Add the Wing of a Young Terror Bird to your (Skeleton Type)

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From: Assemble a Skeleton

Might it enjoy a flight?

Game Instructions: It will be harder to do this convincingly if the skeleton already has fins. These Wings provide a point each of Menace and Antiquity.

Unlocked with Skeleton: Limbs Needed, 1 x Wing of a Young Terror Bird

Locked with Skeleton: Skulls Needed

Wiki note: The title of this option uses the manifest text for the Skeleton: Fins and Skeleton: Torso Style of your skeleton.

Challenge information

Narrow, Monstrous Anatomy 0 (50% base)

• 0 - very chancy (50%)
• 1 - chancy (60%)
• 2 - modest (70%)
• 3 - very modest (80%)
• 4 - low-risk (90%)
• 5 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Each point of Skeleton: Fins increases the base difficulty by 2 points.

Success

Antique wing-shape

You wire up the wings-bones. They are persuasively ancient: thicker and heavier than modern bird-bones, and tipped with a lacerating spur.

•  You've gained 250 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Wings
• You've lost 1 x Wing of a Young Terror Bird
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Menace
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Antiquity

Failure

Uncooperative model

It is not easy getting the angle of the wings right. You try bringing in your Young Terror Bird as a model. Unfortunately, it doesn't like standing still.[…] it takes an interest in its skeletal double and keeps head-butting the delicate joints.

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•  You've gained 250 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Wings
•  You've gained 2 x Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility
• You've lost 1 x Wing of a Young Terror Bird
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Menace
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Antiquity