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ID: 264170

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From: Genii Locorum

What are they hoping for, when they leave lumps of amber and fragments of bone?

Unlocked with Exploration of a Hinterland City 30, Hinterland City - Founding Body is: Cornelius

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 150

• 103 - very chancy (41%)
• 128 - chancy (51%)
• 153 - modest (61%)
• 178 - very modest (71%)
• 203 - low-risk (81%)
• 228 - straightforward (91%)
• 250 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Mithridacy 7 (50% base)

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

Success

Help wanted

A boy [...] stops and contemplates the bone and amber heap visible in a window. He knocks on the door [...] and offers his services.

The old widow is delighted with him. A little while later, the offering is taken [...] and buried just by the front stoop of the house.

[...]

Description summary:
The third paragraph varies based on the city's Hinterland City - Official Alignment.

Alignment	Third Paragraph
Liberationist, Radical Liberationist, Emancipationist, Anti-Emancipationist	Cornelius did think that there could be some creature to fill every gap and serve every need; and that if they couldn't be found, then they could be made. The boy looks human, but perhaps the old lady is not a stickler about methods.
Anti-Prehistoricist	Cornelius did think that there could be some creature to fill every gap [...]; and that if they couldn't be found, then they could be made. Prehistoricism may be outcast [...] so the principles must be fulfilled by well-chosen humans and not by bone-beasts.

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• Watchful is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

Incomprehensible

You rarely find the people leaving these, either. And it doesn't seem to be a Rubbery observance.

• Watchful is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  The City Waning is increasing… (+4 CP)
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)