Analyse the aftermath

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From: Quite a Mess to Clean Up


You have worked wonders. Each splatter and stain testifies.

Game Instructions: Success will increase the Naturalist's Acceptance, Malleability, and Cunning.


Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 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

A hypothesis successfully tested

The Youthful Naturalist is still slumped in the tub. [...] In his hands, he holds surplus. He stretches it, carefully, to examine.

It's him. [...] His own skin, sloughed.

There's more where that came from: draped over chairs, folded on the bed [...] piled into corners. [...]


Failure

Straining to comprehend

Your head pounds from inhaling fumes. You can't tell one substance from the next. Just debris on the floor, [...] needles and threads tangled into clumps. Your own journals are indecipherable. It's as though you recorded these notes in a fugue state.