Dissect an anomalous carcass

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From: The Business of a Monster-Hunter


The Department of Esoteric Cryptozoology at Benthic has procured a specimen that could be the holotype for a whole new species.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 10 - 40, A Professional Specialisation: Teratomancer


Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 140

  • 96 - very chancy (41%)
  • 119 - chancy (51%)
  • 143 - modest (61%)
  • 166 - very modest (71%)
  • 189 - low-risk (81%)
  • 213 - straightforward (91%)
  • 234 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Monstrous Anatomy 10 (50% base)

  • 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 7 - high-risk (20%)
  • 8 - high-risk (30%)
  • 9 - tough (40%)
  • 10 - very chancy (50%)
  • 11 - chancy (60%)
  • 12 - modest (70%)
  • 13 - very modest (80%)
  • 14 - low-risk (90%)
  • 15 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Hapax tethrammenon

[…] you extract a vast and cavernous past.

[…] A quickened and painful Ascent, aborted early. The Expulsion, and the Trench of the Pariahs, with its […] chimneys of smoke. […]

Shoulder-deep in a peligin Methuselah, you hold fast against a riptide of history.

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Failure

Unknown unknowns

[…] In the meat-wet pool of inscrutable viscera lies a future too vast, too different, to comprehend. A depth and darkness so complete that peligin itself is crushed […]

The assembled academics are unable to extract useful insight from your whimpers. […]

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