Apply a Knotted Humerus to your (Skeleton Type)

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It takes work to convince anyone that this is natural.

Game Instructions: It will be harder to do this convincingly if the skeleton has fins. The Knotted Humerus will increase the Amalgamy of your skeleton by one.

Unlocked with Skeleton: Limbs Needed, Knotted Humerus

Locked with Skeleton: Skulls

Wiki note: The title of this option varies depending on the Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility and Skeleton: Torso Style of your skeleton.

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%)
  

The difficulty rating is 5 + Skeleton: Legs + Skeleton: Fins.

Success

A few tells

An expert might catch you out, but otherwise, it looks as though this came from a strangely amalgamous creature.

•  You've gained 300 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed
• You've lost 1 x Knotted Humerus
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Arms
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Amalgamy

Failure

Hard to imagine

You try to arrange the arm in a convincing position, but the bend at the point of knotting makes it look like it's reaching in the wrong direction, no matter what you do.

•  You've gained 10 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed
• You've lost 1 x Knotted Humerus
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Arms
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Amalgamy
•  You've gained 2 x Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility