Begin a theoretical dissection

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From: Unanticipated Ecologies


You are occupied with a gap in the field. Employing past principles may shed light on your current area of study.

Locked with Librarian's Progress 200


Challenge information

Narrow, Monstrous Anatomy 2 (50% base)

  • 0 - high-risk (30%)
  • 1 - tough (40%)
  • 2 - very chancy (50%)
  • 3 - chancy (60%)
  • 4 - modest (70%)
  • 5 - very modest (80%)
  • 6 - low-risk (90%)
  • 7 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

A gap in the record

It is thirsty labour to invent the dead […] But at last, you have identified the characteristics of your missing link. It is a purely hypothetical creation, but it provides supporting evidence for the impact of your study upon the natural world.

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Failure

A triumph of imagination

[…] you work until all of your candles have burned low, turning the hypothetical creature into a study of flesh and blood and bone. […] you […] realise […] that the density of your imagined creature's frame […] would instantly crush […] its internal organs to dust.

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