Help interpret Hinterland fossils (Non-Prehistoricist)

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From: Lend Cornelius a Hand

Description summary:
This card's title and description vary depending on Exploration of a Hinterland City.

Exploration	Title	Description
1 - 25	Help interpret Hinterland fossils	There are things in the ground, beyond the city walls. Cornelius does not know what they are, and the question concerns him.
35	Help interpret Hinterland fossils in light of the story of the Sun and Moon	Cornelius is reconstructing the history of the land hereabout. You know more of it now.
47	Participate in the reconstruction of the Shattered Herald	Is Sun-Blazoned Cuirass really made from part of it?
50+	Share the outcome of your lab work on the Cuirass	It is perhaps an answer to questions in the Hinterland fossil record around here.

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Game Instructions: If successful, this will reduce The City Waning.

Unlocked with Leader of the Tracklayers is: Cornelius, Exploration of a Hinterland City

Locked with Hinterland City - Official Alignment is: Liberationist-Prehistoricist, Prehistoricist, Radical Prehistoricist, or Prehistoricist-Emancipationist

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 200

• 137 - very chancy (41%)
• 170 - chancy (51%)
• 204 - modest (61%)
• 237 - very modest (71%)
• 270 - low-risk (81%)
• 304 - straightforward (91%)
• 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Monstrous Anatomy 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

Advances of understanding

Description summary:
This card's description varies depending on Exploration of a Hinterland City.

Exploration	Description
1 - 25	These are not bones. They are fragments of an exoskeleton […] You have never known a creature of that size, unless you count the Bazaar. Cornelius is intrigued and pleased by your discoveries. The rest of the town has questions […] Is it to any point whatever?
35	[...] He is delighted with the explanation you provide. He begins to draw sketches [...] Of course, he'll have to give some kind of explanation to the other citizens, who think this is all entirely a waste of his time. They keep bringing him disputes to mediate [...]
47	The work is necessarily speculative. There are tests you cannot perform on the Cuirass without taking it back to London […]. But Cornelius enjoys studying the thing […]. It suggests someone was scavenging […] a few hundred years ago, too. […] he is delighted.
50+	Cornelius' reconstructions become more precise than you have ever seen them before. […] He also takes samples of the rock hereabout: small pieces, and only ones that were already broken off. […] "[…] if these are made of [...] the Moon…" […] it is […] You've seen the glow yourself [...]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  The City Waning is dropping… (-2 CP)
•  You've gained (200 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

A step backwards

The population does not entirely trust Cornelius […]

And as for you! You're even less reliable. [City name] speculates in the most unflattering way about […] your well-known habit of manipulating affairs so that you receive all the most interesting bones.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)