Apply an Ivory Humerus to your (Skeleton Type)

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The fraud depends on achieving just the right chemical changes to the surface colour and texture.

Game Instructions: Failure here will increase the Implausibility of your skeleton. The Ivory Humerus adds reasonably to the value of the skeleton.

Unlocked with Skeleton: Limbs Needed, 1 x Ivory Humerus

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, 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

The most delicate touch of colour

A chemical compound of tea and venom will do the trick.

•  You've gained 1500 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
• You've lost 1 x Ivory Humerus
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Arms
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed

Failure

Wrong

The tint makes the ivory more orange. This does not make it look more like bone. A tactical error, but one it is now too late to recover.

•  You've gained 1500 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
• You've lost 1 x Ivory Humerus
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Arms
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed
•  You've gained 2 x Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility

Rare Failure

Wrong. Painfully wrong.

The tint makes the ivory more orange. This was not the intended effect.

In addition, the stuff burns a hole in your table, your garments, and the uppermost skin of your leg.

•  You've gained 1500 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
• You've lost 1 x Ivory Humerus
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Arms
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Limbs Needed
•  You've gained 2 x Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)