The Means to Knowledge
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Unlocked with a redirect from Associate yourself with a different philosophy, or while Making Your Name
Storylet appears in 
Ladybones Road
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Publish a monograph on obscure scientific minutiae
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Subtle 4, 
50 x Cryptic Clue, 
100 x Silk Scrap, 
Identified with a Philosophy: [The Legacy of the Anchoress, The Unconfined, The Implacable Method, or Your Own Genius]
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
High recommendation
You are most often associated with the Implacable Method. (Sets 
Identified with a Philosophy: to 3 - The Implacable Method)
Watchful is increasing…
Subtle is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
Forceful is dropping… (-3 CP)
Making Waves is increasing… (+2-6 CP) [a variable amount - not sure about the range]
Suspicion is dropping… (-3 CP)
You've gained 5? x Compromising Document
You've lost 50 x Cryptic Clue
You've lost 100 x Silk Scrap
Failure
The merciless market
- Watchful is increasing…
Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
Publicly defend a liberator of books
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Ruthless 4, 
4 x Tale of Terror!!, Identified with a Philosophy: [The Legacy of the Anchoress, The Unconfined, The Implacable Method, or Your Own Genius]
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
KNOWLEDGE MUST BE FREE.
- Watchful is increasing…
- You are most often associated with the Unconfined. (Sets Identified with a Philosophy: to 2 - The Unconfined)
Daring is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)- Subtle is dropping… (-3 CP)
- Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)
- Making Waves is increasing… (+1-7 CP)
You've lost 4 x Tale of Terror!!
Failure
Waking the wrong sort
^
Edit a book of meditations on the Anchoress
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Magnanimous 4, 
1 x Vision of the Surface, 
200 x Foxfire Candle Stub, Identified with a Philosophy: [The Legacy of the Anchoress, The Unconfined, The Implacable Method, or Your Own Genius]
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
A saving grace
- You are most often associated with the Legacy of the Anchoress. (Sets Identified with a Philosophy: to 1 - The Legacy of the Anchoress)
- Watchful is increasing…
- Making Waves is increasing… (+1-2 CP) (a variable amount - not sure about the range)
Scandal is dropping… (-3 CP)
Magnanimous is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
Melancholy is dropping… (-3 CP)
You've lost 200 x Foxfire Candle Stub
Failure
Beyond redemption
^
You adhere to no one philosophy – and you'll make that clear to all
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Daring 4, 
4 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip, Identified with a Philosophy: [The Legacy of the Anchoress, The Unconfined, or The Implacable Method]
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 50 || 35 - very chancy (42%) || 43 - chancy (51%) || 51 - modest (61%) || 60 - very modest (72%) || 68 - low-risk (81%) || 76 - straightforward (91%) || 84 - straightforward (100%)Success
The savagery of academia
- Your methods are your own! You reject all labels and associations. (Sets Identified with a Philosophy: to 100 - Your Own Genius)
- Watchful is increasing…
- Daring is increasing… (+3 CP, up to level 10)
- Subtle is dropping… (-3 CP)
- Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
- Making Waves is increasing… (+1 CP)
- You've gained 5? x Tale of Terror!!
You've lost 4 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Failure
A complete misinterpretation
- Watchful is increasing…
- Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
