Make your skeleton less dreadful

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From: Assemble a Skeleton


Fewer spikes and thorns, shorter teeth, larger eyes. You could make this thing seem less horrible, surely.

Game Instructions: If successful, this will decrease the Menace of your skeleton. If unsuccessful, it will raise the Implausibility up to a point, and lower its value if it's already very implausible.

Unlocked with Skeleton: Menace, Patent Osteological Sand and Wax, Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies 300

Locked with Skeleton: Skulls Needed, Skeleton: Limbs Needed, Skeleton: Tails Needed, Skeleton in Progress 100


Challenge information

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 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

Grinding down

Grit and acid take away the sharp points of the skeleton. Gleaming wax adds lustre and willingness to please.


Failure

Too smooth? Too false?

You work at polishing and smoothing down, at calming and rendering innocent. The results simply make the skeleton resemble a plaster cast.
In addition, if Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility > 8: