Affix a Bright Brass Skull to your (Skeleton Type)

Wiki note: The title of this option varies with its Torso Style and Menace qualities:
Affix a Bright Brass Skull to your

Skeleton: Torso Style	Text
10, 15	Human
20	Thorny-Breasted
30	Seven-necked
40	Many-limbed
45	Segmented
50	Mammoth
55	Luminous
60	Baroque
70	Deep-water
80	Prismatic
100	Starved

Skeleton: Menace	Text
0	Creature
1	Animal
2	Beast
3	Monster
4	Monstrosity
5	Demon
6+	Abomination

A player-created Guide is available for this content: Assembling a Skeleton (Guide)

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From: Assemble a Skeleton

It will be more striking than convincing. But with enough skill, you might make it look less unnatural.

Game Instructions: Even on success, this will always make your skeleton a bit more implausible. Success makes the effect less severe.

Unlocked with Skeleton: Skulls Needed, 1 x Bright Brass Skull, 200 x Nevercold Brass Sliver

Challenge information

Narrow, Mithridacy 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

Brass plating on the vertebrae

[…] Suggest that there was a natural process of replacement going on, metal for bone […]

[…] anyone with a scientific mind will still have questions. But you cannot avoid an artistic satisfaction when at last it's all done.

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•  You've lost 1 x Bright Brass Skull
•  You've gained 6500 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
•  You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Skulls Needed
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Skulls
•  Your skeleton has become less believable. (Raises Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility by 2)
•  You've lost 200 x Nevercold Brass Sliver

Failure

How to explain that?

Could you persuade a gullible anthropologist that this skeleton results from unusual burial rites? Perhaps the deceased lost his head, and the grieving family forged a replacement before committing him to the grave?

•  You've lost 1 x Bright Brass Skull
•  You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Skulls Needed
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Skulls
•  Your skeleton challenges belief. (Raises Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility by 6)
•  You've gained 6000 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies