Smash open your partially invigorated pelagic egg

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From: Bring Up your Egg


It writhes with life. The perfect moment to split it open.

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

Unlocked with Partially Invigorated Pelagic Egg


Challenge information

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

Success

Petrification

[...] you elect to drain the brackish liquid through a delicate series of funnels, tubes and glass retorts.

Draining the egg, however, seems to have an adverse effect on its contents; [...] The now-encased remains are ophidian, a coil of spindly vertebrae.

Alternative Success

A fish out of water

The rubbery membrane […] spills its wriggling contents all over your floor. Your Lodgings are immediately filled with the stench of brine and urea […] These half-formed creatures were clearly meant for life underwater.

Hang on – this one is still alive. […]

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Failure

Nothing?

What a waste. Despite your efforts, there is absolutely nothing of value in this egg. […]

But what's this? As you clear up the newspaper you had laid down to preserve your floors, your eye lands on a […] heretical headline. This isn't newsprint at all!

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Alternative Failure

Wanderlust

The fluid within the egg evaporates […]into […] vapour. […] You are breathing— the air of a shore a world away from London, and home lies still uncountable miles across the horizon.

[…] Whatever was gestating your egg within had dreams of such faraway places...

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