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From: Genii Locorum


What are they hoping for, when they leave lumps of amber and fragments of bone?

Unlocked with  30,  is: Cornelius


Challenge information

Broad, 150

  • 103 - very chancy (41%)
  • 128 - chancy (51%)
  • 153 - modest (61%)
  • 178 - very modest (71%)
  • 203 - low-risk (81%)
  • 228 - straightforward (91%)
  • 250 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, 7 (50% base)

  • 3 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 4 - high-risk (20%)
  • 5 - high-risk (30%)
  • 6 - tough (40%)
  • 7 - very chancy (50%)
  • 8 - chancy (60%)
  • 9 - modest (70%)
  • 10 - very modest (80%)
  • 11 - low-risk (90%)
  • 12 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Help wanted

A boy [...] stops and contemplates the bone and amber heap visible in a window. He knocks on the door [...] and offers his services.

The old widow is delighted with him. A little while later, the offering is taken [...] and buried just by the front stoop of the house.

[...]

Description summary:
The third paragraph varies based on the city's .

AlignmentThird Paragraph
Liberationist, Radical Liberationist, Emancipationist, Anti-EmancipationistCornelius did think that there could be some creature to fill every gap and serve every need; and that if they couldn't be found, then they could be made. The boy looks human, but perhaps the old lady is not a stickler about methods.
Anti-PrehistoricistCornelius did think that there could be some creature to fill every gap [...]; and that if they couldn't be found, then they could be made. Prehistoricism may be outcast [...] so the principles must be fulfilled by well-chosen humans and not by bone-beasts.

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Failure

Incomprehensible

You rarely find the people leaving these, either. And it doesn't seem to be a Rubbery observance.