''ORRORS OF THE OSSUARY FOR SALE!'
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From: This Morning's Gazette
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How fares the Bone Market this week?
Unlocked with Route: The Bone Market
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Sticks and stones
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Finally, a gossip columnist in the Gazette takes the time to record the most unusual personage they've glimpsed in the Market this week. [...]Description summary:
The description varies based on the current status of the World Qualities.
Bone Market Fluctuations: | First Paragraph |
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Antiquity | It seems skeletons of a particularly advanced decrepitude (that a lesser paper might refer to as 'antiques') are in vogue this week. |
Amalgamy | It seems buyers are undergoing a mania for the bizarre, the anomalous and the altogether outre this week. No skeleton is too flexible to be unloved. |
Menace | It seems there's a vogue for the grisly, the gruesome and the grotesque this week. The more fangs the better! |
Zoological Mania: | Second Paragraph |
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Birds | Birds and all things that might once have flown are expected to command higher prices this week. One might expect to see sellers at the market wearing feathers in their caps, figuratively or otherwise. |
Reptiles | Also this week, the Carpenter's Granddaughter is giving a lecture on reptile evolution. There has been a furore over dinosaur skeletons, some of which have been sold for unseemly prices. |
Amphibians | Amphibians are in fashion this week, as the fad for reptiles is now decidedly 'old hat.' |
Fish | Storms at zee have driven more zailors inland than usual. The Bone Market, ever commercially minded, has contrived a vogue for fish. |
Arachnids | It is spider skeletons in vogue this week. The Gazette does not elaborate further. One some matters, silence is the best and only policy. |
Insects | Insects are the flavour of the week, the Gazette informs you. The definition, like the skeletons themselves, is decidedly flexible. |
Primates | The current fashion are primates – monkeys, apes, and of course that most dangerous animal of all. |
Occasional Buyer: | Remainder of Third Paragraph |
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An Enthusiast in Skulls | A notorious Enthusiast in Skulls is browsing the stalls […], interested in buying the skeleton with the most heads. |
An Enterprising Boot Salesman | An Enterprising Boot Salesman is browsing the stalls this week, looking to buy the skeleton with the most legs. |
A Colourful Phantasist | The Colourful Phantasist has made an appearance at the bone market. She purchases the most outlandish skeletons she can find. |
An Ingenuous Malacologist | An Ingenuous Malacologist is browsing the stalls this week, expressing an interest in fossils with tentacles. |
A Dreary Midnighter | A Dreary Midnighter is browsing the stalls […] he only seems interested in the most dully plausible skeletons. |
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