The Osteology Lab

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In the back rooms of the Natural History wing, the Museum's staff is always at work cataloguing and identifying bones and fossils. Gebrandt has granted you, as a naturalist of some standing, access to this space.

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Identify the femur of a Jurassic beast

•  Spoiler ID: 256218
  

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  Success

  A leg to stand on

  •  You've lost 1 x Femur of a Jurassic Beast
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Bone under Examination:' Quality is now A Femur, Possibly Jurassic!
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality is now Dinosaur!

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Identify a fossilized forelimb

•  Spoiler ID: 256265
  

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  Success

  Menacing

  • You've lost 1 x Fossilised Forelimb
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Bone under Examination:' Quality is now The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast!
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality is now Dinosaur!

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Assert that the specimen is (first option)

•  Spoiler ID: 256266
  

  Unlocked with  is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod,  is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Identified

  •  An occurrence! Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality is now (10 * ) + 1!
  • 'Identifying...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?

  Failure

  No, not quite

  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

Assert that the creature is (second option)

•  Spoiler ID: 256267
  

  Unlocked with  is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod,  is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Identified

  •  An occurrence! Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality is now (10 * ) + 2!
  • 'Identifying...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?

  Failure

  No, not quite

  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

Catalogue its morphology

•  Spoiler ID: 256268
  

  Unlocked with  is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod,  is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 120 || 82 - very chancy (41%) || 102 - chancy (51%) || 122 - modest (61%) || 142 - very modest (71%) || 162 - low-risk (81%) || 182 - straightforward (91%) || 200 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Of course!

  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+4 CP)

  Failure

  Unhelpful

  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)

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Analyse its composition

•  Spoiler ID: 256269
  

  Unlocked with  is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod, ,  is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, 1 (50% base) || 0 - tough (40%) || 1 - very chancy (50%) || 2 - chancy (60%) || 3 - modest (70%) || 4 - very modest (80%) || 5 - low-risk (90%) || 6 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Aha!

  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+4 CP)
  • You've lost 10 x Flask of Abominable Salts

  Failure

  Curses

  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

Compare its anatomy to extant creatures

•  Spoiler ID: 256270
  

  Unlocked with  is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod,  is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
  

   

  Challenge information

  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

  Form and function

  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+4 CP)

  
  

  Failure

  Confusion

  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)

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Request help from a University colleague

•  Spoiler ID: 256316
  

  Unlocked with  A Respectable Academic,  is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod,  is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, 180 || 123 - very chancy (41%) || 153 - chancy (51%) || 183 - modest (61%) || 213 - very modest (71%) || 244 - low-risk (81%) || 273 - straightforward (91%) || 300 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Helpful

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  Identifying... is increasing… (+6 CP)

  Failure

  Unhelpful

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  •  Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

Complete a monograph on the subject

•  Spoiler ID: 256271
  

  Unlocked with  Diplodocus, Titanosaurus, Allosaurus, Coelurus, Stegosaurus, Polacanthus, Iguanodon, Hadrosaurus,  A Femur, Possibly Jurassic, The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
  

   

  Success

  Published

  • Your 'Bone under Examination:' Quality has gone!
  • Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality has gone!
  •  You've gained 1 x Palaeozoologist

  With A Femur, Possibly Jurassic:

  •  You've gained 6500 x Curator's Gratitude

  With The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast:

  •  You've gained 8750 x Curator's Gratitude

  ^