Crack open a crate

ID: 250910

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From: Deliver a Crate from the Khanate

Surely whatever is inside is more valuable than whatever the Widow would pay?

Game Instructions: Contents of crates are highly variable. The only constant is that you will lose some Connected: The Widow.

Success

(see below)

Description summary:
The title and description varies based on your Crate Contents.

Crate Contents	Title	Description
1	Something hateful	Egad! Who smuggles a marsh-wolf? What was that thing even doing in the Khanate?
2	Something osseous	A bone of no particular description, nestled in straw. Without knowing the provenance, its value is a mystery.
3	Something grisly	Your zailors cringe as the lid comes off the box. The severed arm looks relatively fresh – is it a warning? A trophy?
4	Something powdery	The crate is filled with small boxes full of fine, dry, silvery powder. Fascinating. Perhaps the Widow is branching out.
5	Something quiet	Carefully packed in straw and wrapped in paper: a bottle. It seems empty at first, but shaking it reveals the soul nestled within, still as the becalmed zee.
6	Something ancient	The crate contains a great deal of packing straw and a single envelope. Inside is a single echo; completely familiar to you, yet not at all like the coins and bills that circulate in London.
7	Something forged	The crate contains a consignment of mundane crockery that's not worth holding on to. But nestled inside a teapot: a few sheaves of paper bearing familiar seals. The work of an expert forger, perhaps.
8	Something heavy	This crate was packed end to end with books – mostly penny romances and old pamphlets. But a few seem unusual – is that a third edition of the Manual of Sub-subterranean Stratigraphy? My word.
9	Something brilliant	The crate is packed with cheap tea, not worth holding on to. But buried in the dry, bitter leaves is a gemstone of unusual size.
10	Something sour	The crate is packed full of brutally ugly porcelain figurines, the kind that even the greatest enthusiast of nostalgic crockery would sooner smash out of shame […] But there – hiding among the packing straw […] is a bottle with a horse's head stopper.

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•  Connected: The Widow is dropping… (-2 CP)
•  You've lost 1 x Unassuming Crate
•  An occurrence! Your 'Crate Contents' Quality is now 1-10! (hidden)

With Crate Contents exactly 1:

•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)

With Crate Contents exactly 2:

•  You've gained 1 x Unidentified Thigh Bone

With Crate Contents exactly 3:

•  You've gained 1 x Human Arm

With Crate Contents exactly 4:

•  You've gained 1 x Consignment of Scintillack Snuff

With Crate Contents exactly 5:

•  You've gained 1 x Silent Soul

With Crate Contents exactly 6:

•  You've gained 1 x Fourth-City Echo

With Crate Contents exactly 7:

•  You've gained 1-2 x Bazaar Permit

With Crate Contents exactly 8:

•  You've gained 3 x Uncanny Incunabulum

With Crate Contents exactly 9:

•  You've gained 3 x Magnificent Diamond

With Crate Contents exactly 10:

•  You've gained 1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise