Editing Work with your Profound Student

{{Card
|Icon = captivepoet.png
|ID = 344848 
|location = University Laboratory (Place)
|Frequency = Standard Frequency
|Discardable = no
|Description = He sits quietly when he is working on an idea. He also sits quietly when he is between ideas. Sometimes it takes an intervention to find out what he is thinking.
|Unlocked with = {{Unlock|Laboratory Services from a Profound Student}}, {{Unlock|Experimental Object}}
|Option1 = Shepherd your student through some research (Profound){{!}}Shepherd your student through some research
|Option2 = Collaborate with your student (Profound){{!}}Collaborate with your student
|Option3 = Work with your expert student (Profound){{!}}Work with your expert student
|Option4 = Follow up a hunch with your student (Profound){{!}}Follow up a hunch with your student
|Option5 = Encourage your student to work with the Percipient Cricketer
}}

==Research Descriptions==
These are the remarks made by the student about the current research project for the Watchful actions above.
===Research Success===
The Profound Student's research success descriptions vary by {{IL|Experimental Object|Appearance=Experiment}}, but they are shared across several actions on his card. Expand the table below to see the known variations.
{{Variant table|Condition = Experimental Object|Condition alias = Experiment|Effect = Research Description
<noinclude>|Condition type = Raw</noinclude>
|Value 10 = {{EO|10}}, {{EO|210 - 230, 260}}
|Effect 10 = He thinks a long time before writing out his conclusions. They spell out meticulous reasoning. There are thirty pages of the stuff.
|Value 40 = {{EO|40}}
|Effect 40 = The Profound Student proves adept at fabricating metal parts, operating the machine tools with virtuosic precision. Though his tendency to stare at metal stock for what seems like hours infuriates. "I am envisioning its final geometry," […]
|Value 110 = {{EO|110 - 130}}
|Effect 110 = […] There are thirty pages on the history of conflict and fifty pages on the problematic nature of violence in society. Then there are two and a half pages on the particular problem you are currently working on. Fortunately, the insights are usable.
|Value 140 = {{EO|140 - 160}}
|Effect 140 = […] alterations to the Principle's bonds of obligation will produce a less warlike personality – in theory. "Freed from the chains that bind, surely the Principle will take up peaceful pursuits," he says[…] The Principle gives him a dubious look.
|Value 240 = {{EO|240}}
|Effect 240 = What he produces is less a map than an extended essay on the question of what mapping even ''means'' in a place like Parabola. Perhaps it will do for an introduction?
|Value 250 = {{EO|250}}
|Effect 250 = He contemplates the fronts and backs of the scrip, the weight and the writing. […] "The question is, who printed this? Who designed it? Who owns the Ministry of the Upper River?" In his laboratory notes, he presents a dozen theories as to the answer.
|Value 310 = {{EO|310 - 320}}
|Effect 310 = Most of his design ideas involve simplifying the design rather than adding to it. He returns to core questions about the purpose of what you are building, and strips away anything that does not evidently contribute to that goal. […]
|Value 330 = {{EO|330}}
|Effect 330 = The Profound Student is impatient when a device has too many parts and pieces. This one has no moving parts at all: it just fits itself against an egg surface and stays that way, doing... whatever it does.<p>[…] "More. It makes things More."
|Value 350 = {{EO|350 - 360}}
|Effect 350 = The Profound Student is good at improving the mechanics of the design, but bad at diagnosing faults in the underlying theory. There is quite a lot of calculation involved.
|Value 410 = {{EO|410}}
|Effect 410 = How did the Focused Albatross become focused? The Profound Student has a theory, involving a rapid extraction into Parabola by way of a curved mirror. There are many diagrams and calculations […]. The Albatross itself rests on its perch, disregarded.
|Value 420 = {{EO|420}}
|Effect 420 = […] has received dozens of answers, some of them contradictory, some simultaneous. […]<p>[…] claims to have been birthed in the recurring nightmares of a distinguished barrister. […] the second head agrees […] but that he was far from notable in his profession. […]
|Value 430 = {{EO|430 - 470}}
|Effect 430 = He is very exercised by the question of origins and purposes. Why did this animal form in this particular way? What was its childhood? […] He has even attempted to interview the animal, though with minimal success.
|Value 480 = {{EO|480}}
|Effect 480 = […] the Profound Student begins to compose a map of the egg appearances across London, and attempts to account for local variations and probable epicentres. It's difficult work, however, as nothing seems to have been left where it was originally laid.
|Value 485 = {{EO|485}}
|Effect 485 = […] "The same creature lays all these eggs, every year. Every year, more variations, more attempts – more failures. […] these are not iterations. Every type […] is utterly different to the one before." […] "[…] it must be desperately sad, and desperately lonely."
|Value 490 = {{EO|490}}
|Effect 490 = He lines the Aged Egg next to a rock of similar size and stares at them until his eyes cross. He would very much like to believe that the Egg is merely a very large and unusual naturally occurring rock formation. The alternatives disturb him.
|Value 495 = {{EO|495}}
|Effect 495 = […] He prefers to turn his mind to the philosophical question: what does it mean to be a city? Is it merely the transformation into streets and buildings and unusually vital substance, or are other aspects […] also implied? […] Its music, its cuisine? […]
|Value 510 = {{EO|510}}
|Effect 510 = The Profound Student has created a speculative timeline, showing the body shapes of a range of animals ancient and modern, the better to contextualise the ribcage that faces you currently.
|Value 520 = {{EO|520 - 530}}
|Effect 520 = "Size," says the Profound Student, "is an illusion." Then he does something with lenses that recreates the ribcage, at twice its current size, inside Parabola. […] not quite what you were trying to achieve, but you can build on this step, all the same.
|Value 540 = {{EO|540}}
|Effect 540 = The Profound Student has created a speculative timeline, showing the body shapes of a range of animals ancient and modern, the better to contextualise the ribcage that faces you currently.
|Value 610 = {{EO|610}}
|Effect 610 = The Profound Student finds a single bone by itself upsetting, and would very much prefer to be able to study it in concert with the other accompanying bones and body parts.
|Value 810 = {{EO|810 - 820}}
|Effect 810 = The Profound Student has attempted to account for the geological activities that could have given rise to this rock. His speculative history of the Neath requires the existence of an ice volcano[…]The margins of his notes reference Storm […]
|Value 920 = {{EO|910 - 950}}
|Effect 920 = He writes more about the probable uses and consequences of this invention than he does about the possible invention itself. But he does produce what might be considered a bare minimum of useful input.
|Value 970 = {{EO|970}}
|Effect 970 = He's been sitting before the egg, staring at it for a long time. Is he trying to... communicate with it?
|Value 980 = {{EO|980}}
|Effect 980 = The Profound Student spends some time spinning out a theory about how infernal metals behave differently from other metallic materials, and how this substance might not have originated in Irem – or might result from devilish intervention there.
|Value 990 = {{EO|990}}
|Effect 990 = The Profound student dusts off a very intricate monograph on the quality of Neathy light and its effects on chemical reactions, which is very helpful in your examination of the samples.
|Value 1010 = {{EO|1010}}, {{EO|1030}}, {{EO|1040}}
|Effect 1010 = […] clarifying questions about the nature of infinity, number of possible infinities, and the distinction between numbers that are merely imaginary and the Parabolan numbers that are incapable of having any meaning at all. […]
|Value 1020 = {{EO|1020}}
|Effect 1020 = The equations required for this project elude him, but he is good at taking the initial measurements. Indeed, it produces a meditative state he appears to find quite comforting.
|Value 1050 = {{EO|1050}}
|Effect 1050 = He studies the brickwork intently. […] At last, he says, "It expresses a mood of withdrawal. Whoever laid this brick was tired of the world and wanted to retreat from it. They felt overwhelmed. Too many obligations, too little time." […]
|Value 1210 = {{EO|1210}}
|Effect 1210 = […] Things that grow slowly are dear to his heart. His notes show a tendency to anthropomorphise, but also an excellent comprehension of botanical principles. If only he'd stop writing of the plant's anguished desire to photosynthesise.
|Value 1320 = {{EO|1320}}
|Effect 1320 = The Profound Student locks himself in a room with a stack of artefacts. Five days later he emerges […]
"The accepted chronology is ''entirely'' in error […] the pottery takes its date from the […] allusion to a verse that has been conclusively proven a forgery. […]"

[…]
|Value 1340 = {{EO|1340}}
|Effect 1340 = The Profound Student unearths every text that references ushabtiu and reads each one in intense detail. "You know, the social context for these things is ''fascinating''," he says.
|Value 1350 = {{EO|1350}}
|Effect 1350 = The Profound Student measures the cuirass several times, and weighs it against the weight of various other materials. "This has been scaled down," he says. "The Betrayer of Measures. It used to be something much larger."

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===Research Failure===
<section begin=failuredescription />He can stare at the [Research Object] for hours at a time. Maybe this is leading him to some useful conclusion. Maybe he's able to sleep with his eyes open.<section end=failuredescription />
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