Help interpret Hinterland fossils (Prehistoricist)

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From: Lend Cornelius a Hand

Description summary:
This action's title and description vary based on your Exploration of a Hinterland City.

Exploration	Title	Description
5 - 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, Hinterland City - Official Alignment is: Liberationist-Prehistoricist, Prehistoricist, Radical Prehistoricist, or Prehistoricist-Emancipationist

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 180

• 123 - very chancy (41%)
• 153 - chancy (51%)
• 183 - modest (61%)
• 213 - very modest (71%)
• 244 - low-risk (81%)
• 273 - straightforward (91%)
• 300 - 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:
The description varies based on your Exploration of a Hinterland City.

Exploration	Description
5 - 25	[...] They are fragments of an exoskeleton, the shattered surface of something enormous striking the ground [...] The discovery intrigues the [...] citizens. There's much talk of building their own creature like this... even if they don't even know what it is yet. [...]
35	[...] He is delighted with the explanation you provide. He begins to draw sketches of the animal this might have been. It is far too large to be useful within the city, and that probably wasn't its purpose. But one can learn from the example, nonetheless.
47	[...] There are tests you cannot perform on the Cuirass without taking it back to London [...]. But Cornelius enjoys studying the thing from every angle. It suggests someone was scavenging out in these parts a few hundred years ago, too. [...]
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. […] […] You've seen the glow yourself, in a room full of Masters.

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  The City Waning is dropping… (-2 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

A step backwards

The population is pleased to have Cornelius […] They know him. They trust him. You, however... you are less welcome.

[City Name] speculates in the most unflattering way about your intentions and your history and your well-known habit of manipulating affairs […]

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)
• [Airs of Passengers change…] (random) (hidden)