Deliver a load of sphinxstone

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From: The Prelapsarian Exhibition: Building a Museum

Before it starts weeping in your hold and your ship turns to rust.

Unlocked with

Locked with is 1000001 (World Quality, now locked)

Success

Dangerous cargo

A team of heavy horses and a Taciturn Driver bring it from the docks all the way to the back street behind the museum, away from prying eyes. Clay porters disappear the silk-wrapped stones into the building.

•  You have contributed to Museum Construction: Materials. (Increases Museum Construction: Materials by 150 + round down( Placeholder World Quality Denoting the Time Passed since the Start of The Prelapsarian Exhibition, Which is Assumed to Govern the Scaling of this Action * 6.25))
• You've lost 1 x A Hold Full of Sphinxstone
•  You've gained 6250 x Curator's Gratitude

Rare Success

Dangerous cargo

A team of heavy horses and a Taciturn Driver bring it from the docks all the way to the back street behind the museum, away from prying eyes. Clay porters disappear the silk-wrapped stones into the building.

But the door is carelessly left open: […]

Description summary:
The rest of the second paragraph presumably changes as the quality increases.

Museum Construction: Materials	Description
0% - 25%	a pile of basalt has been arranged in the middle of a large parlour. The walls are scribed with a pattern of numbered markings – perhaps indicating how individual stones are meant to be arranged?
25% - 50%	a pile of basalt has been arranged […] Some are being mortared in place already, along the room's walls. But behind the stones is a layer of leaden plates, each riveted into the wall and inscribed with a single sigil. Their pattern makes your eyes itch.
50% - 75%	a pile of basalt has been arranged in the middle of a large parlour, though most of the sphinxstone has already been mortared to the walls of the room – it looks more like an Egyptian tomb than anything […] Loose wires and brass rivets litter the floor.
75% - 100%	a large parlour has been converted into a windowless stone chamber, with basalt mortared in place around its perimeter. Through the opening, you catch a glimpse of some kind of machine, mid-assembly, in the middle of the floor.

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•  You have contributed to Museum Construction: Materials. (Increases Museum Construction: Materials by 150 + round down( Placeholder World Quality Denoting the Time Passed since the Start of The Prelapsarian Exhibition, Which is Assumed to Govern the Scaling of this Action * 6.25))
• You've lost 1 x A Hold Full of Sphinxstone
•  You've gained 6250 x Curator's Gratitude