Things to do in Veilgarden...

When your Persuasive is 1-10

As your Persuasive increases, more storylets will appear.



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The Singing Mandrake

If you want to become a sensation in Veilgarden, here's the place to start…

Tell a risqué joke

'After the opening of a popular revue, a bishop waits on one of the more vibrant actresses at the stage door. "Madam", he says…'

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (60% per point)

Tell a politically dangerous joke

'How does one distinguish a Master of the Bazaar from a barrel of sheep's urine?' Let's hope the audience here is sympathetic. You don't want another spell in New Newgate.

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (15% per point)

Chat to a Tipsy Spy

A spy? So rumour has it. If you can get her talking, you might learn something useful.
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     [Unlocked with The Airs of London (variable)]
_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (20% per point)

Mock an Insufferable Poseur

This fellow is sitting at the back of the Singing Mandrake reciting - well, technically it's poetry. Each line is worse than the last. It's a public service. Anyway, he's in your favourite chair.
     [Unlocked with The Airs of London (variable)]

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (12% per point)

Seduce a Struggling Artist (0 Actions)

Do you find him charming? Useful? Or both?
   [Unlocked with Persuasive 9]
   [Unlocked with an Admirer of Art is: —]

Seduce a Struggling Artist's Model (0 Actions)

Of the two of them, she might well be the more talented. Perhaps she enjoys playing the innocent.
   [Unlocked with Persuasive 9]
   [Unlocked with an Admirer of Art is: —]

Rewrite a collection of sea-shanties (3 Actions)

A dining-club of wealthy merchant-captains has asked you to amend work-songs to be more 'fitting'. Whether this is for morale, mercantile or aesthetic purposes, you're not clear, but they will pay. "It's very important," one says, leaning forward, "that you don't change too much. Zailors are superstitious, d'you see?" If this is successful, it'll ensure you're identified with the Bazaarine school, if you're not already.
   [Unlocked with 2 x Zee-Ztory]
   [Unlocked with 2 x Memory of Distant Shores]
   [Unlocked with Subtle 3]
   [Unlocked with Identified with a School is The Bazaarines, The Celestials, The Nocturnals or You reject all labels and associations]

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (1.2% per point)

Finish a libretto (3 Actions)

A Hot-Tempered Composer has fallen out with her librettist over the romantic-pastoral opera they were writing together. She'd like you to finish it, if you can inject the necessary note of dawn-lit longing. If this is successful, it'll ensure you're identified with the Celestial school, if you're not already.
   [Unlocked with 1 x Vision of the Surface]
   [Unlocked with 5 x Romantic Notion]
   [Unlocked with Melancholy 3]
   [Unlocked with Identified with a School is The Bazaarines, The Celestials, The Nocturnals or You reject all labels and associations]

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (1.2% per point)

Write a lewd satirical song about the Grand Hunt of the Devils (3 Actions)

This will upset Hell, high society and the Church, all at once. But you can't get the tune out of your head. If this is successful, it'll ensure you're identified with the Nocturnal school, if you're not already.
   [Unlocked with 1 x Tale of Terror!!]
   [Unlocked with 1 x A Journal of Infamy]
   [Unlocked with Daring 3]
   [Unlocked with Identified with a School is The Bazaarines, The Celestials, The Nocturnals or You reject all labels and associations]

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (1.2% per point)

Start an argument with a leading light of your favoured school

An artistic spat? What fun! If successful, this will ensure you're no longer associated with any particular creative movement.
   [Unlocked with Identified with a School is The Bazaarines, The Celestials, The Nocturnals or You reject all labels and associations]

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (1.2% per point)

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Literary Ambitions

Veilgarden is a good place to pick up writing commissions. Some you can finish off quickly: some will need time…
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Work on spec

Once you have a little confidence, you can strike out on your own: write work and sell it.
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This storylet will not cost you an action!

A quick commission: Hymns to Sobriety

A Dauntless Temperance Campaigner has dared the sinful depths of Veilgarden. She's looking for someone who can 'bang two rhymes together'.
Unlocked with The Airs of London

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge  
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[This storylet will cost you 3 actions!]

A quick commission: Ode to the Empress

A Swivel-Eyed Old Patriot is going round the Garden offering prizes for poetry celebrating the Empress. He doesn't call her the 'Traitor Empress.'
Unlocked with The Airs of London

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge  
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[This storylet will cost you 3 actions!]

Quick Commission: Poetry in the Dark

Is this a joke? But the Desperate Urchin seems quite in earnest. 'If we don't feed the fing fresh poetry, it comes for us in the night. You got to 'elp us. Please?'
Unlocked with The Airs of London

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge  
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[This storylet will cost you 3 actions!]

Invite like-minded poets down here

You're quite the poet. And although your circumstances might currently be humble, the Veilgarden set are starting to take notice. What you need are followers. An artistic movement! This will invite someone who isn't playing to join you, and start a lucrative and somewhat bohemian story if they do.
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Celebrate Fungus in Verse: Make up the details

He surely can't expect you to go out and watch the mushroom harvest in person.

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge  
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[This storylet will cost you 2 actions!]

Celebrate Fungus in Verse: Field work!

Perhaps if you take a stroll through the mushroom vaults, something will occur to you.

_ Watchful Watchful challenge  
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Be d—ned to this. I refuse to be remembered as the Bard of the Mushroom!

Tear the work to fragments and drop the fragments in the gutter. Get drunk. Forget the whole damned thing.
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Celebrate Fungus in Verse: an honest effort

Turn over four hundred stanzas of dutiful fungal enthusiasm. Please God let this be enough.

_ Inspired Inspired challenge  
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Celebrate Fungus in Verse: a satire!

You could create a cunningly disguised mushroom-based satire on the tedium of business affairs. It's an audacious strategy.

_ Inspired Inspired challenge  
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Ambition: Heart's Desire!

They say that once every nine years there's a card game where you can gamble your soul and win your heart's desire…
Unlocks: Persuasive 6

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Seduction: Artist

This chap has, they say, picked up a number of secrets from his commissions - but he won't share them with just anyone.

chap1small.png Actions for this Venture all occur in Veilgarden. They are gathered on their own page. This story is started via the Singing Mandrake encounter above.


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Seduction: Artist's Model

This young lady has, they say, picked up a number of secrets from her employer's commissions - but she won't share them with just anyone.

bohogirl1small.png Actions for this Venture all occur in Veilgarden. They are gathered on their own page. This story is started via the Singing Mandrake encounter above.

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The Honey-Dens of Veilgarden

You deserve a little treat. Life is so effortful! You've learned of a number of honey-dens in the back streets of Veilgarden, where you can lie on a quiet couch and be transported to extraordinary places. Different dreams will be available on different occasions.
   [Unlocked with Persuasive 10]

Deepen your acquaintance with Prisoner's Honey (2 Actions)

As you use honey, your Connoisseur of Neathy Delights quality will rise. This will increase your honey-tolerance, and may have other effects, good and bad.

[There are several dreams possible, all share the following three characteristics. The number is equal to your current level of Connoisseur of Neathy Delights:]

   [Unlocked with: Connoisseur of Neathy Delights 2]
   [Unlocked with: number x Drop of Prisoner's Honey]
   [Unlocked with: The Airs of London]

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (5% per point)

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (3.3% per point)

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (3% per point)

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (3% per point)

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (3% per point)

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (2.4% per point)

Supply wine in exchange for Prisoner's Honey

Before they take to their fading-couches, honey-dreamers often like a glass of something to get in the mood. You can also purchase Prisoner's Honey at Merrigans Exchange in the Bazaar.
   [Unlocked with 50 x Greyfields 1879]

_ Persuasive Persuasive challenge (3% per point)

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