Break open your unaugmented percipient egg

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From: Bring Up your Egg or The Trials of Patience

The shell can be cracked, so crack it you shall.

Description summary:
The game instructions vary based on whether the egg cost a Ha'penny.

Ha'penny Cost	Game Instructions
0	This will yield the remains of what was inside, but not a living companion.
1	This will yield the remains of what was inside, but not a living companion. It will refund your ha'penny.

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Unlocked with Percipient Egg, Untreated

Challenge information

A matter of luck: The odds are against you here (success chance: 40%)

Success

Delicate

Did you hit too hard? Or does the size of the egg belie its fragility? Like a Clay Man in love, size does not mean a thing cannot be carelessly shattered.

•  You've gained 1 x Touching Love Story
•  You've gained 4 x Appalling Secret
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Percipient Egg, Untreated
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Alternative Success

A formidable suggestion

[…] Inside […] is a chunk of rock. No, not rock – more like a thick carapace, that almost resembles the stone that forms the frames around the doors to the Bazaar. On its side is a carving. […]

[…] could it have been secreted by the Bazaar itself? […]

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•  You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
•  You've gained 3 x Tale of Terror!!
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Percipient Egg, Untreated
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Failure

Always unviable

The shell fractures in a cobweb pattern, following lines of imperceptible weakness. There is no albumen, the inner shell is dry. These red stones are all that remains of whatever creature was never going to be.

•  You've gained 5 x Venom-Ruby
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Percipient Egg, Untreated
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Alternative Failure

A dud

The shell fractures readily […] It's a good thing you put those papers down, or your carpet would be ruin—

Actually, what has the liquid done to the papers? Where it has soaked in, the yolk has revealed ink that wasn't visible before. […]

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•  You've gained 3 x Compromising Document
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Percipient Egg, Untreated
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)