"I would of course never dream of working with vats of boiling acid without casting Resist Energy (Acid) first.  It was in no way the case that our Nethysian Safety Officer had to force me to do it."

"And today, indeed, we're not just learning maniacal-experimentation, but learning the Law of maniacal-experimentation.  Of this the Law is relatively simple: when experiments are cheap, do lots of them, when they're expensive, spend more on figuring out which experiments to do.  Even then, though, when you're doing lots of similar experiments and they're all failing, what you probably need is to back off and think."

"Incidentally, a bit of maniacal-experimentation I did myself on the side:  I assigned half the current researchers to start with 'Yes if not tried before' and half the researchers to 'No if not tried before'.  I was expecting 'Yes if not tried before' to be the easier one for non-dath-ilani, but it looks like it was actually the harder direction.  Sorry about that.  Had I run a pilot experiment first, I'd have known to run the real experiment with 'No if not tried before' for all the newcomers, instead of, as I did, it all being 'Yes if not tried before'.  Such is the price of maniacal experimentation where you don't run smaller pilot tests before you run the big ones."

"Carissa was still ridiculously fast even so.  Is there some kind of Worldwound experience that let you get it after your fifth input, or...?"

"I would of course never dream of working with vats of boiling acid without casting Resist Energy (Acid) first.  It was in no way the case that our Nethysian Safety Officer had to force me to do it."

"And today, indeed, we're not just learning maniacal-experimentation, but learning the Law of maniacal-experimentation.  Of this the Law is relatively simple: when experiments are cheap, do lots of them, when they're expensive, spend more on figuring out which experiments to do.  Even then, though, when you're doing lots of similar experiments and they're all failing, what you probably need is to back off and think."

"Incidentally, a bit of maniacal-experimentation I did myself on the side:  I assigned half the current researchers to start with 'Yes if not tried before' and half the researchers to 'No if not tried before'.  I was expecting 'Yes if not tried before' to be the easier one for non-dath-ilani, but it looks like it was actually the harder direction.  Sorry about that.  Had I run a pilot experiment first, I'd have known to run the real experiment with 'No if not tried before' for all the newcomers, instead of, as I did, it all being 'Yes if not tried before'.  Such is the price of maniacal experimentation where you don't run smaller pilot tests before you run the big ones."

"Carissa was in the 'No' group, but still ridiculously fast even so.  Is there some kind of Worldwound experience that let you get it after your fifth input, or...?"

"I would of course never dream of working with vats of boiling acid without casting Resist Energy (Acid) first.  It was in no way the case that our Nethysian Safety Officer had to scold me into waiting a day to pray for those spells first."

"And today, indeed, we're not just learning maniacal-experimentation, but learning the Law of maniacal-experimentation.  Of this the Law is relatively simple: when experiments are cheap, do lots of them, when they're expensive, spend more on figuring out which experiments to do.  Even then, though, when you're doing lots of similar experiments and they're all failing, what you probably need is to back off and think.  Even even then you might try running some weird or random experiments anyways, while you're thinking."

"Incidentally, a bit of maniacal-experimentation I did myself on the side:  I assigned half the current researchers to start with 'Yes if not tried before' and half the researchers to 'No if not tried before'.  I was expecting 'Yes if not tried before' to be the easier one for non-dath-ilani, but it looks like it was actually the harder direction.  Sorry about that.  Had I run a pilot experiment first, I'd have known to run the real experiment with 'No if not tried before' for all the newcomers, instead of, as I did, it all being 'Yes if not tried before'.  Such is the price of maniacal experimentation where you don't run smaller pilot tests before you run the big ones."

"Carissa was in the 'No' group, but still ridiculously fast even so.  Is there some kind of Worldwound experience that let you get it after your fifth input, or...?"

"I would of course never dream of working with volatile high-temperature acid without casting Resist Energy (Acid).  It was in no way the case that our Nethysian Safety Officer had to scold me into waiting a day to pray for those spells first."

"And today, indeed, we're not just learning maniacal-experimentation, but learning the Law of maniacal-experimentation.  Of this the Law is relatively simple: when experiments are cheap, do lots of them, when they're expensive, spend more on figuring out which experiments to do.  Even then, though, when you're doing lots of similar experiments and they're all failing, what you probably need is to back off and think.  Even even then you might try running some weird or random experiments anyways, while you're thinking."

"Incidentally, a bit of maniacal-experimentation I did myself on the side:  I assigned half the current researchers to start with 'Yes if not tried before' and half the researchers to 'No if not tried before'.  I was expecting 'Yes if not tried before' to be the easier one for non-dath-ilani, but it looks like it was actually the harder direction.  Sorry about that.  Had I run a pilot experiment first, I'd have known to run the real experiment with 'No if not tried before' for all the newcomers, instead of, as I did, it all being 'Yes if not tried before'.  Such is the price of maniacal experimentation where you don't run smaller pilot tests before you run the big ones."

"Carissa was in the 'No' group, but still ridiculously fast even so.  Is there some kind of Worldwound experience that let you get it after your fifth input, or...?"

"I would of course never dream of working with volatile high-temperature acid without casting Resist Energy (Acid).  It was in no way the case that our Nethysian Safety Officer had to browbeat me into waiting a day to pray for those spells first."

"And today, indeed, we're not just learning maniacal-experimentation, but learning the Law of maniacal-experimentation.  Of this the Law is relatively simple: when experiments are cheap, do lots of them, when they're expensive, spend more on figuring out which experiments to do.  Even then, though, when you're doing lots of similar experiments and they're all failing, what you probably need is to back off and think.  Even even then you might try running some weird or random experiments anyways, while you're thinking."

"Incidentally, a bit of maniacal-experimentation I did myself on the side:  I assigned half the current researchers to start with 'Yes if not tried before' and half the researchers to 'No if not tried before'.  I was expecting 'Yes if not tried before' to be the easier one for non-dath-ilani, but it looks like it was actually the harder direction.  Sorry about that.  Had I run a pilot experiment first, I'd have known to run the real experiment with 'No if not tried before' for all the newcomers, instead of, as I did, it all being 'Yes if not tried before'.  Such is the price of maniacal experimentation where you don't run smaller pilot tests before you run the big ones."

"Carissa was in the 'No' group, but still ridiculously fast even so.  Is there some kind of Worldwound experience that let you get it after your fifth input, or...?"

"I would of course never dream of working with volatile high-temperature acid without casting Resist Energy (Acid).  It was in no way the case that our Nethysian Safety Officer had to browbeat me into waiting a day to pray for those spells first."

"And today, indeed, we're not just learning maniacal-experimentation, but learning the Law of maniacal-experimentation.  Of this the Law is relatively simple: when experiments are cheap, do lots of them, when they're expensive, spend more on figuring out which experiments to do.  Even then, though, when you're doing lots of similar experiments and they're all failing, what you probably need is to back off and think.  Even even then you might try running some weird or random experiments anyways, while you're thinking."

"Incidentally, a bit of maniacal-experimentation I did myself on the side:  I assigned half the current researchers to start with 'Yes if not tried before' and half the researchers to 'No if not tried before'.  I was expecting 'Yes if not tried before' to be the easier one for non-dath-ilani, but it looks like it was actually the harder direction.  Sorry about that.  Had I run a pilot experiment first, I'd have known to run the real experiment with 'No if not tried before' for all the newcomers, instead of, as I did, it all being 'Yes if not tried before'.  Such is the price of maniacal experimentation where you don't run smaller pilot tests before you run the big ones."

"Carissa was in the 'No' group, but still a huge 'outlier' in speed even so.  Is there some kind of Worldwound experience that let you get it after your fifth input, or...?"