This is getting a bit annoying, trying and failing again and again.
Bones don’t go on trees, you know!
Yup, from the tree it takes a few extra steps to convert the fruit into Ivory Femurs.
Naturally this worked for me on one of the few runs where I wasn’t recording. So, still in the quandary of who knows?
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This does seem to have a bit of a quantum effect where observation changes the result 
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I’ve seen the room called Medusa a few times now, but never as the first one, and anyways it’s not like I had the bones to do that one even if I wanted to.
Still no success either.
The hunt continues.
It will never be the first one because the room descriptions depend on your run’s cumulative Among the Dead level, and the game can’t give you Medusa’s pretty high range (AtD 301-325) on first roll.
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So I take it there really is no way to plan for a specific skeleton type.
Has anyone noticed any relationship between the level of Osseous Offerings and the likelihood of finding a relic at the end of a run in the catacombs? In other words, for those who have obtained a relic, were you giving expensive bones or inexpensive bones?
I’m pretty sure I was giving nothing but inexpensive bones when I got it.
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After dozens of trips to the Catacombs, I finally found a relic (The Wheel). It’s almost certainly a coincidence, but while travelling the Upper Airs on the way to the Sous I needed to pass a check with high Cthonosophy, so I equipped max Cthonosophy gear. On arrival at the Sous I also equipped all three of the gear items that you can buy there. I found the relic on my first try during this visit.
Again, it’s most likely a coincidence, but maybe chance of finding a relic is secretly affected by your cthonosophy level? Or the equipped Sous gear items (although that seems even less likely)? Or – most likely – it really is just a random rare success when you’ve made a correct set of offerings.
Regardless, now that I have a relic, is there currently any reason to continue exploring the catacombs other than for getting more Memories of a Much Stranger Self? I know you can’t research another Relic of the Revolution, but is it possible to find other relic bones (Gorgon, Angel, etc)?
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I believe no, there’s no further reason, and you can’t get multiples. (Also part of why it is so hard to research and confirm anything - once anyone gets the one rare success (???) they can no longer contribute to data gathering.)
But so far from everyone’s reports it mostly looks random.
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Thanks for sharing this from Discord.
FWIW, after a few blanks, Cave-In was first room, I plumped for Gorgon recipe & that got this dog a bone, though doubt this is any help. Happy hunting.
… after roughly ten investigative runs, trying to figure something out and of course getting nothing, I succeeded as well at a early-morning-get-rid-of-actions frenzy, so I have no idea what happened.
my take therefore: the game tracks your time & attentions & is waiting for an opportune moment of unattentiveness.
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I started playing Sous chapter recently, and I only give human ribcages because I have an abundance of them, and I’m too stingy to give other bone types.
Does which of the two directions you pick at every checkpoint matter? Or must you offer the ‘correct’ bone type to each location? Which means if you give the ‘wrong’ bone type at one place, you won’t get the relic. 
We still don’t have a complete explanation for how the Relic works at the Sous, other than that you should follow one of the known recipes.
I can say with confidence that the choice of Left vs Right is not recorded by the game, even in hidden qualities, nor is the order that bones are given. Only totals bones given of each type, and bone value. My best guess is that it’s either a hidden quality given by a rare success, or a random roll on Airs.
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Pick one of the recipes from Relics and you’re set: Return to the Upper Airs - Fallen London Wiki. Just make sure you have enough of the bones that can be offered during the week.
EDIT: Wait, those recipes don’t guarantee you get the relic…?
Nope, as far as I know those recipes do not guarantee you get the relic. It’s somehow randomized. We do not know what it depends on, or at what point in the carousel it’s determined whether you can get a relic with one of the recipes.
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I’ve switched to doing a random run any time I’m up there or have actions to spare. It was getting way too tedious traipsing through there without success.
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The relic I did get was just “pick a recipe I can spam for cheap this week, then spam it until it works”.
‘Spam until it works’ suggests it’s not the recipe but some kind of RNG involved. The ambiguity is what frustrates players.
It’s not even well-defined numeric RNG e.g. a 10% success chance.
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.. but did anyone manage to get the relic without following a recipe?
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