Duplicate the skull of John the Baptist, if you can call that a skull

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From: Assemble a Skeleton

Its substance is, after all, partially vegetable. What might it contribute to this skeleton?

Game Instructions: This will make your skeleton support a Counter-church Theology.

Unlocked with Skeleton: Skulls Needed, Device for the Duplication of Bones, 500 x Bone Fragments, Counterfeit Head of John the Baptist, 10 x Hand-picked Peppercaps

Challenge information

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 5 (50% base)

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

Success

Bright white

The skull looks like any other, except for the burning sigil on its brow, the brightness of the bone, and the way it scatters spores wherever you set it down.

•  You've gained 1250 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies
• You've lost 1 x Skeleton: Skulls Needed
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Skulls
• You've lost 500 x Bone Fragments
•  Artisan of the Red Science is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5 + Artisan Studies)
• You've lost 10 x Hand-picked Peppercaps
•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Support for a Counter-church Theology

Failure

Is there such a thing as a sympathy migraine?

The Counterfeit Skull of the Counterfeit Head collapses inward on itself, thick fungal strands forming behind the eye sockets. […] On its brow is a sigil of the Correspondence, reading 'ONE ABLE TO DANCE ONLY WHEN THERE IS AN AUDIENCE.'

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•  Artisan of the Red Science is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 5 + Artisan Studies)
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)