Make a few discreet inquiries

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Look over the smaller stalls; strike up a conversation with a few buyers.

Game Instructions: This will give you some clues about this week's condition of the bone market.

Unlocked with Bone Market Fluctuations: is present (World Quality, now available), Zoological Mania: is present (World Quality, now available), Occasional Buyer: is present (World Quality, now available)

Success

Who's buying?

[see tables below]

Description summary:
The description will vary based on the current status of the World Qualities.

Bone Market Fluctuations:	First Paragraph
Antiquity	You catch one seller adding an extra zero to the estimated age of his skeleton. "There is a mania for very old skeletons," he tells you. "All the usual buyers are finding that they have to offer higher prices."
Amalgamy	Even the more staid sellers have added twisted bones and amalgamous creatures to their displays. "Rubbery this, amalgamous that," […] "'s all anyone cares about now. No respect for a good, respectable fossil that knows its place."
Menace	The urchins that often scutter about the bone market, gawking at the merchandise, are ever more present […] "Cor," you hear one exclaim. "That's a proper terrifyin' one." Indeed, it seems like interest in the threatening and the macabre is at a peak.

Zoological Mania:	Second Paragraph
Reptiles	This week, the Carpenter's Granddaughter is giving a lecture on reptile evolution. Accordingly, there is a furore over dinosaur skeletons, some of which have been sold for unseemly prices.
Amphibians	Amphibians seem to be in fashion, perhaps as buyers have come to regard dinosaurs as well-trod ground. You overhear a prospective seller telling his hired illustrator to "make sure it looks moist."
Birds	One seller that normally displays ammonites is instead selling an assortment of feathers. Birds are in vogue, it seems.
Fish	There's a greater-than-usual proportion of zailors and zee-captains in the crowd today; it seems like a fortuitous coincidence in the shore leave schedule of several large vessels. The growing popularity […] has created a rush for fish specimens.
Arachnids	One seller has gamely assembled several bones into a spider-like shape; nobody's tried to challenge him on whether spiders have bones, yet. It seems there's a burgeoning market for this kind of thing, for the moment.
Insects	The Bone Market is crawling with bugs – trilobites both realistic and improbable, colossal meganeura dragonflies, animals evolving either out of being crabs or back into being crabs. Above all, there is a great deal of interest in insects.
Primates	It looks like the entire anthropology department from Benthic College is here today, examining skeletons for a possible missing link.

Occasional Buyer:	Third Paragraph
An Enthusiast in Skulls	A notorious Enthusiast in Skulls is browsing the stalls this week, interested in buying the skeleton with the most heads.
A Dreary Midnighter	A Dreary Midnighter is browsing the stalls this week. Nobody can say what his purpose here is, but he only seems interested in the most dully plausible skeletons.
A Colourful Phantasist	The Colourful Phantasist has made an appearance at the bone market. She purchases the most outlandish skeletons she can find.
An Ingenuous Malacologist	An Ingenuous Malacologist is browsing the stalls this week, expressing an interest in fossils with tentacles.
An Enterprising Boot Salesman	An Enterprising Boot Salesman is browsing the stalls this week, looking to buy the skeleton with the most legs.

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Success Instructions: Conditions in the Bone Market will shift every Tuesday at 11AM UTC; take advantage of this information before then!