Rare Success

Pulling the thread

Does love have an integral? Hatred a limit? And if you pinned down those values, would you be yourself when you emerged from such computations?

Wiki note: Rare success chance is 5%.

•  You've gained x 1 Unwise Idea
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+6 CP)
•  You've gained (see success table) x Laboratory Research

Failure

That did not help

Two incomprehensible thoughts do not make clarity. They make a deeper, stranger confusion.

•  Nightmares is increasing… (+6 CP)
•  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

Artisan of the Red Science	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Laboratory Research	2	3	4	5	6	7	9	10	11	13