Smash open your partially invigorated percipient egg

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From: Bring Up your Egg

It thrums with life. The perfect moment to crush it.

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

Unlocked with Partially Invigorated Percipient Egg

Challenge information

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

Success

A stone's fossil

A hammer creates a neat hole in the shell. […] The egg's fluid turns a purple grey, releasing a strong aroma of crushed dandelions and brine. All that is left, once you've cleared up, is a shiny stone. Could the nascent creature have had a gallstone?

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• You've lost 1 x Partially Invigorated Percipient Egg
• Your 'Invigorating Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 5 x Memory of Distant Shores
•  You've gained 1 x Ostentatious Diamond
•  You've gained 1 x Amber Ha'penny
• You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

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Alternative Success

A spray of gelatinous liquid

The first tap […] shattered shell and contents flying across your parlour. […] The room is coated in a gelatinous, translucent liquid – one which seems appealing to a particular species of bug, which crawls from every nook in your living room […]

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• You've lost 1 x Partially Invigorated Percipient Egg
• Your 'Invigorating Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 1 x Memory of a Much Lesser Self
•  You've gained 15 x Phosphorescent Scarab
•  You've gained 1 x Amber Ha'penny
• You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

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Failure

Embedded

Shards of shell fall away, crumbling into your carpet. […] Whatever was growing inside is slowly liquifying […] Stuck on the inside of the point of the shell are a handful of rocks. Were they part of the growing animal? Or some flaw in the laying process?

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• You've lost 1 x Partially Invigorated Percipient Egg
• Your 'Invigorating Treatment' Quality has gone!
•  You've gained 5 x Flawed Diamond
•  You've gained 1 x Amber Ha'penny
• You've lost 1 x Possessing an Egg (hidden)

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Alternative Failure

Nothing?

[…] there is absolutely nothing of value in this egg. […]

But what's this? […] you spot some of the packing from the wheelbarrow. The egg seller can't have realised the value of the cloth he used to protect the egg while you trundled it home.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• You've lost 1 x Partially Invigorated Percipient Egg
•  You've gained 3 x Whisper-Satin Scrap
•  You've gained 1 x Amber Ha'penny
• Your 'Invigorating Treatment' Quality has gone!

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