Editing Make a few discreet inquiries

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|Icon = magnifyingglass.png
|From Storylet title = The Fluctuations of the Bone Market
|ID = 250344
|Description = Look over the smaller stalls; strike up a conversation with a few buyers.
|Game Instructions = This will give you some clues about this week's condition of the bone market.
|Unlocked with = {{World Unlock|Bone Market Fluctuations:}}, {{World Unlock|Zoological Mania:}}, {{World Unlock|Occasional Buyer:}}
|Action cost = 0
|Success title = Who's buying?
|Success description = [see tables below]
|Success summary = The description will vary based on the current status of the World Qualities.
{{Variant table|Condition = Bone Market Fluctuations:|Effect = First Paragraph
|Value 1 = {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Appearance=Antiquity}}
|Effect 1 = You catch one seller adding an extra zero to the estimated age of his skeleton. "There is a mania for very old skeletons," he tells you. "All the usual buyers are finding that they have to offer higher prices."
|Value 2 = {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Appearance=Amalgamy}}
|Effect 2 = Even the more staid sellers have added twisted bones and amalgamous creatures to their displays. "Rubbery this, amalgamous that," […] "'s all anyone cares about now. No respect for a good, respectable fossil that knows its place."
|Value 3 = {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Appearance=Menace}}
|Effect 3 = The urchins that often scutter about the bone market, gawking at the merchandise, are ever more present […] "Cor," you hear one exclaim. "That's a proper terrifyin' one." Indeed, it seems like interest in the threatening and the macabre is at a peak.
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{{Variant table|Condition = Zoological Mania:|Effect = Second Paragraph
|Value 1 = Reptiles
|Effect 1 = This week, the Carpenter's Granddaughter is giving a lecture on reptile evolution. Accordingly, there is a furore over dinosaur skeletons, some of which have been sold for unseemly prices.
|Value 2 = Amphibians
|Effect 2 = Amphibians seem to be in fashion, perhaps as buyers have come to regard dinosaurs as well-trod ground. You overhear a prospective seller telling his hired illustrator to "make sure it looks moist."
|Value 3 = Birds
|Effect 3 = One seller that normally displays ammonites is instead selling an assortment of feathers. Birds are in vogue, it seems.
|Value 4 = Fish
|Effect 4 = There's a greater-than-usual proportion of zailors and zee-captains in the crowd today; it seems like a fortuitous coincidence in the shore leave schedule of several large vessels. The growing popularity […] has created a rush for fish specimens.
|Value 5 = Arachnids
|Effect 5 = One seller has gamely assembled several bones into a spider-like shape; nobody's tried to challenge him on whether spiders have bones, yet. It seems there's a burgeoning market for this kind of thing, for the moment.
|Value 6 = Insects
|Effect 6 = The Bone Market is crawling with bugs – trilobites both realistic and improbable, colossal meganeura dragonflies, animals evolving either out of being crabs or back into being crabs. Above all, there is a great deal of interest in insects.
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{{Variant table|Condition = Occasional Buyer:|Effect = Third Paragraph
|Value 1 = {{IL|Sell to an Enthusiast in Skulls (Skeleton)|Appearance=An Enthusiast in Skulls}}
|Effect 1 = A notorious Enthusiast in Skulls is browsing the stalls this week, interested in buying the skeleton with the most heads.
|Value 2 = {{IL|A Dreary Midnighter}}
|Effect 2 = A Dreary Midnighter is browsing the stalls this week. Nobody can say what his purpose here is, but he only seems interested in the most dully plausible skeletons.
|Value 3 = {{IL|A Colourful Phantasist}}
|Effect 3 = The Colourful Phantasist has made an appearance at the bone market. She purchases the most outlandish skeletons she can find.
|Value 4 = {{IL|An Ingenuous Malacologist}}
|Effect 4 = An Ingenuous Malacologist is browsing the stalls this week, expressing an interest in fossils with tentacles.
|Value 5 = {{IL|An Enterprising Boot Salesman}}
|Effect 5 = An Enterprising Boot Salesman is browsing the stalls this week, looking to buy the skeleton with the most legs.
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|Success Instructions = Conditions in the Bone Market will shift every Tuesday at 11AM UTC; take advantage of this information before then!
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