Card
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Option
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Research per Action
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Optimal?
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Form New Hypotheses 20%
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Review the possibilities
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13 LR
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✗
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Consider every possibility
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22 LR
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✓
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No more of this!
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15 LR
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Review the Prior Literature 10%
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Read the canonical texts; make pertinent notes
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12 LR
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✗
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Chase down every last citation
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22 LR
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✓
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Gather some unofficial literature
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22 LR
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$
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Relate this problem to a past Enigma
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270 Laboratory Research
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$$$
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No more of this!
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15 LR
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✓
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Engage in some Empirical Research 10%
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Perform a comparatively simple experiment
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18 LR
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✗
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Hook up all the meters and stand well back
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20 LR
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✓
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Refresh your Consumables 10%
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Work through a trusted intermediary
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23 LR
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✓
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Rely on illicit contacts
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14 LR
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✗
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Demand a delivery / Allow your possessions to propagate on your own / Appropriate whatever you need
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30 LR
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✓
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Unorthodox Methods 10%
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Use what you know of the Red Science
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✓
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Perform an experiment in Parabola
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Rearrange your brain around the problem
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Adopt a better frame of mind
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The Intrusion of a Thought 8%
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Any option
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17 - 102 LR
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Invoke the Long-Dead Priests 8%
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Phobophagic rites
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20 LR
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✓
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Directing your Team 8%
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Put them to work examining data
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33 LR
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✓
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Give them a line of inquiry to follow up on
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29 LR
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✗
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Coordinate a plan of research (No )
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20 LR
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✓
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Coordinate a plan of research ( )
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23 LR
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Give them a day off
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15 LR
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Take a day off
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22 LR
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Eureka! 8%
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Make a profound realisation
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39 LR
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✓
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Involve Your Secret College 5%
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Write to your Secret College for help
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22 LR
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✓
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Broaden your research
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20 LR
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Write Up Your Findings 5%
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Circulate a draft of your findings
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46 LR
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✓
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Organise your notes
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23 LR
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✗
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Running out of Steam 2%
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Go for a walk
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28 LR
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✓
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Brew another pot of tea
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19 LR
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✗
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Take an extended sabbatical
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39 LR
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✓
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Running out of Terms 2%
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Pull another alphabet off the shelf
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15 LR
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✗
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Combine Greek and Latin
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33 LR
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✓
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Rely on your Esurient Smith 10%
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See whether he has anything to offer
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12 LR
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✗
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Apply his particular expertise in a novel way
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24 LR
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✓
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Rely on his knowledge
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29 LR
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Have him collaborate with Lettice
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30 LR
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Have him supervise the Profound Student
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26 LR
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Rely on F.F. Gebrandt 10%
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Get her opinion on your research
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12 LR
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✗
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Apply her particular expertise in a novel way
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24 LR
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✓
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Rely on her knowledge of chemistry
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29 LR
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Let F.F. Gebrandt employ your Profound Student
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26 LR
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Rely on Cora Bagley 10%
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See whether she has anything to offer (Cora)
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12 LR
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✗
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Apply her particular expertise in a novel way
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24 LR
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✓
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Rely on her knowledge of numbers
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29 LR
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Have Cora supervise your Visionary Student
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26 LR
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Rely on April 10%
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Ask her to help with ordinary research
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12 LR
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✗
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Apply a particular expertise in a novel way
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24 LR
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✓
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Ask her to help with research into the Red Science
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29 LR
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Have her supervise the Profound Student
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26 LR
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Have her and Lettice work together
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25 LR
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Rely on the Numismatrix 10%
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Ask her to help with ordinary research
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12 LR
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✗
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Apply her particular expertise in a novel way
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24 LR
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✓
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Ask her to help with unusual research
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26 LR
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Ask for her special expertise on this project
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29 LR
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Rely on Hephaesta 10%
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Seek her research opinion
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12 LR
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✗
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Apply a particular expertise in a novel way
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24 LR
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✓
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Seek her insight on nautical matters / charting of geology and bone strata
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29 LR
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Seek her insight on maps
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29 LR
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Have Hephaesta supervise your Visionary Student
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26 LR
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Rely on Lettice, the Mercy 10%
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Ask her to help with ordinary research
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12 LR
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✓
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Apply her particular expertise in a novel way
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24 LR
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Have her supervise the Gifted Student
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26 LR
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Work with your Shifty Student 10%
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Work with your Expert Student
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13 LR
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✗
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Encourage your student to work with his colleagues
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15 LR
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✓
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Work with your Meticulous Student 10%
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Work with your expert student
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16 LR
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✗
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Follow up a hunch with your student
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22 LR
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✓
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Employ her help in tabulating some data
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19 LR
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Work with your Gifted Student 10%
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Work with your expert student
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19 LR
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✓
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Follow up a hunch with your student
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30 LR
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Work with your Profound Student 10%
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Work with your expert student
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21 LR
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✓
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Follow up a hunch with your student
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33 LR
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Work with your Visionary Student 10%
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Work with your expert student
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22 LR
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✗
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Follow up a hunch with your student
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32 LR
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✓
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Leave your student to their own devices
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27 LR
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Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science 8%
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Formulate a theory
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23 LR
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✓
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Resolve a paradox
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22 LR
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Contemplate your Impossible Theorem
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22 LR
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Contemplate your Element of Dawn
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18 LR
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✗
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Study the Blueprint for a Seal of Red Science / Recall the Blueprint for a Seal of Red Science
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22 LR
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Draw on your Knowledge of the Shapeling Arts 10%
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Extract regretful shapes from a Fluke-Core
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33 LR
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✓
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Meditate on your present shape
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23 LR
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✗
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Explore a divergent form
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25 LR
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✓
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Draw on your Knowledge of Poisons 10%
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Dose yourself
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27 LR
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✗
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Understand the toxins swimming in your veins
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27 LR
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✓
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Use what you know of the Second City
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25 LR
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Use your Cantigaster Venom in the process of studying
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34 LR
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✗
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Dose somebody else
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29 LR
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✓
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Draw on your Knowledge of Monsters 8%
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Apply your understanding of monsters
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29 LR
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✓
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Meditate on what it means to be monstrous
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34 LR
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Feed your Acute Squirrel a sample
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29 LR
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✗
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Draw on your nautical knowledge 8%
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Examine your past charts and logs
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29 LR
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✓
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Get help from Hephaesta
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34 LR
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Recall a recent zee-voyage
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34 LR
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