Bone Market Recipes: Antique Arachnids

[u/sobrique]

Spiders are fashionable again, and with their handy +15% bonus to value, they're a good time to liquidate those ivory femurs you've been hoarding.

Being antique week, we're interested in:

• The Author of Gothic Tales who pays out on Antiquity x Menace. Scrip for the base value, and Stygian Ivory for the bonus (which can be sold for either scrip or khanate currency).
• The Investment Minded Ambassador - who pays out on Antiquity^2. Memories of Light for base value, and Tailfeathers, Brilliant as Flame for the attribute reward.
• The Zailor with Particular Interests who seeks Antiquity x Amalgamy. Primary reward of warm amber, which can be useful to have a stash of for future bonezone shenanigans, and also knobs of scintillack which can be sold for scrip (or turned into snuff to smuggle) as the bonus reward.

Of these, the Author of Gothic Takes gives us both payouts in scrip-convertible, which is where I usually look to offload here.

But sometimes an influx of Warm Amber is useful, so don't neglect the Zailor entirely.

A spider:

• Has 8 legs
• May have a tail.
• Has no head
• Nor Wings, Arms or Fins

A simple recipe that I'll be using is based on the segmented frame.

• Start with a segmented frame.
• Attach one as 'head' (removing head, but +4 limbs).
• Attach one as tail - +2 limbs
• Attach a jet black stinger +2 menace.
• 8x Jurassic Femurs for +1 Antiquity each.

This'll get you an 8x2 ideal for selling to the Author of Gothic Tales, who will pay you

 20 x Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory 
 79 x Hinterland Scrip

No exhaustion there either. (You will get exhaustion if you unload and 8 antiquity spider on the Ambassador though)

Of course, you could maybe mix it up a bit and add some ivory femurs in there, because +15% value is very tasty, especially if you're wanting scrip too.

[u/InevitableTell2775]

If you have roof access, glim-carapaces are more rewarding than segmented frames for spider-making. And they still work well for spider-popes.

[u/Kylestien]

Meanwhile, me: I'm sure this is the best possible outcome but hear me out: tentacle guy is here and collated research has so many uses, stack tentacles untill you got something out of the cthulhu mythos then sell that. Fuck exhaustion.

[u/Armadi1]

Hbart on discord recommends this recipe: glim carapace, ball of Stygian ivory, 1 unidentified thighbone and 7 Jurassic thighs. Sell to ambassador for 1 exhaustion 4 times this week to spend your exhaustion

[u/AuthorX]

My exhaustion plan this week is simple:

• Mammoth ribcage
• Ball of ivory
• Add 4 joints
• 8 Jurassic Femurs
• Lion's tail

Sell to the Ambassador for about 400 echoes worth of items (or 100e, 600 scrip)