Attending To The Needs Of A Singular Plant

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Levels of Attending To The Needs Of A Singular Plant

1. - Tiny Little Shoot
2. - Bold Little Vegetable
3. - Bold Little Vegetable
4. - Bold Little Vegetable
5. - Bold Little Vegetable
6. - Verdant Menace
7. - Verdant Menace
8. - Verdant Menace
9. - Verdant Menace
10. - Verdant Menace
11. - Verdant Menace
12. - Budding in the Pantry
13. - Budding in the Pantry
14. - Budding in the Pantry
15. - Budding in the Pantry
16. - Heavy with Fruit
17. - Heavy with Fruit
18. - Heavy with Fruit
19. - Heavy with Fruit

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It Begins

Where did that come from?

A determined plant has barged its way through the floor of your lodgings. It's a deep green in colour, which is unusual down here.
Unlocks: Free of Surface Ties 1

Get rid of it

Uproot the tiny green menace. You could probably sell it as a curiosity.

Reward spoiler

She's welcome to it

You make it known that you have a strange plant to sell. Shortly thereafter, a Scarf-Wrapped Horticulturist knocks on your door. She doesn't pay much, but she carries it away with a care usually reserved for newborn babies.
Gain: 50 x Rostygold

Keep it

It's an interesting little sprout. And what bother could it be?

Reward spoiler

It will make a conversation piece, at least

For the moment, your plant is content to poke out from the floorboards. A picture of verdant innocence. Will it always be so?
An occurrence! Your attending to the needs of a singular plant Quality is now 1!

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Bold Little Vegetable

Your house-plant

Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 1
You plant is developing little buds. Is it going to flower?

Get rid of it

A Scarf-wrapped Horticulturist has been hanging about making enquiries. She can have it.

Reward spoiler

Carefully does it

The Horticulturist keeps odd hours and smells a bit, but she's happy to pay you for the plant. You've not seen a velvet-padded wheelbarrow before.
Gain: 100 x Rostygold
Your attending to the needs of a singular plant Quality has gone!

Assemble an array of horticultural impedimentia

Pots, a petroleum spray-pump for frost-moths, a supply of Mr Murgatroyd's Vegetable Vivication Elixir. That sort of thing.
Unlocks: 50 x Moon-Pearl

Reward spoiler

The modern gardener

Your plant is watered, sprayed, vivified. An atttempt at potting it fails - the roots run deep below your lodgings. How big is this wonder of nature?
Lose: 50 x Moon-Pearl
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase

Talk to your plant

What does one talk to plants about? The lack of weather? The issues of the day? The bat forecast?
(A matter of luck: the odds are against you here.)

Reward spoiler

A sympathetic ear

You speak to your plant at some length. It seems to be listening. Absorbing. You feel better for the experience.
An occurrence! Your attending to the needs of a singular plant Quality is now 2
Nightmares decrease

Failure spoiler

Very little going on

You talk to your plant at some length. If it could regard you, it would do so with an air of shrubby insouciance.

No Rewards.

Your green companion

Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 1
Your plant is a little larger, and now its stalk bears a few tiny thorns. What to do?

Get rid of it

A Scarf-wrapped Horticulturist has been hanging about making enquiries. She can have it.

Reward spoiler

Carefully does it

The Horticulturist keeps odd hours and smells a bit, but she's happy to pay you for the plant. You've not seen a velvet-padded wheelbarrow before.
Gain: 100 x Rostygold
Your attending to the needs of a singular plant Quality has gone!

Ask a local expert

There's a fellow at the nearby fungus-allotments who seems to know a lot about plants. Perhaps he can tell you something about your little friend.
Unlocks: 50 x Jade Fragment

Reward spoiler

In a cart?

You contribute a handful of jade to the chap's new shed roof fund. He comes over for tea and consultation.

'Well, isn't that a thing? It's not a fungus, that's for certain. Don't rightly know what it's called, but I've heard there was one growing in a place in Spite. Got awful big, but it kept the rats down. Someone in a mask dug the bugger up and carried it off in a cart.'
Lose: 50 x Jade Fragment
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase

Sing to your plant

Indisputable authorities recommend song for the growth of plants.
(A matter of luck: the odds are against you here.)

Reward spoiler

It worked!

It's growing! Is it growing? It's hard to be sure. Did it just undulate? How marvellous!
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase

Failure spoiler

Very little going on

You talk to your plant at some length. If it could regard you, it would do so with an air of shrubby insouciance.
Scandal increase

The Noted Orchid-Grower consults

Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 1
A Noted Orchid-grower has taken an interest in your plant.

Let her have a look.

She might know something interesting.
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

Reward spoiler

Candles?

'It's not a surface plant. It's probably from the Elder Country somewhere. They like candles, I think. Fascinating little thing, isn't it? I wonder how far the roots go…'
You were fortunate!
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase

Faliure spoiler

Are you sure?

'Oh, this is plainly a Hell-fern. You should feed it fresh bat blood and the occasional soul. Only use brass implements, and never water it…'
You were unlucky. Better luck next time…
attending to the needs of a singular plant decrease OR attending to the needs of a singular plant does not decrease because it's less than 3

An auspicious day for gardening

You suspect she knows a substantial amount about your little friend.

Requires 4 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.

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Verdant Menace

Your green lodger

Your plant is growing merrily. The superterranean portion is unnervingly person-sized.
Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 6

Set some candles around the plant

Although the plant plainly doesn't need sunlight, lighting its room might encourage growth.
Unlocks: 200 x Foxfire Candle Stub

Reward spoiler

Losing your parlour

You arrange the candles around its room. When did your parlour become the plant's room? Never mind. Your plant turns its leaves towards the candles. It seems to like them. That's good, isn't it? Surely nothing distressing can come of all this?
Lose: 200 x Foxfire Candle Stub
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase (1 change point)

Get rid of the plant

That Scarf-wrapped Horticulturist is still about the place like a cold. She'll pay to take it off your hands.
(Dangerous challenge)

Reward spoiler (unknown)

Investigate your plant

Poke about the roots and so forth. Perhaps you can learn something.
(Watchful challenge)

Reward spoiler

A light in the depths

There's something down there… something glowing. You grab the coal-tongs and poke about. Beetles! Glowing beetles are nesting in the roots of your plant. Well, that'll save on the candle bill.
Watchful increase
Gain: 10 x Phosphorescent Scarab

Rare reward

What's this?

What on earth is one of these doing down there?
You now have 1 x London Street Sign
Watchful increase

Your sprouting companion

Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 6
How does your plant maintain that vibrant green without sunlight? And when did it get taller than you?

Dinner time

Has it really come to this? Feeding your plant furry fertiliser? The sacrifices we make to horticulture.
Unlocks: 200 Rat on a String

Reward spoiler

Eating alone

You strew the little bodies around your plant's roots. Nothing happens. Perhaps vegetation prefer to eat alone? You close the parlour door and allow your green companion its privacy. The next day, the rats are gone. Not even a bone left. My, those leaves are looking shiny.
Lose: 200 x Rat on a String
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase (1 change point)

Get rid of the plant

That Scarf-wrapped Horticulturist is still about the place like a cold. She'll pay to take it off your hands.
(Dangerous challenge)

Reward spoiler (unknown)

Probably not poisonous

Your plant is secreting a sticky yellow sap. Is that a present? Would it be foolhardy to consume such a substance?
(A matter of luck: the odds are against you here.)

Reward spoiler

Where did you go?

You imbibe the viscous juice. It's rather fruity. Is that a hint of pineapple? No, it's your mind being consumed by the endless depths of the earth.

Blinding light. A thousand years under the glow in the sky that isn't the sun. Men thundering past on horseback. A choir reaching to heaven. A jungle full of cats and spiders. A tunnelling, under the earth, under the zee. You wake some time later, missing your clothes and curled up in the coal bunker.
attending to the needs of a singular plant decrease (2 points)
Gain: 2 x Appalling Secret
Gain: 1 x Memory of Light

Failure spoiler

Will you ever learn?

You imbibe the viscous juice. It's rather fruity. Is that a hint of pineapple? No, it's your mind being consumed by the endless depths of the earth.

You wake some time later, missing your clothes and curled up in the coal bunker. You don't feel well at all.
Wounds increase
attending to the needs of a Singular Plant decrease

Your green project

Lashing fronds, a thick musk and thorns as long as your thumb. Your plant is developing nicely.
Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 6

Invite some friends over to marvel at your plant

Who could fail to be entertained by such an energetic green menace?
(Persuasive challenge, straightforward < 88)

Reward spoiler

A most singular organism

What on earth is it? Where did you get it? Could I impose on you for a cutting? Your plant is quite the thing among your social circle. Their interest won't last out the week, but you should make gains upon it while it does.
Persuasive increase
Admired increase
Gain: 1 x Confident Smile

Get rid of the plant

That Scarf-wrapped Horticulturist is still about the place like a cold. She'll pay to take it off your hands.
(Dangerous challenge, straightforward < 83

Reward spoiler

Before the candles gutter

The Scarf-Wrapped Horticulturist lights a few herb-scented candles before she goes for the shovel. 'Just to be sure, you understand.' You don't, really, but you play along. She digs up the plant carefully, almost reverentially, and has it on her cart before the candles burn low.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 200 x Jade Fragment
Your attending to the needs of a singular plant quality is gone!

Tell your plant secrets

Does your plant like to hear terrible secrets?
Unlocks: 100 x Cryptic Clue

Reward spoiler

A catlike taste for secrets

Can a plant strain to listen? Yours is quivering with anticipation for the next morsel of forbidden knowledge. A bud pops open into a delicate white flower. Was that really necessary?
Lose: 100 x Cryptic Clue
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase (1 change point)

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Budding in the Pantry

Is it fruiting?

Your green friend is producing something fruity. It trembles with the effort.
Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 12

Get rid of it

A squad of gardeners from the Shuttered Palace will take it off your hands. They're willing to swap a crate of good wine.

Reward spoiler (unknown)

Examine the tiny fruits

Just what is the plant up to?

Reward spoiler

Tiny little heads

At a distance, the fruits look like slightly deformed strawberries. Up close, though, they resemble human heads. That one has a pretty snub nose. This one has little hairs that could be mutton chops. Tonight you will dream of a score of voices, whispering from the parlour.
Gain 50 x Whispered Secret
Nightmares increase…

Feed your plant a goldfish

Surely not Mr Bubbles? Does your plant even like seafood?
Unlocks: 1 x Cheerful Goldfish

Reward spoiler

Goodbye Mr Bubbles

You fling the ill-fated goldfish to its doom among the roots. They twist and shudder, snaking round the struggling creature. For a moment, your plant smells like the muck at the bottom of a long-stagnant pond.
Lose: 1 x Cheery Goldfish
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase (1 point)

Taking care of your green friend

The effort of producing tiny fruit has taken its toll. The leaves sag and the roots droop. Something must be done!
Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 12

Get rid of it

A squad of gardeners from the Shuttered Palace will take it off your hands. They're willing to swap a crate of good wine.

Reward spoiler (unknown)

Tell your plant your most terrible secrets

The green creature likes little secrets. Let's see what it makes of some big ones.
Unlocks: 2 x Appalling Secret

Rewards spoiler

Drinking up secrets

The plant quivers with anticipation. The little red fruit-buds turn towards you. Do some of them have ears? You speak, and your plant… well, if it wasn't a vegetable, you'd say it was standing to attention. Not a droop in sight.
Lose: 2 x Appalling Secret
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase (1 point)

Feed a few bats to your plant

You want crickets? I'll show you where the crickets are…
Unlocks: 10 x Sulky Bat

Reward spoiler

Squeak!

You release a cage full of bats into the parlour. Thorny fronds lash out and pluck them from the air one by one. The plant stuffs them into its… well, you thought that was a flower. The word that comes to mind now is 'maw'. When the squeaking stops, your plant looks a picture of vegetable health.
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase
10 x Sulky Bat lost

Is it thirsty?

Your plant is fruiting, so it will need water, won't it? Or perhaps wine?
Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 12 this card continues to appear even when **Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant is above 16

Apply a bottle of FF Gebrandt's Verdant Stimulator

Rare, immensely expensive and technically illegal, this stuff would make a boulder bloom. [This will substantially increase your Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality.]

Requires 4 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.

A little wine and water

Perhaps your plant would like a little libation. [A matter of luck; it could go either way]
Unlocks: 50 x Greyfields 1879

Fortunate spoiler

Glug glug glug

The wine and water mix soaks into the roots. Within moments your plant has perked up. A tiny white flower near its base darkens to scarlet. Delightful.
Lose: 50 x Greyfields 1879
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase (3 points)

Unfortunate spoiler

Too early in the day?

The plant doesn't enjoy the 'watering'at all. Its fronds sag and lose a little of their sheen. Perhaps it objected to the vintage, or the time of day. Fussy thing.
Lose: 50 x Greyfields 1879
attending to the needs of a singular plant decrease (2 points)

A well-rooted plant

Your plant's roots have pushed up the floorboards in your parlour. They're thicker than your arm now.
Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 12

Get rid of it

A squad of gardeners from the Shuttered Palace will take it off your hands. They're willing to swap a crate of good wine.

Reward spoiler (unknown)

Poke about in your plant's extremities

There might be something good down there.

Rewards spoiler

Well, look at that!

Is there something shining down in the roots? You set forth with pickaxe and shovel. Your plant doesn't like you rearranging its nethers, and puts up spirited resistance with a thorny frond. Ten minutes later you're bleeding and your plant is furious, but you do have something gleaming for your troubles.
attending to the needs of a singular plant decrease
Sapphire x 1 gained
Wounds increase

Feed a box of weasels to the plant

Off you go, little weasels. Go and play in the fronds and the roots. Nothing bad will happen. (A matter of luck; it could go either way.)
Unlocks: 10 x Lucky Weasel

Fortunate spoiler

A reversal of fortune

The weasels scamper about happily, chasing each other around the roots and thorn-tendrils. One by one they disappear from sight. The lone remaining weasel cocks his head, perhaps wondering what to make of those peculiar crunching noises, or what became of his friends. Your plant stretches its tendrils languorously, like a diner after an excellent meal.
Lose: 9 x Lucky Weasel
attending to the needs of a singular plant increase (1 point)

Unfortunate spoiler

Lucky little rascals

The weasels scamper about happily, chasing each other around the roots and thorn-tendrils. Your plant remains quiescent. Do vegetables sleep? You ponder this mystery as you try to herd the weasels back into their box. You seem to have retrieved most of them.
You've lost 1 x Lucky Weasel

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Heavy with Fruit

Your plant is singing

The plant's fruit now resemble bearded, full-sized human heads. One of them is singing, badly. Something by Verdi.

Get rid of it

The squad of Palace gardeners has become a platoon. They're hungry for your plant.

Reward spoiler

Feed a vicar to your plant

He's around here at all hours, collecting for this and denouncing that. He won't be missed.
Unlocked with Connected: The Church 5

Reward spoiler

'You look hungry, vicar…'

'Don't mind if I do. God bless you.' The vicar heads to your pantry to help himself to a fictional pot of tea and an imaginary cake. You block your ears to the high-pitched screams and crunching.

That night, the head-fruits whisper the confidences and secrets of the devoured vicar. Little visits to certain carnival tents. A comprehensive loss of faith. And what he really did with all that collection money.

Now, this is just fascinating. Who should you feed to the plant next?

Gain: 1 x Appalling Secret
Gain: 10 x Whispered Secret
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant increase
] Investigating… increase (if you have this quality) (5 change points)
Connected: The Church hasn't changed, because it's higher than 10 OR Connected: The Church increase. This is probably a typo, other players have reported this as a decrease, occurring when Connected:Church is between 5 and 10.

Have another poke around the roots

A plant like this must rake up all sorts of things from the depths.

Reward spoiler

A measured approach

You decide to tread gently, and leave the pickaxe outside the parlour. The plant seems to appreciate this. It does no more than lash its fronds like a dozen cat's tails as you dig down. What's this? A little scrap of parchment. Who writes on parchment any more? The ink is fresh, though.

Gain: 3 x Intriguing Gossip
Gain: 3 x Secluded Address
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant Decrease

As big as your head

Your plant's fruits now resemble full-sized human heads. Occasionally they shout, scream, or sing. One manages a creditable contralto rendition of Skadi's aria from 'Odin's Horse'.

Get rid of it

The squad of Palace gardeners has become a platoon. They're hungry for your plant.

Reward spoiler

Feed your plant a sorrow-spider

The fruits have been eyeing your sorrow-spider. One of them smacks its lips whenever the spider scuttles past.
Unlock: 1 x Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider

Reward spoiler

Give and take

Your spider has long been wary of the plant but, now that the fruits have discernible eyes, it can't resist. The spider climbs on to the lowest bud and bears its fangs. There is a lashing of green tendril, and the spider is gone. Are those fruity heads smirking?

Lose: 1 x Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant increase (2 change points)

Get a good look at the fruit

Let's hope they don't bite.
Unlocked with 1 x Patent Scrutinizer

Reward spoiler

A head start

The heads all look alike. Male, and handsome in a gaunt sort of way. Hang on a moment. These are… yes! These fruit look just like those counterfeit heads of John the Baptist that are knocking around London. As you watch, one of them falls to the floorboards with a meaty thump. Good God.
Gain: 2 x Appalling Secret
Nightmares increase
Gain: 1 x Counterfeit Head of John the Baptist

Get a very good look at the fruit

Are those teeth wood? Bone? Flower-petals?This choice is locked for now.
Unlocked with 1 x Patent Scrutinizer Deluxe!

Reward spoiler

A heady sight

The heads all look alike. Male, and handsome in a gaunt sort of way. Hang on a moment. These are… yes! These fruit look just like those counterfeit heads of John the Baptist that are knocking around London. As you watch, one of them falls to the floorboards with a meaty thump. Good God.
Gain: 2 x Appalling Secret
Nightmares increase (2 change points)
Gain: 1 x Counterfeit Head of John the Baptist
You now have 1 x Mystery of the Elder Continent OR Mystery of the Elder Country hasn't changed, because it's higher than 5

Sleep is becoming a problem

The plant's fruit are now full-sized human heads. They whisper, moan and weep. Their tears dapple its leaves.

Get rid of it

The squad of Palace gardeners has become a platoon. They're hungry for your plant.

Reward spoiler

Listen to the fruit

Is your plant trying to communicate? Can you get any sense out of it?

Reward spoiler

A growing hunger

The heads moan and cackle and weep. One is counting backwards in French. Another seems to be choking. The leaves tremble miserably. Left to its own devices, your plant won't say anything of use.
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant decrease

Feed a coalman to your plant

Have you taken leave of your senses? Are you a monster? Or did the coalman leave one too many smudges on your wallpaper?
(Dangerous challenge)

Reward spoiler

'The bunker's full. Put that sack in the pantry'

The coalman struggles towards the pantry with his burden. You open the door for him, give him a shove, and slam the door shut. You hear something that sounds like a bullwhip cutting the air, and a hoarse scream. Fingernails scrabble against the door. You hold on tightly to the handle, and wait.

Later that night, the head-fruits begin their whispering. They tell the tiny secrets of the coalman. Short-weighting the irascible widow down the street. Trips to a honey den. Desires his wife wouldn't approve of.

Now, this is just fascinating. Who should you feed to the plant next?
Dangerous increase
Gain: 1 x Appalling Secret
Gain 20 x Whispered Secret
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant increase (1 change point)

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All above cards disappear at Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 19

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Should you find yourself in A small, velvet lined box Audrey Junior can come to your aid:

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A Stray Tendril

Unlocks: Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 10
There's something poking at your shoulder. It feels like a root.

Tug the root

Can you reach it?

Rewards spoiler

A friend indeed

The root reacts to your touch, wrapping itself firmly around your arm. The coffin begins to shake and split. More roots burst through and grab your limbs. You are being dragged through the earth! You swallow huge mouthfuls of dirt and pebbles.
You've moved to a new area: your Lodgings
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant decrease (a whopping 5 change points…but better than dying or going insane)

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If one has Attending to the needs of a singular plant 10, one may visit the Noted Orchid-Grower through an opportunity card and begin a new storyline relating to the singular plant.

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The Noted Orchid-Grower has a Secret

Something interesting lurks behind those green eyes.
Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 10

Pay her a visit, and take a bottle

The lady can be indiscreet after a libation.
(unlocked with Morelways 1872 x 1)

Reward spoiler

The tournament of lilies

ou sit with the Orchid-Grower in her hothouse. Sweat trickles down the back of your neck. She sips from a glass of chilled wine but doesn't offer you any.

'Well, you didn't hear this from me, but you're not the only one in London with a St. John's lily,' she says. 'They've been growing in cellars and parlours since the Fall. And you know how competitive gardeners are.'

'If you've the green fingers and the spirit, there's a contest. A knock-out tournament with some startling prizes. Held in darkened greenhouses in the dead of night, they say. I know where the next one is, if you fancy your chances. Take a cutting and your stake…'

[Go to your lodgings to enter the Tournament of Lilies. You will need challenge rivals who own a suitable plant and are at the same point in the tournament as you. You risk a stake each time you challenge or are challenged. All challenges are decided on the Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality.]
An occurrence! Your 'Competing in a Tournament of Lilies' Quality is now 1 - Seeking a Contest of Strength!
You've lost 1 x Morelways 1872

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