Make an alteration to the vessel, and its purpose

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From: Embattled with the Ushabti-Vessel

Given a deep enough understanding of what animates it and how it was constructed, one might – might – be able to make certain changes...

Unlocked with Parabolan Quarry exactly 400 (Search Parabola for a Second City vessel), A Survivor of the Affair of the Ushabti, 2 x Expertise of the Second City, 100 x Venom-Ruby, Limestone Dissection, 100 x Holy Sanguinarine Ointment, 1 x Emetic Revelation, 5 x Discriminating Aconite, Discovered: The Sere Palace

Locked with A Stalking Stone Shadow Beyond the Glass

Challenge information

Broad, Dangerous 400

• 274 - very chancy (41%)
• 340 - chancy (51%)
• 407 - modest (61%)
• 474 - very modest (71%)
• 540 - low-risk (81%)
• 607 - straightforward (91%)
• 667 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 2 (50% base)

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

Dangerous, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of (100 + 20 × Parabolan Ferocity).
The above example is at Parabolan Ferocity 15.

Success

Exchanges

[…] Parabola has made it wild, overgrown: […] Into the verdant mass you pour the solution you have […] prepared.

[…] Quickly […] Let the thing go […] You will never see it again.

[…] The […] daily swirl of rumour and falsehood will […] favour you a little more often than not. […]

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

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  You are no longer on the track of any quarry. (Removes Partly Pursued)
•  Your 'Parabolan Quarry' Quality has gone!
•  Your quarry has become less fierce. (Removes Parabolan Ferocity)
•  You've gained 1 x Dream-Trophies of Parabola
•  You've lost 100 x Venom-Ruby
•  You've lost 100 x Holy Sanguinarine Ointment
•  You've lost 1 x Emetic Revelation
•  You've lost 2 x Expertise of the Second City
•  You've lost 5 x Discriminating Aconite
•  You now have 1 x A Stalking Stone Shadow Beyond the Glass

Failure

Uninterested

It doesn't listen to you. Instead, it shoves you into a thicket of Parabolan brambles and runs off – you'll be picking thorns out of your skin for days.

• Dangerous is increasing…
•  Wounds is increasing… (+5 CP)