Smash open your partially enlightened pelagic egg

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From: Bring Up your Egg

Perhaps it already knows too much.

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 Pelagic Egg

Challenge information

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

Success

A glittering heap

The fluid within the egg is sticky as honey […] the bluish goop is scrubbed from the floor, your hands, and your forehead (after you absently wipe sweat from your brow with a gummed-up palm). […] egg's contents is revealed: a fist-sized knob of scintillack […]

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•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Pelagic Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x Knob of Scintillack
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Alternative Success

Bones?

Almost lost […] is a curved, thin, shell-like structure. It has an appealing nacreous sheen, appears to be hollow, […] with a tensile strength that belies its thickness. Is this a bone? Surely it can't be the only bone this creature would have had?

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•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Pelagic Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 257-347 x Bone Fragments
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Failure

Scandalous

The remnants within are thin and leathery, […]with a tracery of delicate bones. Long phalanges are connected by a canvas of skin. These are bat wings! But there are bats everywhere in the Neath – why would the parent of this egg want to create new ones?

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•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Pelagic Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 3 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
•  You've gained 2 x Bat Wing
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

Alternative Failure

Anomalous

[…] you would have been hard pressed to determine whether these two lumps of rock were chipped by […] hands, or battered into shape by the […] zee. The truth of the matter – that they seem to have gestated organically, within your Lodgings – defies all logic.

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•  You've lost 1 x Partially Enlightened Pelagic Egg
•  Your 'Enlightening Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 2 x Ambiguous Eolith
•  You've gained ( Ha'penny Cost) x Amber Ha'penny
•  You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

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