Review the Prior Literature
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Description summary:
The description varies based on your 
Experimental Object.
| Experiment | Description |
|---|---|
| 40 | There is doubtless something useful in your collection of encyclopedias and reference works. |
| 130 - 160 | Your own collection covers encyclopedias of historical weaponry, armour, cannonry, and mobile battlefield inventions. For the more extensive and peculiar items, you may need to resort to the University's other libraries as well. |
| 230, 240, 260 | […] this is the shelf you're looking for. Every journal ever to have emerged from the Department of Neocartography. Several respected studies of Infernal Estates. A handwritten account of London's post-lapsarian street names, signed by a Doctor A. W. |
| 310, 320, 350, 360 | Your collection includes a number of works on engineering and mechanics, and a very very tiny pamphlet on Predominant Manufacturing Techniques of Rodent Engineers. |
| 410 - 470, 495 | If you peruse your own shelves, you may find something of value filed between Cryptology, Esoteric and Herpetology, Exotic. |
| 510, 520, 530, 540 | Your shelves are richly stocked with all the standard reference works on Cryptopalaeontology and Palaeomycology. |
| 820 | Your fellow researchers have, over the years, presented you with many beautifully bound proceedings from the university's conferences in Errant Geologies. |
| 920, 930, 950, 960, 965, 990 | Your chemical […] library incorporates works on Rarefactions both Venomous and Infernal. There is a shelf on Tonsorial Alchemy, and […] on the Transmutation of Lead into Slightly Paler Lead. There is even a rare […] copy of An Experimenter's Guide to Emetics. |
| 1010, 1030, 1040, 1045, 1050, 1070 | Your library includes a comprehensive study of Epigraphical Mathematics, complete with […] formulae. There are also several excellent monographs on Paradoxic Optics, and some works of Xenotheology that approach the territory of maths from the far side. |
| 1210 | Your botanical library is brief and terrifying, but it may nonetheless yield some insights, if it doesn't stain your fingers green first. |
| 1320, 1340, 1350 | You have a grand […] collection on all matters of antiquity and archaeology. Several tomes were borrowed permanently from the Department of Cryptospelunking […] during a period when the dean of that department was temporarily indisposed (by death). […] |
| 1610 | You do have a collection of journals on famous nautical voyages. Once merely shelf-filler, but now, at last their hour. Many, however, are preposterous. But perhaps a kernel of truth amidst the boats of lying colonels? |
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Game Instructions: Improving your Equipment will increase the amount of research you obtain from this card.
Unlocked with 
Equipment for Scientific Experimentation, 
Experimental Object, 
Total Lab Research Required 200
Locked with 
No Longer Reviewing Literature
Card drawn in 
University Laboratory (Place)
Occurs with Standard Frequency
Can not be discarded except by effects clearing your hand.
Options:
Read the canonical texts; make pertinent notes
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Equipment for Scientific Experimentation, Experimental Object
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 150 || 103 - very chancy (41%) || 128 - chancy (51%) || 153 - modest (61%) || 178 - very modest (71%) || 203 - low-risk (81%) || 228 - straightforward (91%) || 250 - straightforward (100%)Each point of
Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.
Success
Aha!
Watchful is increasing…
You've gained (4 + 
Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
You've gained 5 x Research Preparations
Rare Success
Carefully cited
Wiki note: Rare success chance is 20%.
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained (8 + Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
- You've gained 10 x Research Preparations
Failure
Hmmm...
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained ( Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
Chase down every last citation
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Equipment for Scientific Experimentation, Experimental Object
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 220 || 151 - very chancy (41%) || 187 - chancy (51%) || 224 - modest (61%) || 261 - very modest (71%) || 297 - low-risk (81%) || 334 - straightforward (91%) || 367 - straightforward (100%)Each point of
Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.
Success
Aha!
- Watchful is increasing…
You've gained 5 x Unlikely Connection- You've gained (4 + Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
Failure
Hmmm...
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained ( Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
Gather some unofficial literature
- Spoiler Unlocked with
5 x Incisive Observation
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 190 || 130 - very chancy (41%) || 162 - chancy (51%) || 194 - modest (61%) || 225 - very modest (71%) || 257 - low-risk (81%) || 289 - straightforward (91%) || 317 - straightforward (100%)Each point of
Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.
Success
You're learning
- Watchful is increasing…
You've lost 5 x Incisive Observation- You've gained (2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
- You've gained 5 x Unlikely Connection
Failure
Hmmm...
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained ( Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
Alternative Failure
A brain like molasses
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've gained 10 x Laboratory Research
Relate this problem to a past Enigma
- Spoiler Unlocked with
1 x Searing Enigma, Total Lab Research Required 500, Experimental Object 1001-1200
Locked with Laboratory Research (
Total Lab Research Required - 499)[1]
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 220 || 151 - very chancy (41%) || 187 - chancy (51%) || 224 - modest (61%) || 261 - very modest (71%) || 297 - low-risk (81%) || 334 - straightforward (91%) || 367 - straightforward (100%)Each point of
Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.
Success
Understand the enigmatic
- Watchful is increasing…
You've lost 1 x Searing Enigma- You've gained 500 (525 with
Correspondence Focus) x Laboratory Research 
You've gained 1 x Unavoidable Epiphany
This branch clears your hand. (hidden)
Failure
Costly progress
- Watchful is increasing…
- You've lost 1 x Searing Enigma
- You've gained 500 (525 with Correspondence Focus) x Laboratory Research
No more of this!
- Spoiler
Success
You've read enough
- An occurrence! Your 'No Longer Reviewing Literature' Quality is now 1!
- You've gained (8 + Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
- ↑ Game Tooltip: "This is locked because you need less than 500 Laboratory Research to complete your project."
