Review the possibilities

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From: Form New Hypotheses

What questions are there to answer about this subject?

Game Instructions: Besides Research, this will generate Research Preparations that will make other Watchful checks in the lab easier, for the duration of this experiment.

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

Thoughtfully prepared

You write down a few distinct possibilities and lines of inquiry: [varies]

Description summary:
Part of the description varies based on your Experimental Object.

Experiment	Description
40	What kind of engine design would it employ? What is the most efficient type of coal tender?
130	What materials are most suitable? How thick must the barrel be to contain the pressure of firing?
140 - 160	What materials are most suitable? What blade shape ensures maximum effectiveness?
230, 240, 260	How reliable are the maps and charts you have gathered? What can we truly infer about the territory from reading them?
310, 320, 350, 360	What materials will you need? What are the manufacturing tolerances?
410 - 470, 495	How can its anatomy be classified? How would one go about physical examination? How to best keep it contained?
510, 520, 530	How old is it? What kind of animal did it belong to?
540	How long can it be stretched? Will it shatter, or simply melt?
820	What geological strata does it come from? What is its chemical composition?
920, 930, 950, 990	What are the practical considerations of manufacture? Will the process work economically with larger batches?
1010, 1030, 1040, 1045, 1050	What are the boundaries of the possible? Which Laws must be observed? Which can be split apart?
1210	Where does it come from? How does it grow? How does it survive in the absence of sunlight?
1320, 1340	Who made it? Out of what? For what purpose?
1350	What if the cuirass had the power to make the wearer obedient to the Sun?
1610	What can survive the ruddy waters of Hell? What can get to the zee with speed, and survive the trip unscathed?

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• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained (4 + Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
•  You've gained 5 x Research Preparations

Rare Success

Aha!

In your pondering, you hit upon a particularly insightful question – one that, to your best knowledge, no one else has dared to ask.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained (8 + Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
•  You've gained 20 x Research Preparations
•  You've gained 1 x Unwise Idea

Failure

Hmmm...

You scowl at the paper. It remains stubbornly blank. By the time you have a thought, the inkwell has gone dry.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained ( Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research