Sell him a tentacle-laden skeleton

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From: An Ingenuous Malacologist

Is it a nautiloid? Perhaps some kind of ammonite?

Unlocked with Skeleton: Tentacles 4, Skeleton in Progress 100

Locked with Bone Market Exhaustion 4

Wiki note: The secondary reward is based on the number of tentacle limbs—a tentacle tail does not count as a tentacle.

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 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%)
  

The challenge info shown is obtained at 3 levels of Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility. The base level is (60 × Implausibility), meaning that having zero level of that guarantees a sale.

Success

Fascinating

He beams as he examines the skeleton. Beams and talks; he has many (many) things to tell you on the evolution of molluscs. Did you know goose barnacles are not related to geese?

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  You've gained (1 + (( Value + Bonus) / 250)) x Preserved Surface Blooms
•  You've gained (( Skeleton: Tentacles)^2.2 / 5) x Volume of Collated Research
•  You've gained (( Skeleton: Tentacles)² / 100) x Bone Market Exhaustion (rounded down)

Redirects to: Packing away your Skeleton

Failure

No sale

"Are you sure this is a squid? I'm not sure they're supposed to have bones."

• Shadowy is increasing…
•  Suspicion is increasing… (+2 CP)