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[ed boy]

try to burn it before you bury it.

[Samthere]

Create a coil of wire and an indicator dial, such that the needle moves when the wire is moved near a magnet (i.e. a trivial and simple detector of current). Try moving it near the strange object.
Although this may be risky, and perhaps we should avoid performing SCIENCE! in the presence of the object.

If we do decide to bury it, encase it in a container of wood. Around that, another container of lead, then fired clay. Optionally some final layer of harmless metal; copper, iron, etc, to make it less delicate. In the end, the result should be roughly 2-3cm total thickness, so 4-6cm added to each dimension of the mysterious cylinder (how large is the cylinder, by the way?).

In summary:

Strange object
Wood layer
Lead layer
Ceramic layer
{Optional} Metal outer layer

This should hopefully keep it from sending communications or being found by any normal means.

And, finally, bury it in a suitably remote location from where we may conduct our future SCIENCE!

[maxicaxi]

Create a coil of wire and an indicator dial, such that the needle moves when the wire is moved near a magnet (i.e. a trivial and simple detector of current). Try moving it near the strange object.
Although this may be risky, and perhaps we should avoid performing SCIENCE! in the presence of the object.

If we do decide to bury it, encase it in a container of wood. Around that, another container of lead, then fired clay. Optionally some final layer of harmless metal; copper, iron, etc, to make it less delicate. In the end, the result should be roughly 2-3cm total thickness, so 4-6cm added to each dimension of the mysterious cylinder (how large is the cylinder, by the way?).

In summary:

Strange object
Wood layer
Lead layer
Ceramic layer
{Optional} Metal outer layer

This should hopefully keep it from sending communications or being found by any normal means.

And, finally, bury it in a suitably remote location from where we may conduct our future SCIENCE!

THiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis

[Zako]

Somebody's enthusiastic...

Still, no science in the presence of the object. In fact, get the object well out of the house and into the woods before you even make the electric current indicator. Then test it while in the woods, don't forget to bring a hammer and (most important!) a mask to protect your lungs from any hazardous chemicals that may be inside. If we can't break it, bury it inside the layered container mentioned previously.

[NUKE9.13]

Somebody's enthusiastic...

Still, no science in the presence of the object. In fact, get the object well out of the house and into the woods before you even make the electric current indicator. Then test it while in the woods, don't forget to bring a hammer and (most important!) a mask to protect your lungs from any hazardous chemicals that may be inside. If we can't break it, bury it inside the layered container mentioned previously.

First, you take the object into the woods.
Then you remember you do not know how to make an current detector because that shit is cutting edge science of which you have no knowledge!

Study it, if you dont find anything out break it with a hammer, if your attempts to break it with a hammer do not succeed then go and bury it somewhere.

Then you take your tools of Science out into the woods to Study the device. You pry the top off of the cylinder by force, revealing the inner workings. It is confusing. Copper wiring, glass tubing, gears, springs, small gemstones, what looks like some jelly- this thing is a beacon of cutting-edge technology. You investigate the device for hours, but you cannot determine what it does. You can guess, though; spy on innocent Gentlemenne, and record their actions. One piece of the device you can unravel appears to be a device for measuring Etheric Disturbances.
That blasted Institute! Always out to make things difficult for you.
You put the device back in its casing, then place it in a wooden box. You then place the wooden box in a metal box (you see no reason to use lead), which you bury in the earth. Spy on me now!

You head back home, confident of a job well done.

It is 30 days since you returned home. It is morning.

Spoiler: Your Gentlemanly Holdings (click to show/hide)

One (1) fairly dusty old family home in the country
Crappy Forge
Vegetable Patch (growing vegetables)
Chicken Run (contains 6 hens)
Hidden Shack (contains medium Steam Engine, small Pump)
Estates surrounding your dusty old family home (forests and hills)
£175 in cashe
£0 in banke account
Etheric Steamworks Lab:
-Decent Etherical Equipment
-Poor Steamwork Equipment
-Shitty Alchemical Equipment
-Shitty Physical Equipment
Book on Alchemistry
Book on Physics
Tome of Spells
Tome of Etheric Guidelines
Licence to Science

Spoiler: Your Various Things (click to show/hide)

A note on things: Unless otherwise noted, you have enough things to do all small-scale experiments and design prototypes.
Assorted Magical Crystals
Magical Reagents
Silver Wire
Samples of Rare Woods
Rusty Plumbing (Includes pipes, valves, boilers, ect)
Rusty Gears (mechanisms)
A further note on things: Many simple things can be found lying about the house. Your family did not throw things away.

Spoiler: Your Fine Inventions and such (click to show/hide)

Spells:
Local Fertility Boost: common herbs, uncommon herbs, animal sacrifice (>=chicken), 3 hours subtle preparation, 3 hours casting

Potions:
Spontaneously Combusting Goop: common herbs, uncommon herbs, 2 hours subtle preparation.
Beetle Killing Poison: common herbs, uncommon herbs, 3 hours subtle preparation.

Etherical Contraptions:
Unnamed magical 'gun': 1 uncommon gemstone, 1 piece of animal bone, 1 piece of plumbing, 1 gun stock/bits and pieces + 2 hours crafting, 3 hours crafting, 2 hours casting. Fires pain.

Steam Machines:
Medium Steam Engine: 10 pieces of plumbing, 1 boiler, some gears and pistons, 2 square meters of sheet metal, 1 big wheel, 4 days of crafting&forging. Consumes large amounts of coal, provides moderate power.
Small water pump: 25 pieces of plumbing, some gears and pistons, 1 water container, 2 days of crafting&forging. Consumes moderate power, provides moderate water.

Spoiler: Your Many Learnings (click to show/hide)

Etheric Sciences (Lv3)
Steamworks (Lv2)

Spoiler: Your Brilliant Accomplishments (click to show/hide)

Spells cast:
Local Fertility Spell

Contraptions created:
The 'pain gun': Looks like a shoddily-constructed pistol. Fires magical bolts of pain on pulling the trigger.

Machines built:
Medium Steam Engine
Small Water Pump (almost complete)

Mundane Accomplishments:
£100 of Potato Farm
Fireplace Ironwork

[Demonic Spoon]

Mmm, go retrieve the device and study it to learn cutting edge SCIENCE? Also research the aforementioned warding spells, eletricfying fence methods and some sort of automated turret using the pain pistol design as a basis.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Mmm, go retrieve the device and study it to learn cutting edge SCIENCE?

Probably best to leave it where it is, for now.

[dragnar]

I say we disassemble it. Taking mysterious objects apart is simple curiosity, not SCIENCE.

[maxicaxi]

I say we disassemble it. Taking mysterious objects apart is simple curiosity, not SCIENCE.

THiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiS

[NUKE9.13]

I say we disassemble it. Taking mysterious objects apart is simple curiosity, not SCIENCE.

But what if the device has some sort of safeguard against tampering? You could accidentally send a message to the Institute whilst trying to learn more about it.

BY WHICH I MEAN
MAYBE? PERHAPS? I GUESS?
(POSSIBLY)

(But seriously; don't tamper with the device until you are ready to take on the Institute)

THiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiS

Cut that out.

[Acanthus117]

Yeah, I'm tired of the Thiiiis bullshit.

[dragnar]

It's quite a conundrum. We cannot do anything to the device for fear of detection, but because we don't know what it does we also can't do anything NEAR the device in case it contacts the Institute.

[ed boy]

There's no conundrum - do your stuff away from the device and leave it alone.

[Demonic Spoon]

Righto then, do the other stuff I suggested.

[maxicaxi]

THiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiS

Cut that out.

the all-mighty gm has spoken on this thread i will say it no more!