The Osteology Lab
| A player-created Guide is available for this content: The Prelapsarian Museum (Guide) |
| Spoiler warning! This page contains details about Fallen London Actions. |
Unlocked with 
Volume of your Cryptopalaeontological Work, 
State of the Prelapsarian Museum: is Complete (World Quality, now available)
Storylet appears in 
The Museum of Prelapsarian History
Options:
Identify the femur of a Jurassic beast
- Spoiler Unlocked with
1 x Femur of a Jurassic Beast
Locked with
Bone under Examination:
Success
A leg to stand on
You've lost 1 x Femur of a Jurassic Beast
An occurrence! Your 'Bone under Examination:' Quality is now A Femur, Possibly Jurassic!
An occurrence! Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality is now Dinosaur!
Identify a fossilized forelimb
- Spoiler Unlocked with
1 x Fossilised Forelimb
Locked with Bone under Examination:
Success
Menacing
You've lost 1 x Fossilised Forelimb- An occurrence! Your 'Bone under Examination:' Quality is now The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast!
- An occurrence! Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality is now Dinosaur!
Assert that the specimen is (first option)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Proposed Taxon: is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod, Bone under Examination: is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
Challenge information
Narrow,
Identifying... 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)Success
Identified
- An occurrence! Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality is now (10 *
Proposed Taxon:) + 1! 
'Identifying...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
Failure
No, not quite
- Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)
Assert that the creature is (second option)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Proposed Taxon: is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod, Bone under Examination: is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
Challenge information
Narrow,
Identifying... 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)Success
Identified
- An occurrence! Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality is now (10 * Proposed Taxon:) + 2!
- 'Identifying...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
Failure
No, not quite
- Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)
Catalogue its morphology
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Proposed Taxon: is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod, Bone under Examination: is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
Challenge information
Broad,
Watchful 120 || 82 - very chancy (41%) || 102 - chancy (51%) || 122 - modest (61%) || 142 - very modest (71%) || 162 - low-risk (81%) || 182 - straightforward (91%) || 200 - straightforward (100%)Success
Of course!
- Identifying... is increasing… (+3 CP)
Failure
Unhelpful
- Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)
Analyse its composition
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Proposed Taxon: is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod, 
10 x Flask of Abominable Salts, Bone under Examination: is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
Challenge information
Narrow,
Kataleptic Toxicology 1 (50% base) || 0 - tough (40%) || 1 - very chancy (50%) || 2 - chancy (60%) || 3 - modest (70%) || 4 - very modest (80%) || 5 - low-risk (90%) || 6 and above - straightforward (100%)Success
Aha!
- Identifying... is increasing… (+4 CP)
You've lost 10 x Flask of Abominable Salts
Failure
Curses
- Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)
Compare its anatomy to extant creatures
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Proposed Taxon: is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod, Bone under Examination: is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
Challenge information
Narrow,
Monstrous Anatomy 7 (50% base) || 3 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 4 - high-risk (20%) || 5 - high-risk (30%) || 6 - tough (40%) || 7 - very chancy (50%) || 8 - chancy (60%) || 9 - modest (70%) || 10 - very modest (80%) || 11 - low-risk (90%) || 12 and above - straightforward (100%)Success
Form and function
- Identifying... is increasing… (+4 CP)
Failure
Confusion
- Identifying... is increasing… (+1 CP)
Request help from a University colleague
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Unwelcome at the University - A Respectable Academic, Proposed Taxon: is: Dinosaur, Saurischian, Ornithischian, Sauropod, Theropod, Stegosaurian, Ornithopod, Bone under Examination: is: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic or The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
Challenge information
Broad,
Persuasive 180 || 123 - very chancy (41%) || 153 - chancy (51%) || 183 - modest (61%) || 213 - very modest (71%) || 244 - low-risk (81%) || 273 - straightforward (91%) || 300 - straightforward (100%)Success
Helpful
Persuasive is increasing…- Identifying... is increasing… (+6 CP)
Failure
Unhelpful
- Persuasive is increasing…
Scandal is increasing… (+1 CP)
Complete a monograph on the subject
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Proposed Taxon: Diplodocus, Titanosaurus, Allosaurus, Coelurus, Stegosaurus, Polacanthus, Iguanodon, Hadrosaurus, Bone under Examination: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic, The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast
Success
Published
- Your 'Bone under Examination:' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Proposed Taxon:' Quality has gone!
You've gained 1 x Palaeozoologist
With
Bone under Examination: A Femur, Possibly Jurassic:
You've gained 6500 x Curator's Gratitude
With
Bone under Examination: The Forelimb of an Unidentified Beast:
- You've gained 8750 x Curator's Gratitude
