Apply a Fossilised Forelimb to your (Skeleton Type)

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From: Assemble a Skeleton

What a curiously-formed scapula! How exactly would that attach?

Game Instructions: This will always add at least one point of Antiquity to your skeleton, and two on success.

Unlocked with Skeleton: Limbs Needed, 1 x Fossilised Forelimb

Locked with Skeleton: Skulls Needed

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

Challenge information

Narrow, Monstrous Anatomy 10 (50% base)

• 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 7 - high-risk (20%)
• 8 - high-risk (30%)
• 9 - tough (40%)
• 10 - very chancy (50%)
• 11 - chancy (60%)
• 12 - modest (70%)
• 13 - very modest (80%)
• 14 - low-risk (90%)
• 15 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Miraculous range of motion

It takes several attempts, but in the end you are able to reconstruct a creature with an astonishing range of motion in its arms, able to reach in almost any direction.

•  You've gained 2750 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Arms
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed
• You've lost 1 x Fossilised Forelimb
•  You've gained 2 x Skeleton: Antiquity

Failure

Wrong

The forelimb attaches, but there is something off about the way the shoulder blade connects to the rest of the torso. It is hard to believe the whole skeleton is of the same age.

•  You've gained 2750 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Arms
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed
• You've lost 1 x Fossilised Forelimb
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Antiquity