Editing Below-Stairs

{{Storylet
|Icon = dawnfluke.png
|ID = 323654
|location = Helicon House
|Description = […] down an unadvertised staircase, there is a room where extraordinary changes are performed – Shapeling alterations of flesh and bone. If the inhabitants of Helicon House are well-disposed toward you, you might take your own place at the cauldron.
|Description summary = The second paragraph varies based on who accompanied you.
{{Variant table|Condition = Helicon House Companion|Effect = Second paragraph|Condition type = Text
|Value 1 = {{IL|Starry-Eyed Scoundrel}}
|Effect 1 = The Scoundrel hovers nervously. It seems he finds this view not alluring but faintly alarming.
|Value 2 = {{IL|Master Jewel Thief}}
|Effect 2 = Your spouse surveys the room keenly, though it's not obvious what if anything here would attract his avarice.
|Value 3 = {{IL|Celebrated Artist's Model}}
|Effect 3 = Your spouse poses languidly in the corner, in an attitude meant to inspire admiration and longing. None of the Rubberies takes any notice.
|Value 5 = {{IL|The Admiralty Lackey}}
|Effect 5 = The Admiralty Lackey looks around the cluttered kitchen in discomfort. It is clear he does not wish to be here.
|Value 24 = {{IL|Philosophically Perfect Partnership|Appearance=Roguish Semiotician|Image=roguishsemiotician.png}}<br />{{IL|Philosophically Perfect Partnership|Appearance=Infamous Mathematician|Image=infamousmathematician.png}}<br />{{IL|Flexible Intelligencer}}<br />{{IL|Joyful Charter Clerk}}<br />{{IL|Joyful Illuminator}}<br />{{IL|Soothing Palaeontologist}}
|Effect 24 = Your spouse takes in the proceedings with a glance, then looks expressively towards you, as though to remark that they might have known you'd be interested in this sort of thing.
|Value 40 = {{IL|Blooming Wallflower}}
|Effect 40 = The Blooming Wallflower fades against the wall as much as possible.
|Value 80 = {{IL|Platonic Partner in Crime}}
|Effect 80 = Your platonic partner in crime is never more than an arm's length from you.
|Value 90 = {{IL|A Bewildering Procession of Companions, Lovers, Suitors, and Paramours}}
|Effect 90 = Several of your companions start looking curiously into pots and picking up bits of amber.
|Value 91 = {{IL|Philosophically Perfect Partnership|Appearance=Both your spouses}}
|Effect 91 = Your spouses curiously examine the amber, idly proposing theories about its nature.
|Value 100 = {{IL|Your Spouse, Returned}}<br />{{IL|Your Lover, Returned}}<br />{{IL|Your Brother, Returned}}<br />{{IL|Your Daughter, Returned}}
|Effect 100 = Your (resurrected loved one) looks uncertainly around the basement, perhaps wondering whether such scenes are common in the Neath.
|Value 210 = {{IL|Esoteric Accomplice}}<br />{{IL|Fabulous Accomplice}}
|Effect 210 = Your accomplice stays alertly by your side, obviously anticipating there may be some call for her services.
|Value 260 = {{IL|Genre Painter}}
|Effect 260 = The Genre Painter watches the proceedings with some fascination, perhaps filing away the scenes before him as inspiration for future work.
|Value 261 = {{IL|Prescient Automatist}}
|Effect 261 = The Prescient Automatist watches the proceedings with some fascination, perhaps filing away the scenes before him as inspiration for future work.
|Value 300 = {{IL|Noman}}
|Effect 300 = Your Noman stares expressively at the bubbling cauldron.
|Value 1000 = {{IL|Espoused to|Appearance = Player Spouse}}
|Effect 1000 = Your spouse absorbs every detail of the scene. You will, you fancy, be speaking of this on the way home.
}}

|Unlocked with = {{Unlock|Time Remaining at Helicon House|1}}, {{Unlock|Discovered: Below-Stairs|hidden=yes}}
|Option1 = Perform the duties of a sous-artist
|Option2 = Consider yourself closest to Rubbery Men
|Option3 = Descend further below
}}

==Upgrade Bones==
{{Options|Draw tentacles from the cauldron}}
{{Options|Convert your fin-bones into something more impressive}}
{{Options|Create a Flourishing Ribcage}}
{{Options|Create a Ribcage with a Bouquet of Eight Spines}}

==Raise {{IL|Shapeling Arts}} Cap==
{{Options|Solicit guidance in the Shapeling Arts}}
{{Options|Solicit further guidance in the Shapeling Arts}}

==Advance {{IL|Becoming Acquainted with Rubbery Art}}==
{{Options|Stay after hours for a singular occasion}}

==[[The London Horticultural Show (Guide)|The London Horticultural Show]] (Estival 2023)==
{{Options|Petition for a demonstration on living flesh}}