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.

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