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Game Instructions: Better Equipment and higher Scholar of the Correspondence will improve the rewards here. You will always receive at least some research.

Challenge information

Broad, A Scholar of the Correspondence 5

• 3 - tough (36%)
• 4 - very chancy (48%)
• 5 - chancy (60%)
• 6 - very modest (72%)
• 7 - low-risk (84%)
• 8 - straightforward (96%)
• 9 - straightforward (100%)
  

Broad, Watchful 175

• 120 - very chancy (41%)
• 149 - chancy (51%)
• 178 - modest (61%)
• 208 - very modest (71%)
• 237 - low-risk (81%)
• 266 - straightforward (91%)
• 292 - straightforward (100%)
  

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

Success

Well, then...

Fully-formed research – partial proofs, theorems, references, conjectures, ideas – arrives at your laboratory, wrapped in brown paper and thrown over the transom. All of the material is at least interesting. Some is fascinating.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Unexpected Result
•  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

The Laboratory Research gain is logistic with ASotC as the input and scaled by Equipment:

${\frac {\mathrm {Eq} }{9}}\times \left[5+{\frac {35}{1+e^{-{\frac {1}{2}}\cdot (\mathrm {ASotC} -12)}}}\right]$

Click here to see the exact research gains for Equipment 4, 7 and 9, or use the calculator for other values.

Equipment 4

ASotC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Research	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	5	6	8
ASotC	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Research	10	12	14	15	16	17	17	17	17	18

Equipment 7

ASotC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Research	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	7	9	11	14
ASotC	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Research	17	21	24	26	28	29	30	30	31	31

Equipment 9

ASotC	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Research	5	5	5	6	6	7	8	9	11	14	18
ASotC	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Research	22	27	31	34	36	37	38	39	39	40

Rare Success

Well, then...

Fully-formed research – partial proofs, theorems, references, conjectures, ideas – arrives at your laboratory […] All of the material is at least interesting. Some is fascinating. And here – this handwritten note is downright alarming.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Watchful is increasing…
•  You've gained 1 x Unwise Idea
•  You've gained (see formula above) x Laboratory Research

Failure

Regrets

Your secretive collaborators respond with prolific, if unorganized, thoughts. Some of which you might wish you hadn't read.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained (8 + Equipment) x Laboratory Research