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.

•  Your skeleton looks safer now. (Lowers Skeleton: Menace by 2 x)

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.

•  You've gained 1 x Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility (up to 14)

In addition, if Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility > 8:

•  You've lost 50 x Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies