Smash open your partially enlightened egg (Percipient)

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From: Bring Up your Egg

Perhaps no wisdom at all is preferable to a partial knowledge.

Description summary:
The game instructions vary based on whether the egg cost a Ha'penny.

Ha'penny Cost	Game Instructions
0	This will yield the remains of what was inside, but not a living companion.
1	This will yield the remains of what was inside, but not a living companion. It will refund your ha'penny.

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Unlocked with Partially Enlightened Percipient Egg

Challenge information

A matter of luck: The odds are against you here (success chance: 40%)

Success

Contorted

Bones – misshaped, stretched – tumble from the shell, breaking on contact with the ground. If you arrange them as looks fit, the creature could have been something almost canine. But everything is altogether too long. More antelope, or giraffe, even. […]

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•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Percipient Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x Obsidian Chitin Tail
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

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Alternative Success

A disarray of limbs

[…] stench rises from the tangle of corpse-parts at the centre […] you've acquired a scented handkerchief through which to breathe […] Most are clearly to be discarded, but the thing had a tail that, at least, could be passed off as a Tomb-Lion's. […]

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•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Percipient Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x Tomb-Lion's Tail
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Redirects to: Bring Up your Egg

Failure

Not the original contents

The shell shatters to reveal two immediately recognisable furry bundles. Have you upset someone lately? Or is this some obscure Rattus Faber game?

•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Percipient Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 2 x Venge-Rat Corpse
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Redirects to: Bring Up your Egg

Alternative Failure

Vicious

[…] you smashed this egg now, and didn't let it develop to viability. What creature could have three such stingers? Even now, they dribble with poison. Living, such a thing would undoubtedly pose a threat. Now, however, it only menaces your dustpan.

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•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Percipient Egg
•  You've gained 3 x Jet Black Stinger
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Redirects to: Bring Up your Egg