Work with your expert student (Gifted)

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From: Work with your Gifted Student

She is a positive joy to work with.

Game Instructions: You and your student together will do significantly better than you would on your own. A successful roll here will also generate one Unlikely Connection.

Unlocked with Experimental Object, Equipment for Scientific Experimentation, Laboratory Services from a Gifted Student 5

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 220

• 151 - very chancy (41%)
• 187 - chancy (51%)
• 224 - modest (61%)
• 261 - very modest (71%)
• 297 - low-risk (81%)
• 334 - straightforward (91%)
• 367 - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of Research Preparations reduces the base difficulty by 1 point.

Success

Aha!

[…] so quickly and effectively that you rarely need to correct anything. Most of your contribution consists of telling her what not to do: what precautions she could safely set aside, what extra bit of business is not important at the moment[…]

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• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Unlikely Connection
•  You've gained 5 + (2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research

Rare Success

Delightful! Mostly.

[…] At the end of it all, she asks when you expect her to graduate. It is clear she does not really want to leave the lab, and also clear she will be deeply offended if you tell her it will take much longer.

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• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Unlikely Connection
•  You've gained 10 + (2 × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research
•  Your students are now a bit disgruntled. (Increases Disgruntlement among the Students by 1 CP)

Failure

Hmmm...

She doesn't seem as fully awake and attentive today as usual. Perhaps something is wrong? Her mother gave a party last night: this is all she will say on the topic.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 3 + ((5/3) × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research , rounded up

Rare Failure

Hmmm...

Your student looks as if she's about to say something, but stops herself – whatever thought she has aren't fully-formed enough to share. Still, a few hours later, she's made good progress on the problem.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained ? + (? × Equipment Level) x Laboratory Research , (26 at eq 9)