Break open your unaugmented pelagic egg
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From: Bring Up your Egg or The Trials of Patience
The membrane can be pierced without much effort.
Unlocked with 
Pelagic Egg, Untreated
Challenge information
A matter of luck: The odds are against you here (success chance: 40%)
Success
Annotated
Your egg deflates with a sigh, puddling around its cherished charge: a small bundle of black- and rust-coloured bones. Notches and whorls writhe around every inch of ivory like script. No one has been at your eggs before you – did it grow like this?
You've gained 1 x Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory
You've lost 1 x Pelagic Egg, Untreated
You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)
Alternative Success
A melancholy thought
[...] not dissimilar in texture to the Bazaar's spires. Within that lies a hodgepodge [...]
The carapace suggests this was the Bazaar's own egg[...] Is it trying to improve on itself[..] Or can it simply not remember what it was like to be young?- You've lost 1 x Pelagic Egg, Untreated
You've gained 1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
You've gained 2 x Withered Tentacle- You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)
Failure
A message?
The liquid within the egg reacts violently to the air [...] freezing solid in a series of sharp rifle-cracks. [...]
By the time the ice melts nothing remains of your egg – except for three chitinous plates, each engraved with a single, steaming sigil.
You've gained 3 x Correspondence Plaque- You've lost 1 x Pelagic Egg, Untreated
- You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)
Alternative Failure
Empty
A careful incision reveals nothing but an oily greenish fluid that seeps slowly out of the egg-sac. It reeks of salt and sewage, and seems diametrically opposed to the fostering of life. Perhaps this was a dud?
You've gained 5 x Flask of Abominable Salts- You've lost 1 x Pelagic Egg, Untreated
- You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)
