Take the knife and cut

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From: A Meeting in a White Parlour


It seems feasible, if not the simplest operation in the world.

Game Instructions: If you make this choice, you will not be able to take the white shell.

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Challenge information

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

Success

Cautious incisions

[…] First, your fingers find the exact attachment point […]

"It will grow again […] But it will take time. By then, I should be gone. […]"

After stitching the wound, you leave him to recuperate […] the Mountain's light beats on your back with an unfriendly warmth.

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Failure

A fraught operation

You open his skin with the knife, separating tissue to find the shell's origin point. His vertebrae are entwined with spirals. [...] Blood obscures the work. Your fingers slip. [...] the best you can do is saw through the shell itself and snap it off.

[...]