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The First Experiments did not produce a single, clear solution, but a wealth of scattered data points. The pot-making group had developed a vessel that was strong and watertight, but heavy. The rainwater collection team had discovered that a slight incline dramatically increased efficiency, but that certain local leaves could contaminate the water. The filtration group had a method that produced clean water, but it was slow. The school became a forum for synthesis, a place where these disparate findings were presented, debated, and recorded on the smooth stone walls. It was a complex, multi-dimensional puzzle, and for the first time, they had to design a solution that balanced competing variables.
Non-WOW; echoes bump. Standing held one hundred and eighty-one.
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