Break open your unaugmented scarlet egg
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From: Bring Up your Egg or The Trials of Patience
The shell can be crushed.
Unlocked with Scarlet Egg, Untreated
Challenge information
A matter of luck: The odds are against you here (success chance: 40%)
Success
All but empty
Was the egg a dud? No – as the last piece of shell falls away, a sound rips free. It howls through your heart[…] leaving nothing but the missing-tooth-gap of something almost remembered.
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- You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
- You've gained 3 x Memory of Distant Shores
- You've lost 1 x Scarlet Egg, Untreated
- You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)
Alternative Success
All but empty
Could this be a decoy egg? Some creatures lay them away from the nest to protect the greater part of their brood. But that must mean—! And what would be a predator of a creature that lays eggs this size?
- You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
- You've gained 3-5? x Romantic Notion
- You've lost 1 x Scarlet Egg, Untreated
- You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)
Failure
Nothing?
The egg is a dud. It is empty. Utterly valueless. However, this pile of paper that you'd used to stop it shifting too close to the fire contains far more than you'd first assumed.
- You've gained 3 x Compromising Document
- You've lost 1 x Scarlet Egg, Untreated
- You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)
Alternative Failure
Residual heat
The shards of egg shell possess a heat far greater than your hearth could cause. The eyebrow singeing contents provide the explanation. Although, little light is shed on how it got in there.
- You've gained 1 x Correspondence Plaque
- You've lost 1 x Scarlet Egg, Untreated
- You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)
Categories:
- Whitsun
- Scarlet Egg, Untreated
- Luck
- Under-length Descriptions
- Actions
- Aeolian Scream Gain
- Memory of Distant Shores Gain
- Scarlet Egg, Untreated Loss
- Possessing an Egg Loss
- Multiple Successes
- Extraordinary Implication Gain
- Romantic Notion Gain
- Pages with unknown Gain or Loss numbers
- Compromising Document Gain
- Multiple Failures
- Correspondence Plaque Gain