University Laboratory (Place)

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This location has a card deck. Click the deck to see it.

See Category:University Laboratory (Place) for cards or storylets that are found in this place or location.

See Category:University Laboratory (Place) Moves for actions that change player location to this location.

Unlocked with Your Own Lab

Main Quality: Watchful

Neither the Bazaar nor any other market is accessible in this location.

Deck

• Card deck: Cards - University Laboratory (Place)
• The deck in this location is unlimited. You do not need to wait to draw a new card.
• The hand size in this location is always 3, regardless of your Lodgings.
  

Wiki note: This does not actually exist as a distinct location in-game - it is how The University appears in the setting Science Laboratory.

Managing Lab Facilities

• Improve Your Equipment: Upgrade the Laboratory story quality.
• Adjust the Staffing of your Lab: After achieving any non-zero level of The Prestige of your Laboratory
• Manage the Students in your Laboratory: After graduating the first Shifty Student
• Leave your Lab (without Base-Camp): Return to The University.
• Leave your Lab (with Base-Camp): Return to The University or go to the Reflection of your Laboratory

Conducting Scientific Investigations

• Begin a Scientific Investigation: When not working on any project.
• Assess your Progress regarding the (Project Name): For progress on the current research project.
• Abandon your experiment: Abandons the current project. Any invested effort is wasted.

Training of Students

• Train your Shifty Student
• Train your Meticulous Student
• Train your Gifted Student
• Train your Profound Student
• Train your Visionary Student

Industry

• Manufacture Supplies

Dismissal Storylets

These storylets allow you to remove experts from your lab. (The option to send the Artist out for Honey also appears under this storylet for him.) All can be re-hired later, although after completing Ambition: Bag a Legend!, April is more complicated to re-hire.

• Dismiss Mother Superior:
• Dismiss April:
• Speak with the Numismatrix:
• Dismiss the Grubby Urchin:
• Dismiss the Mercy
• Have a firm conversation with the Freeloading Artist
• Dismiss the Esurient Smith
• Dismiss Hephaesta
• Dismiss Cora Bagley
• Dismiss F.F. Gebrandt

Ambition-specific Storylets

• Messages from April: Unique to Ambition: Bag a Legend! 150 to 154.

Menaces

If Wounds, Nightmares, or Scandal reach level 5 or higher, a non-discardable card is added to your deck for each of the aforementioned qualities. However, the player is not sent to menace location if any menace reaches 8.

The University Lab also has an additional menace called Disgruntlement among the Students. Reaching level 4 will add a non-discardable card to the deck. Reaching level 6 adds a card which fires immediately upon being drawn.