Smash open your partially enlightened egg (Scarlet)

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From: Bring Up your Egg

It's already starting to crack.

Game Instructions: This will yield the remains of what was inside, but not a living companion.

Unlocked with Partially Enlightened Scarlet Egg

Challenge information

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

Success

All but empty

Could this be a decoy egg? Some creatures lay them away from the nest to protect the greater part of their brood. But that must mean—! And what would be a predator of a creature that lays eggs this size?

•  You've gained 5 x Romantic Notion
•  You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Scarlet Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Redirects to: Bring Up your Egg

Alternative Success

All but empty

Was the egg a dud? No – as the last piece of shell falls away, a sound rips free. It howls through your heart and up the chimney, leaving nothing but the missing-tooth-gap of something almost remembered.

•  You've gained 3 x Memory of Distant Shores
•  You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream
•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Scarlet Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Redirects to: Bring Up your Egg

Failure

Nothing?

The egg is a dud. It is empty. Utterly valueless. However, this pile of paper that you'd used to stop it shifting too close to the fire contains far more than you'd first assumed.

•  You've gained 3 x Compromising Document
•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Scarlet Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Redirects to: Bring Up your Egg

Alternative Failure

Residual heat

The shards of egg shell possess a heat far greater than your hearth could cause. The eyebrow singeing contents provide the explanation. Although, little light is shed on how it got in there.

•  You've gained 1 x Correspondence Plaque
•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Scarlet Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Redirects to: Bring Up your Egg