Analyse the fauna of Hell

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From: Unanticipated Ecologies


There are specimens in your library, and studies where your taxidermy runs out.

Unlocked with Lead: Ecology 430-433

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 177

  • 121 - very chancy (41%)
  • 151 - chancy (51%)
  • 180 - modest (61%)
  • 210 - very modest (71%)
  • 239 - low-risk (81%)
  • 269 - straightforward (91%)
  • 295 - straightforward (100%)

Success

The bestiaries of Hell

Description summary:
The description varies based on your level of Lead: Ecology.

Lead: EcologyDescription
431Research into the fish of the rivers of Hell […] requires a cross-reference of Parabolan Studies, Ecology, Anatomy and Liminology. But, when your head stops aching, you find several […] leads. Some […] have been believed dead for a very very long time.
432Emerald graves were found on a mound close to Burrow. […] An elderly deacon at St Dunstan's has provided a much censured taxonomy. You locate an original in one of his dying dreams […] Those buried there had a fascinating afterlife, it transpires...
433There is a vein of silver that runs like marrow beneath an ancient shrine of Hell. Great beasts flock there to feast upon it with diamond-hard teeth. […] it is the only explanation that covers the repeat drawings you find in a dozen anatomical works. […]
434[…] The vast beclawed limbs of a corpse were uncovered at Ealing and were both distressing in size (cathedral-tower shaped) and their propensity to disappear and reappear at alarming junctures. You go and clear a wing of your library in case.

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Failure

There before you

It is said revolutions are built on the bones of the former regime. If that is the case, the former regime had some very large bones indeed. Your monograph […] is […] eclipsed […] when a[…] palaeontologist publishes a counter-response. […] she […] planted the forgery […]

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