An Ingenuous Malacologist

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ID: 341240

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A delighted newcomer to the Neath, he has a lifelong love of molluscs.

Game Instructions: He pays for the value of the skeleton in Preserved Surface Blooms, and rewards the number of tentacles heavily with Collated Research.

Unlocked with a redirect from Sell to an Ingenuous Malacologist

Storylet appears in The Bone Market

Options:

Sell him a tentacle-laden skeleton

•  Spoiler ID: 250348
  

  Unlocked with Skeleton: Tentacles 4, Skeleton in Progress 100
  Locked with Bone Market Exhaustion 4
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Shadowy 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%)
  

  The challenge info shown is obtained at 3 levels of Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility. The base level is (60 × Implausibility), meaning that having zero level of that guarantees a sale.

  Success

  Fascinating

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  You've gained (1 + (( Value + Bonus) / 250)) x Preserved Surface Blooms
  •  You've gained (( Skeleton: Tentacles)^2.2 / 5) x Volume of Collated Research
  •  You've gained (( Skeleton: Tentacles)² / 100) x Bone Market Exhaustion (rounded down)

  Redirects to: Packing away your Skeleton

  Failure

  No sale

  • Shadowy is increasing…
  •  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)

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