Extract regretful shapes from a Fluke-Core

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From: Draw on your Knowledge of the Shapeling Arts

In the curlicues of its crystalline structure, the fluke-core remembers the detritus of extinctions past.

Unlocked with 1 x Fluke-Core

Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 3 (50% base)

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

Narrow, Shapeling Arts 4 (50% base)

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

Success

Recollections

Long, bent shells that trapped air until the oceans became too dense, and crushed them. Delicate wings turned to gossamer webs that filtered food out of the air, until the air grew too hot for fragile and flammable things.

•  You've gained 1 x Unavoidable Epiphany
•  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

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Laboratory Research	6	8	10	12	15	18	20	23	25	27	29	30	31	32	33	33	34

Failure

Tragedy

Examination of the fluke-core shows a shape that always recurs, never to a good end: Two legs, two arms, one head, standing awkwardly upright.

•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  You've gained (see below) x Laboratory Research

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Laboratory Research	3	4	5	6	7	9	10	11	13	14	15	16	17	18	18	19	19