Connection Dependent Cards

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Connection dependent cards give you some reward or event in exchange for or because of your level in the Connected score that you have with some group. There are several kinds of connection dependent cards.

• Training Cards These cards offer you an increase in a major Quality in exchange for lowering the value of your Connected score. (And sometimes a little something extra.)
• Conflict Cards These cards offer you a choice between two opposed factions that you are connected to. Selecting one side or the other results in a major drop in your Connected with the betrayed faction, and a slight rise with the other.
• Event Cards These cards not only provide a benefit to a major Quality but also some other rewards. (In other words, these allow you to cash in on your connection.)
• Story Cards When your Connected score with a given group rises to a high enough level, stories will open up for you. (Further cards and events within a story are given on different pages in this wiki.)

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Training Cards

These cards offer you an increase in a major Quality in exchange for lowering the value of your Connected score. A higher Connected score is needed when your Quality is higher, and you receive a greater benefit. All of these cards will decrease the required Connected value in exchange for an increase in the given quality. (The value of the exchange is arguable but it is one way to use a good connection that may not be as important at any given point.)

Training Cards (Series 1) [older cards]

Training Cards (Series 1)

This table is a summary of the training cards available when your Qualities are relatively low. These only require you to use some of your Connected score to get the training benefit. There is no minimum value for any Quality.

All of these cards may now be replaced by the cards in the next series.

	Title	Connected required	Provides training in
	Learn some street-fighter's tricks	The Docks 2	Dangerous
	Learn anarchists' techniques	Revolutionaries 2	Dangerous
	Arrange a fencing lesson	Tomb-Colonies 2	Dangerous
	Learn some actorly tricks	Bohemian 2	Persuasive
	Learn some rhetorical tricks from a clergyman	Church 2	Persuasive
	Learn the pickpocket's arts	Urchins 2	Shadowy
	Learn the arts of thievery	Criminals 2	Shadowy
	Learn the secret arts of stealth	The Orient 2	Shadowy
	Learn the spy's arts	The Great Game 2	Watchful
	Learn cutting-edge investigative techniques	The Constables 2	Watchful
	Learn another letter in the alphabet of Hell	Hell 2	Watchful

Training Cards (Series 2)

This table is a summary of the training cards available at varying levels of your main Qualities These only require you to use some of your earned favors with a certain group (your Connected score) to get an increase in one of the major Qualities (Dangerous, Persuasive, Shadowy or Watchful).

The range for a given Quality is shown in the table. Different options will be unlock, or disappear, depending on what your Quality is at the time you draw the card.

	Card Title - Option Titles	Connected required	Quality required
Dangerous
	Learn some violent lessons at the docks - Brawl with street fighters - Knives forty feet above deck - Fencing lessons with a Dashing Captain	The Docks 3 The Docks 5 The Docks 10	Dangerous 0-30 Dangerous 31-70 Dangerous 71
	Learn about the coming revolution - Learn the knife, the club, the brick - There are old revolutionaries and bold revolutionaries - And now…bombs!	Revolutionaries 4 Revolutionaries 10 Revolutionaries 20	Dangerous 0-30 Dangerous 31-70 Dangerous 71
	Learn from the bandaged men and women - Go shooting with a Sharp-eyed Gamekeeper - Fence with a Veteran Sergeant of Hussars - Spar with a Black Ribbon Duellist	The Tomb-Colonies 3 The Tomb-Colonies 5 The Tomb-Colonies 10	Dangerous 0-30 Dangerous 31-70 Dangerous 71
Persuasive
	Learn from churchmen - Take dinner with a Cheerful Curate - Take lessons at the Curates' College - Attend a private lecture given by the Bishop of Southwark	The Church 4 The Church 10 The Church 20	Persuasive 0-30 Persuasive 31-70 Persuasive 71
	Learn about the performing arts - Learn a few tricks from a Gallows Poet - An evening with a respected actress - Take tea with a reclusive novelist	Bohemian 4 Bohemian 25 Bohemian 40	Persuasive 0-30 Persuasive 31-70 Persuasive 71
	Learn how to operate in polite society - Attend a lively salon - Receive lessons in etiquette from a retired valet - Take port with the Veteran Privy Counsellor	Society 4 Society 25 Society 40	Persuasive 0-30 Persuasive 31-70 Persuasive 71
Shadowy
	Learn the criminal arts - Swap gossip with cat burglars - Share a few drinks with a recently escaped recidivist - Consult the a master theif	Criminals 4 Criminals 10 Criminals 20	Shadowy 0-30 Shadowy 31-70 Shadowy 71
	Learn urchins' tricks - Pick pockets with the urchins - Run the rooftops with the urchins - Out you go, longshanks See below	Urchins 3 Urchins 5 Urchins 10	Shadowy 0-30 Shadowy 31-70 Shadowy 71
	Learn from your Oriental acquaintances - Learn the Indian arts of position and breathing - Learn some smuggler's tricks from the Gracious Widow's gang - Consult the Persian	The Orient 4 The Orient 25 The Orient 40	Shadowy 0-30 Shadowy 31-70 Shadowy 71
Watchful
	Learn new tricks from the constables - Take tea at the station - Learn cutting-edge scientific techniques - Attend a class given by the Implacable Detective	The Constables 4 The Constables 25 The Constables 40	Watchful 0-30 Watchful 31-70 Watchful 71
	Learn the spy's arts - Take a stroll around Tyrant's Gardens - Get some work done at Clathermont's tattoo parlour - Learn more at the carnival	The Great Game 4 The Great Game 10 The Great Game 20	Watchful 0-30 Watchful 31-70 Watchful 71
	Learn some infernal tricks - Take lunch at Dante's Grill - Learn a letter in one of Hell's alphabets - Speak with a senior deviless	Hell 4 Hell 10 Hell 20	Watchful 0-30 Watchful 31-70 Watchful 71

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Training Cards (Series 2) Details

Some of the training cards in the table will require or reward more than just a Connected score or an increase to a major Quality. Those cards (and their specific options) are listed here.

Learn urchins' tricks

If you have the connections (needs Connected: Urchins). You'll be trading in some of your earned favours, so Connected: Urchins will drop.

Out you go, longshanks

Occasionally, an urchin survives long enough to be too old for the gangs. Perhaps you can buy their secrets before they graduate to the enterprises of adult criminals.
Unlocked with Connected: Urchins 10, Shadowy 71, Rostygold 200

Reward spoiler

Pleasing knowledge, fairly bought

Your contact is no longer bound by the terrible urchin oaths of secrecy. He spills his guts. How the gangs move. Their struggles with each other in the alleys. Where they stashed that jewel.
Shadowy increase
Connected: Urchins decrease
Lose: 200 x Rostygold
Gain: 1 x Sapphire

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Conflict Cards

These cards show up when you have Connected 10 each in two opposed factions. Selecting one side or the other results in a major drop with the betrayed faction, and a slight rise with the other.

A contact in the Great Game has a tale for you

A spy was ordered to join the church. He studied at Summerset College, was ordained, and eventually made rector of a noteworthy parish. But just as he was placed to report on the Church's secrets, he began to believe. Now he won't talk.
Unlocked with 10 each in Connected: The Great Game and Connected: The Church

Everyone deserves a second chance

Burn his dossier and pull some strings to buy his exemption from the Great Game. [Major loss of Connected: The Great Game, some gain of Connected: The Church]

Reward spoiler

There are higher causes than the national interest…

You engage in a brisk trade of favours. The rector's name is scratched from certain lists. It is forgotten by the right people. Finally, the two of you burn his dossier. As the smoke rises he weeps at his deliverance, blessing you in the name of St. Joshua who watches over intriguers and secret-bearers.
Connected: The Church increase (1-16 change points)
Connected: The Great Game decrease (was 55 change points, now less than 20)
Gain: 1 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
Gain: 1 x Sudden Insight
Gain: 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson
Gain: 1 x Confident Smile
Austere increase (1 change point) OR Austere hasn't changed, because it's higher than 5

Make clear that no-one leaves the Game

It doesn't work like that. Your crimes aren’t forgotten because you put on a cassock, and nor are your debts. [Major loss of Connected: The Church, some gain of Connected: The Great Game]

Reward spoiler

You wait for him in the confessional

He enters, settles, asks you to begin. You open his dossier and begin to confess all his old sins back at him. He breaks before you're halfway through, begging you to stop, and the secrets come spilling out of him. The next time his masters contact him, they'll find him more responsive.

Connected: The Great Game increase (a few substats?)
Connected: The Church decrease (very roughly, say, 50 substats)
Gain: 15 x Cryptic Clue

 

Of course, he needn't get his own hands dirty…

Convince him to host a quiet service for St Joshua, patron saint of intriguers, where spies can pray, confess, do a little business… [This will use 5 actions but earn you Maniac's Prayers and Incendiary Gossip even if you fail]
Shadowy challenge.

Reward spoiler

A secret service

London's spies are grateful for a chance to confess. Religion isn't a liberty they are allowed in their day job, but St Joshua's services are always held at night. There is a gentle susurrus from the congregation as they make their offerings of secrets. You listen carefully.
Afterwards, the rector approaches you, hands clasped. 'That's the last favour you'll need from me, isn't it? I'm done now, aren't I?' Of course, you assure him. Of course.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 10 x Maniac's Prayer
Gain: 6 x Incendiary Gossip

Crime or Punishment?

Thus far you've managed to stay friendly with those on both sides of the law. But now you've had a visit from the Special Constables. Give evidence against a Smuggler of Dangerous Texts, they say, and they'll overlook your past offences…
Unlocked with 10 Connected each with Criminals and Constables

Give evidence

Secrets can be more dangerous than knives or bullets. You should be responsible. [Major loss of favour with Criminals, small gain of favour with Constables. Warning: at higher levels of Connected, this may be less optional!]

Reward spoiler

Justice is done

The villain is duly delivered to New Newgate. His villainous books, with their…diagrams, and…words…, are consigned to the flames. Excellent work!

Austere increase
Connected: The Constables increase
Connected: Criminals decrease
Suspicion decrease (5 change points)

Get word to the Smuggler

The Special Constables are the strong arm of the Ministry of Public Decency. Who are, let's be frank, appalling killjoys. [Major loss of favour with the Constables, small gain of favour with Criminals. Warning: at higher levels of Connected, this may be less optional!]

Reward spoiler

Justice is confounded!

Are you irresponsible? Greedy? Or devoted to freedom of expression? Whatever your motives, you ensure the Smuggler of Dangerous Texts gets word in time to slip out of London. He leaves a substantial portion of his stock behind. Excellent: bedtime reading!

Hedonist increase
Connected: Criminals increase
Connect: The Constables decrease
Suspicion increase
Gain: 30 x Proscribed Material

 

Brimstone or Frankincense?

You have friends at the Brass Embassy, and friends among the Church hierarchy. How exotic! And how useful to a devil who'd like your assistance with a 'harmless practical joke'.
Unlocked with Connected 5 both Hell and the Church was 10

Firecrackers in the thurible!

Conceal tiny fireworks in the incense-burner, at the behest of your infernal masters. It'll make the next service rather more entertaining.
[Major loss of Connected: Church, some increase in Connected: Hell.]
Shadowy challenge, Straightforward < 35

Reward spoiler

The plan works perfectly

A sound of thunder! The thurifer runs squeaking up and down the nave while the thurible lies spitting sparks. There is consternation! An elderly precentor keels over, clutching his chest. A mean-spirited joke, perhaps. But you have, after all, been paid.

Gain: 100 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Connected: Hell increase ( was small) now: (30 change points)
Connected: The Church decrease (major) now: (about 15 change points)
Scandal increase (1-2 change points)
Heartless increase OR Heartless hasn't changed, because it's higher than 5
Hedonist increase OR Hedonist hasn't changed, because it's higher than 5

Alert the vicar

You won't be party to infernal conspiracies against the Church. Perhaps you're pious; perhaps you simply don't trust the Brass Embassy's motives.
[Major loss of Connected: Hell, some increase in Connected: Church.]

Reward spoiler

You convey your warning

Firecrackers in the thuribles? The devils! Well, literally the devils, of course. The vicar arranges for a thurible sentinel rota and assures you the Bishop will hear of this. Which is nice.

Connected: Hell decrease (approx 50 points)
Connected: The Church increase (small)
Scandal decrease
Austere increase

No time for pranks! This is a chance to settle the matter of St Meliflua's Thurible

Saint Meliflua is patron saint of anarchists and devils, and both Church and Hell lay claim to her relics.
[This takes 5 actions but will earn you Maniac's Prayers and Tales of Terror, even on a failure]
Watchful challenge, Chancy at 80

Reward spoiler

A delicate negotiation

A smooth tongue is no use, here - this requires cold, hard theology. You convince both parties to agree to shared ownership. The Church will keep the thurible for the first half of the year, the Brass Embassy for the other.
You make the first exchange personally, which gives you plenty of time to study the apocrypha inscribed in its clouded brass. St Meliflua, it transpires, had a gift for vivid description and a mind cracked in two.

Watchful increase
Gain: 30 x Maniac's Prayer
Gain: 2 x Tale of Terror!!

The kaleidoscopic church

Unlocked with 10 Connected each with Church and Bohemian

Secure the artists’ work

Damn the Church's offer. Art is art. [Major loss of Connected: the Church, some increase in Connected: Bohemian.]

Reward spoiler

You pull some strings and get a respected art critic to visit the church

He is smitten. Declaring it a work of genius, he writes a glowing piece in the Magazine Formerly Known as the London Magazine, applauding the bishop for supporting a renaissance in sacred art. That rather scuppers any plans the Church had to - for example - have the Bohemians soundly beaten and thrown out into the street. Instead, they are made artists in residence. The little church on the square continues to be a splash of colour on the city's Sundays.
Connected: Bohemian increase
Connected: The Church decrease
Hedonist increase

Make clear the Bohemians aren’t welcome anymore

A couple of bruises and some meaningful looming ought to do it. [Major loss of Connected: Bohemian, some increase in Connected: the Church.]

Reward spoiler

A simple solution to a simple problem

There. A few visits is all it takes for the Bohemians to decide that somewhere else would be more suited to the artistic temperament. In their absence, life at the little church returns to old, familiar patterns.
Dangerous increase
Connected: Church increase
Connected: Bohemian decrease (went from 11 to 5)
Austere increase (1 change point)
Gain: 45 x Glim

Seduce the group’s leader and convince them to leave

Of course they insist they have no leader, but one has that fascinating flame of destructive genius that draws others like moths. [Major loss of Connected: Bohemian, some increase in Connected: the Church.]

Reward spoiler

An attitude of detachment, a quick sonnet, and an appeal to the artistic temperament ought to do it…

Your reputation among the unorthodox buys you an introduction. You wage a swift, effective campaign of seduction. In the warm afterwards you praise your companion's dedication in bringing art to the masses. You marvel at your companion's gifts. You hint that if you had half that talent, you'd be using it to pursue fame and fortune.

The next morning, the artists have moved on. Funny, that.
Persuasive increase
Connected: Church increase
Connected: Bohemian decrease
Gain: 60 x Firefox Candle Stub

Convince both parties that they are spiritual allies

It will take time. And committees. Lots of committees. [This will take 5 actions but will reward you with Romantic Notions and Incendiary Gossip even on a failure]
A Persuasive challenge

Reward spoiler

The marriage of Art and Faith

The application of absinthe greased the wheels of the committee process no end. It is decided that the synthesis of art and faith opens up a bold new missionary frontier.
They celebrate with a vigorously indiscreet game of one-upmanship - Bohemian gossip from one side and confessional tell-alls from the other. Some of the Bishop's stories make the most sordid honey-sippers blush.
Persuasive increase
You now have 20 x Romantic Notion
You now have 4 x Incendiary Gossip

The Acacia and the Butterfly

A midnight war is raging between the Gracious Widow's smugglers and the city’s dock-gangs. The smugglers want to move their contraband; the gangs want their cut.
Unlocked with 10 Connected each with Orient and The Docks

Settle in the Orient’s favour

The smugglers' wares are delightful, and must not be discouraged. [Major loss of Connected: The Docks, some increase in Connected: The Orient.]

Reward spoiler

The smugglers are pleased

The talks are held on the Butterfly, a junk permitted to anchor at the Acacia dock for the duration of the talks. Your settlement ensures the easy passage of illicit imports and keeps the dock-gangs' sticky fingers out of it. A few days later, the Widow expresses her gratitude in the form of several exquisite jade artefacts (sic).

Connected: The Orient increase
Connected: The Docks significant decrease (from 10 to 3)
Gain: 40 x Jade Fragment

Make an agreement favouring the dock-gangs

The Widow's people should pay the same dues as everyone else. That's just the way it works. [Major loss of Connected: The Orient, some increase in Connected: The Docks.]

Reward spoiler

The dockers are pleased

The talks are held on the Butterfly, a junk permitted to anchor at the Acacia dock for the duration of the talks. Your settlement requires that the smugglers hand over a portion of their contraband. They leave disgruntled. The dockers are ecstatic, and reward you with booty skimmed from the latest cargo.

Connected: The Docks increase
Connected: The Orient decrease
random reward (//eg 11 x Surface Currency, or 39 x Ragged Clothing)

Work long into the night forging a compromise solution

Both sides will consider a compromise a failure, but there’s more room for the person in the middle to profit… [Some loss of both Connected: Orient and Connected: the Docks] Persuasive challenge.

Reward spoiler

An end to hostilities

The talks are held on the Butterfly, a junk permitted to anchor at the Acacia dock for the duration of the talks. Negotiations are tense. When things get excitable all that prevents bloodshed is you interposing yourself between the two sides. The incident is the turning point. Seeing the only alternative to be more unprofitable war, both sides agree to a deal neither is pleased with. The contraband will flow, the dockers will get a cut. You manage to pocket hefty bribes from both sides.

Decrease of Connected: The Docks
Decrease of Connected: The Orient
Increase in Subtle
30 x Jade Fragment
5 Relic of the Fourth City // I got 28 x Rat on a String //

 

The Devil and the Child

Taking a shortcut through the alleys, you have blundered into the most private of exchanges: the trade of a soul. An elegant deviless leans against a lamp-post: an urchin perches at the top. The trade is almost concluded, but the urchin hesitates.
Unlocked with 10 Connected each with Hell and Urchins

Take the Devil's side

A soul is a heavy weight to carry. [Major loss of Connected: Urchins, some gain in Connected: Hell]

Reward spoiler

The orphan-gangs value freedom above all else

You speak of the soul's burden, its limitations, its traps, describing them with such feeling that the devil can only nod in solemn agreement. 'Unburden yourself of this soul,' she whispers to the child, 'and you will fly like a bird!'

Convinced, the urchin climbs down from the lamp post. The exchange is the work of a moment. Afterwards the orphan races off into the alleys, his pockets a-jangle with the price he was paid. Whether his step is lighter than before, you cannot say.

The pretty devil measures a precise amount of Hell-brass into your hand. She thanks you for your insight, smiles at you, and departs.

Connected: Hell increase
Connected: Urchins major decrease (approx 50 change points)
Melancholy increase
30 x Nevercold Brass Sliver

Convince the urchin to keep his soul

Even if it means the disfavour of Hell. [Major loss of Connected: Hell, some gain in Connected: Urchins]

Reward spoiler

How to prove the worth of a soul?

The purpose of a soul is debated endlessly by the great colleges, who invoke theology, philosophy, chemistry, surgery, literature, and a dozen other sciences and speculations. But a child of London's streets needs a more practical argument.

You pose the boy a question. If the soul is a burden, if it has no use, if it is a trifle or a curse or a curiosity, then why do the devils want it?

The orphan's eyes widen. He leaps from the gas lamp to a gutter, scrambles onto the roof, and races away. The pretty devil turns to you, smiling. 'Thank you,' she says. 'Information is next to the soul in value. It is always good to know where someone stands.' She leaves, whistling cheerfully.

Some time later, your home mysteriously catches fire. You beat out the flames before the damage is irreparable, but do not escape unharmed.

Connected: Urchins increase
Connected: Hell major decrease (approx 50 change points)
Wounds increase (at least 3 points)
Austere increase

Propose an alliance

Getting them to see the benefits will take time. [This will use 5 actions but earn you Mysteries of the Elder Continent and Romantic Notions even if you fail.]
Persuasive challenge.

Reward spoiler

They shake hands

A grubby hand shakes a well-manicured one. The urchin is under the devil's protection, now. He pays you in secrets overheard through a Bazaar window.

A child's innocent face and gift for detecting hypocrisy. A devil's mercy and clever tongue. You may have just created a monster. Will any soul in London be safe?

Persuasive increase
Gain: 6 x Mystery of the Elder Continent
Gain: 10 x Romantic Notion

A misfortune at the Carnival

A day at Mrs Plenty's Carnival is interrupted by a crash, then screams! You force your way through the crowd, to see a tent has collapsed and caught fire. Two people are trapped in wreckage: a Rubbery Man and a Tomb-Colonist. The flames leap! There is time to save only one of them!
Unlocked with 10 Connected each with the Rubbery Men and Tomb Colonies

Save the Rubbery Man

His tentacles wave, plaintively. [Major loss of Connected: Tomb Colonies, some increase in Connected: Rubbery Men.]
(A straightforward challenge for your Dangerous quality. [?])

Reward spoiler

Burning Rubber

As you haul the Rubbery Man from the smouldering wreckage the Tomb-Colonist is outraged. 'You'd save a monster in place of a person?' he bellows. You turn your back. Draping the Rubbery Man over your shoulder (and trying to ignore the lumpen shape of it under its clothes) you stagger clear of the smoke.

Mrs Plenty herself is first to your side. 'An entirely unavoidable accident! Who could have predicted that putting the firebreather next to the gin tent could lead to this? Please, accept these, and visit us again under less exciting circumstances!' She presses a booklet of tickets into your hand as the Rubbery Man’s tentacles wrap gratefully around your face.

What an unusual day.
Dangerous increase
Connected: Rubbery Men increase
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies decrease
Daring increase
Wounds increase
5 x Carnival Ticket gained

Save the Tomb-Colonist!

And quickly! His bandages are already smouldering! [Major loss of Connected: Rubbery Men, some increase in Connected: The Tomb-Colonies.]
(A straightforward challenge for your Dangerous quality. [?])

Reward spoiler

Batter to the rescue!

Grabbing him by the feet you pull from him the flame and clear of the smoke. But he smoulders still! You upend a full cauldron of semi-cooked rubbery lumps from the refreshment tent over him. The sloppy batter douses the flames! He'll have a Hell of a job getting it out of his bandages, though.

Mrs Plenty, owner of the carnival, rushes up to you. 'An act of God! Entirely unpredictable! And certainly nothing to do with the fact that the lizard-throwing stall was next to the big tent where we store the naked flame and the bearded lady’s gin-bath! Here, accept these tickets as a reward for your valour. Do come again!' She presses a book of tickets into your hand. 'No charge for the rubbery lumps.' She adds, reluctantly.
Dangerous increase
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase
Connected: Rubbery Men decrease
Daring increase
Wounds increase
5 x Carnival Ticket gained

Going gentle

The letter bears the seal of an Elderly Baronet. He has lived a life long and eventful, and had his fill of it. He wishes to retire to the Tomb-Colonies to live out his days without agitation. His family do not approve. They have locked him in the attic. In a faltering hand he begs your assistance.
Unlocked with 10 Connected each with Society and Tomb Colonies

Discreetly inform the family about the baronet's communication

It is they that stand to lose, here. [Major loss of Connected: Tomb-Colonies, some increase in Connected: Society.]

Reward spoiler

A family's honour has been preserved

You call upon the baronet's family on a pretext. Over tea you return the letter to them, suggesting that it had been delivered in error, and it disappears under cover of a light joke about the postal service. As you depart, you are receive a generous gift from the cellars.

That night a carriage pulls up to the house. Several figures encourage another into it, and it departs for an unknown destination. The baronet has been moved. Hopefully to somewhere without pens and soft-hearted servants.
Connected: Society increase
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies decrease
15 x Greyfields 1882 gained

Sneak the old gentleman out

It's a bad business, to imprison a fellow in his own home. The house has stout doors and beefy butlers, but there are ways and there are means. [Major loss of Connected: Society, some increase in Connected: the Tomb Colonies.]
Shadowy challenge, straightforward < 78

Reward spoiler

Your plan is perfect

With the application of a dark cloak, a length of waxed rope, and a collapsible ladder you extract him through a dormer window. A sombre vessel awaits him at the docks. The baronet wheezes his thanks to you as it pulls away, tugging his brittle fingers from your hands. You are given a bandage-wrapped package for your trouble. It is empty, which seems odd until you think to look at the inside of the bandages and all the delicious secrets written there…
Shadowy increase
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase
Connected: Society decrease
30 x Cryptic Clue gained

Break him out!

He has made his choice. It will be respected. [Major loss of Connected: Society, some increase in Connected: the Tomb Colonies.]
Dangerous challenge, straightforward < 61

Reward spoiler

At once, you make for the house and hammer on the door

When it is opened you barge in. The butlers try to restrain you. Voices are raised. Canes are brandished. At one point, you are forced to call someone a 'varlet'. Freeing the baronet, you escort him out to the protestations of his relatives and the moans of incapacitated butlers.

In another part of the city, at a public house called the Mitre, an assembly of bandaged gentlemen welcome the baronet into their fraternity. As you leave, they are already beginning to wrap him in silk. A few days later a token of their gratitude arrives: twelve brass bullets from over the zee…
Dangerous increase
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase
Connected: Society decrease
50 x Nevercold Brass Sliver gained

Amber in the well

A whole babble of Rubbery Men have commandeered the well in Charley Square, displacing the revolutionaries who normally meet here. An odd crooning begins. Are the Rubbery Men singing to the well?
Unlocked with 10 Connected each with Rubbery Men and Revolutionaries

Convince the Rubbery Men to move on

Surely they can find somewhere else to…do whatever it is they're doing? [Some loss of Connected: Rubbery Men, greater gain in Connected: Revolutionaries.]

Reward spoiler

I wonder what they were up to…

The Rubbery Men surround the well, protecting it with stout sticks and unreadable faces. You approach and gently remind them of the favours you have done for their people. A pause. One of them inclines its head.

The next morning they are gone, and the well is empty. The Revolutionaries are ecstatic. The square's regular speakers make it a point to send you a copy of every new pamphlet that they publish. For weeks. And weeks.

Gain: 8 x Proscribed Material
Connected: Revolutionaries increase
Connected: Rubbery Men decrease significant

Convince the Revolutionaries to find somewhere else

It shouldn't take too long for the Rubbery Men to finish…that. Surely. [Some loss in Connected: Revolutionaries, greater gain in Connected: Rubbery Men.]

Reward spoiler

Let sleeping squid lie

Your acquaintance with the Rubbery Men is known, and it is assumed you are steeped in their subterranean mysteries. You use this to your advantage, weaving a horrific tale of the nightmares seething down in that well. Nauseous, the Revolutionaries decide to move out for the time being.

They peddle their revolt at the city's corners and coffee shops instead, which leads to several arrests.

In the meantime, you've acquired a reputation as something of a cephalophile. This does your social life no good, but the sting is eased when a Rubbery Man proudly fills your cupped hands with steaming amber.
Scandal increase
Connected: Rubbery Men increase
Connected: Revolutionaries decrease significant
Gain: 32 x Deep Amber

Spend the night in the well to prove there's nothing to be scared of.

There is nothing to be scared of, isn't there? [This will use 5 actions but will grant Tales of Terror!! and Mysteries of the Elder Continent even on a failure]
Dangerous challenge.

Reward spoiler

Into the well

It's not a night you care to remember. The crooning from above. Its liquid echoes. The palpitating warmth of the amber. The shapes deep inside it moving - dancing?

You distract yourself by reading a series of couplets scratched into the side of the well: phantasmagoric accounts of a distant country where days never end. What on earth are they doing down here?
Dangerous increase
Gain: 6 x Tale of Terror
Gain 2 x Mystery of the Elder Continent

They all look the same to me

A spate of book-thefts has the Constables baffled. Witnesses say that the culprit is a Rubbery Man, but the tentacled fiends have closed ranks. A Well-Intentioned Constable has arranged a line-up, and as an authority on homo cephalopoda you have been called.
Unlocked with Connected: Rubbery Men 10 and the Connected: Constables 10

Finger the guilty party

No-one understands the liquid language of the Rubbery Men, so you'll have to try and read their body language. Not that that's much clearer. [Major loss of Connected: The Rubbery Men, some gain of Connected: The Constables] (Watchful challenge)

Reward spoiler

That's the one!

Guilt leaves a mark, whether it is in a tremor in the voice, or the uneasy stillness of a faceful of tentacles. The criminal mind is an open book to you regardless of the body it's sitting in. You point the thief out to the Well-Intentioned Constable, who has his men take the creature away. It goes meekly, its round eyes fixed on your face. For an afternoon's work you earn a generous consultation fee and the respect of the Well-Intentioned Constable.
Watchful increase
Connected: The Constables increase
Connected: Rubbery Men significant decrease
60 x Rostygold

Finger a scapegoat.

It's hard to be certain with Rubbery Men, but you suspect they're colluding to confuse. They'd probably prefer you to pick an innocent. [Major loss of Connected: The Constables. Some gain of Connected: Rubbery Men.] (Persuasive)

Reward spoiler

'You see, Constable? It is irrefutable! The culprit can only be…'

You make a fine show of the investigation, asking a thousand questions about the minutiae of the case and composing an elaborate lie that ties it all together. When you lay your deception before the Constables, you reasoning is so precise, so convoluted, that no-one dares to pick it apart. One of the Rubbery Men happily takes the fall when you accuse it, and the real thief is allowed to plod off into the night.

The Well-Intentioned Constable seems sceptical, but his concerns fall on deaf ears. The following week a package is delivered to your home containing a dozen rare, banned books. Pages have been torn from each, always from chapters concerned with geological phenomena…
Persuasive increase
Connected: Rubbery Men increase
Connected: The Constables decrease
12 x Proscribed Material

Youthful high spirits

An urchin-gang, tired of life at the bottom of London's pecking order, has taken over an old clocktower near the docks and, excitingly, a cannon.
Unlocked with 10 Connected each with Docks and Urchins

Sabotage the cannon

The cannon is the problem here. Remove that from the equation and the natural order will be restored. [Major loss of Connected: Urchins, some increase in Connected: The Docks] (Shadowy challenge)

Reward spoiler

Spiking the beast

Spider-like you scale the clock tower to where the cannon's barrel juts from the old clock face. Clinging to the barrel with steely thighs you insert several packets of neutralizing chemicals, and make your way back down.
When the dock-gang march on the tower the cannon spits forth only a soggy belch. As the dockers bash the door in, the urchins flee across the rooftops in a cloud of foul language. There is an impromptu street party, in which you are plied with the finest delicacies the street has to offer.

Shadowy increase
Connected: The Docks increase
Connected: Urchins decrease
60 x Rat on a String

Convince the residents to pay their protection fees to the urchins instead

There's a simple solution to this. Besides, it does the world good to be turned on its head every now and again. [Major loss of Connected: The Docks, some increase in Connected: Urchins.] (Persuasive)

Reward spoiler

Reason prevails

There. The urchins get respect, the residents get protection, and you get paid from the urchins' stash of stolen silk handkerchiefs. Everyone's happy. Except for the dockers. They're very, very cross. Can't please everyone.

Persuasive increase
Connected: Urchins increase
Connected: The Docks decrease
50 x Silk Scrap

A familiar face by the school railings

You last saw this girl racing across rooftops with an urchin-gang. What's she doing here, all respectable? 'I got caught robbin' the Gracious Widow, didn't I? Got lucky, though. She took a shine to me. Thing is, the Widow's lookin' for a daughter, but I've already got a mum, and I ain't goin' to replace her just 'cause she died. Don't know what to do.'
Unlocked with 10 Connected each with the Orient and Urchins

Advise the girl to return to the Widow

The Widow is offering more than just comforts. With continued care and schooling, the girl might have a chance to make something of herself. [Major loss of Connected: Urchins, some increase in Connected: Orient.]

Reward spoiler

It's the best thing

As you walk her back to the Gracious Widow’s territory in Spite you fill her in on the recent antics of the Knotted Sock. She laughs a little and cries a little. Not all the memories are good. You remind her how lucky she is.

A day later a gift of jade is delivered to your home. The accompanying letter is written in a exact hand. It smells of age and the dark. 'Thank you,' it reads.

You still see the girl some days, walking back from her school with her books under her arm. She seems well.

Connected: Urchins decrease (At least 55 points)
Gain: 45 x Jade Fragment
Connected: The Orient increase (No more than 10 points)

Arrange for the girl to return to the urchin-gangs

It's not her responsibility to plug a gap in someone else's life. [Major loss of Connected: The Orient, some increase in Connected: Urchins.]

Reward spoiler

The Gracious Widow’s people escort you to her chambers

Not everyone who goes into the Widow’s den comes out again, but it's proper for news like this to be delivered in person. 'No candles,' says your escort. You deliver your message to the presence in the darkness. There is a pause. 'I see', she says eventually. Nothing else.

Three nights later the orphan-gangs hold one of their Ragged Parliaments. In a dripping factory with the Neath's glim-lights twinkling above, the girl is admitted once more into the grubby embrace of the Knotted Sock. 'Didn't notice you’d gone,' one of them tells her, and she punches him on the arm.

Connected: The Orient decrease
Connected: Urchins increase
Nightmares decrease

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Event Cards

These are events that result from increasing your Connected scores.

A rather decadent evening

A select occasion. But if you can get an invite, the wine and honey should be flowing freely

Engineer an invitation

You'll use up a substantial amount of your Connected: Bohemian quality.
Unlocked with Connected: Bohemian 10 was 5
Persuasive challenge, Connected:Bohemian challenge, high-risk at 13

Reward spoiler

Gain: 7 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
Gain: 15 x Greyfields 1879
Gain: 3 x Confident Smile
Persuasive increase
Connected: Bohemian decrease (less than 11 points)

Reward: success both Persuasive & Bohemian (from June 2011)

A wonderful evening

You can be drunk while in a honey-dream! That's interesting. Drunk or sober, in dreams or in the damp reality of Fallen London, you manage to make quite an impression. And you take some goodies home with you.

Gain: 10 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
Gain: 2 x Morelways 1872
Gain: 1 x Strangling Willow Absinthe
Gain: 3 x Confident Smile
Persuasive increase
Connected: Bohemian decrease (approx 30-50 change points)

Rare Reward

An extraordinary evening!

You can be drunk while in a honey-dream! That's interesting. Drunk or sober, in dreams or in the damp reality of Fallen London, you are the centre of attention. So much desirable company! And so little time! You're spoilt for choice. Oh, and you seem to have brought someone's gloves home with you by mistake.

3 x Confident Smile
1 x Eager Glove (I've also instead recieved Magician's Gloves)
Connected: Bohemian decrease
Persuasive increase (this is additional, beyond the initial success)

A consideration for services rendered

Hell likes to recognise those who've done it service. Would you like to be recognised?

Attend the ceremony

You'll use up a substantial amount of your Connected: Hell quality. You will also be required to provide a single soul. No, it doesn't have to be yours, silly. Although if you're offering…
Unlocked with Connected: Hell 5, 1 x Soul
Shadowy challenge

Reward spoiler

Shadowy increase
Lose: 1 x Soul
Gain: 2 x Appaling Secret
Gain: 30 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Connected: Hell decrease

Stealth watch repair

A Near-Sighted Horologist is repairing an antique watch for a prominent citizen. The Brass Embassy wants you to replace the mainspring with another - indistinguishable by sight, just a little warmer to the touch. This calls for an accomplice.
Unlocked with Watchful 35, Connected: Hell 5

Let's make this sporting

The Talkative Rattus Faber is a liability; the spice of unpredictability in an otherwise routine housebreaking. He's bound to chatter about the watch, though. You might learn something.
Unlocked with 1 x Talkative Rattus Faber

Reward spoiler

Enough about baking

Who would have guessed? When he gets to the watch itself, he's all business. The old mainspring is out and the new one in before he has time to tell you more than half the recipe for morelcap and Cheddar scones.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 55 x Nevercold Brass Sliver

Reward spoiler (rare)

A more sensitive timepiece

The Talkative Rattus Faber can't stop himself speculating as he fits the new mainspring. All about resonances and escapements and joy-sensitive alloys. And something about it being a lot of effort just to make a man two minutes late to weddings and three early to funerals. He's on the wrong track, of course, but you can draw your own conclusions about what the devils are up to.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 55 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Gain: 1 x Appalling Secret

Failure spoiler

A little too talkative this time

'Hey! What's that? Can I take it? Can I? It looks valuable. I think the cat is waking up. Do you think it's waking up? We should be quieter. Look, a clock shaped like a church! Do you think it can ring changes? Oh look, the cat's awake.' That could have gone better.

A calculated risk

More experienced than most rats, but not too proud for this kind of work. If his old wounds don't trouble him that night, it should go without a hitch. If it goes badly and the devils hear you took an inappropriate companion, however, your reputation will suffer.
Unlocked with 1 x Disgraced Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief

Reward spoiler

Slow but steady

He works less quickly than some of his kin, but he knows the business and doesn't compromise the mission. The devils are satisfied and your Disgraced Bandit-Chief looks a little more confident.
Gain: 55 x Nevercold Brass Sliver

Failure spoiler

Not too impressed

Thanks to a collapse at the wrong moment, the watch winds up entirely ruined. The devils hear more of the tale than you hoped.
Connected: Hell decrease

It's beneath his dignity, but…

You've never known him to be particularly interested in watches, let alone ones made by human fingers. Still, the Bandit-Chief has a way of making things profitable.
Unlocked with 1 x Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief

Reward spoiler

Masked lightning

The Rattus Faber Bandit-chief gets through the mainspring replacement in a trice, and emerges from the Near-sighted Horologist's desk with a bulging sack of other trinkets. Leftovers, he says, from settings and clock faces. Nothing that will be missed.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 55 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Gain: 1 x Diamond
Gain: 25 x Moon-pearl
Gain: 1 x Sapphire

You'll have to stand guard

The Working Rat can do the job, given time. You'll have to guard the corridors for him. Make sure the cats don't wake and the clocks don't chime.
Unlocked with 1 x Working Rat

Reward spoiler

Easy in, easy out

It's a quick businesslike job. The Near-sighted Horologist's mechanical genius does not extend to locks. The devils pay well. The Working Rat is strangely melancholy afterward, but a lump of Stilton cheers him up.
Watchful increase
Gain: 55 x Nevercold Brass Sliver

Maybe she'll find it comforting

This is the sort of thing she was born to do. Of course, an all-white rat does show up better in the darkness. [Success here is not guaranteed.]
unlocked with Albino Rat 1
Shadowy challenge, straightforward < 99

Requires 1 Fate

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

A limping figure in a top hat beckons

A Rubbery Man! What does he want with you?
Unlocked with Connected: Rubbery Men 5

Accept a damp gift

He's proffering something that looks like…a human wrapped in muddy muslins? An internal organ from some tremendous insect? An egg sac? He seems reluctant, though. [Accepting will cost some Connected: Rubbery Men]

Reward spoiler

Underneath the webby wrappings, something glows.

Deep amber! Handfuls of it! Covered in some sort of lemony-smelling slime, of course. But never look a gift squid in the mouth. Still, certain disturbing conjectures occur to you about the stuff…

Where did the Rubbery Man go? He was here just a moment ago.
Gain: 30 x Deep Amber
Gain: 2 x Sudden Insight
Watchful increase
Connected: Rubbery Men decrease

Rare reward spoiler

Underneath the webby wrappings, something glows…ooh, and look at this!

Deep amber! Handfuls of it! And a piece of rare Warm Amber! Covered in some sort of lemony-smelling slime, of course. >But never look a gift squid in the mouth. Still, certain disturbing conjectures occur to you about the stuff…
Gain: 1 x Warm Amber
Gain: 30 x Deep Amber
Gain: 2 x Sudden Insight
Watchful increase
Connected: Rubbery Men decrease

A new piece in the Game

She's quick-witted. And she looks respectable, which is half the battle. She'll work for nothing if you can teach her something.
Unlocked with Shadowy 81, Connected: The Great Game 1

Set her an interesting challenge

Give her a day and see what she can find out about the Cheesemonger.

Reward spoiler

Teaching the teacher

Your protégé counts off the points on her fingers. Could you have learned so much in a day? From merely gossiping at Clathermont's and the carnival? You're not sure. This one has a future in the game. And she's even picked up some things you didn't know.
Rewards:
Shadowy increase
Gain: 45 x Cryptic Clue

Rare Reward

An unexpected bonus

Your protégé returns with a hundred-page dossier. Not all her own work, of course. Some of it isn't new. Some of it isn't even relevant. But it's all useful. When you ask her where she got it all, she flutters her eyelashes and taps her lips.
Shadowy increase
1 x Collated Research

Have her help out with your current job

There is no teacher like experience. She can help you out with what you're planning this evening. [This will only help you if you are currently Seeking… or Investigating…]

Reward spoiler

Well done, young lady

Yes, not bad. Not bad at all. She may have a future in this sort of caper. And it's gratifying to have a hand in training the next generation.
Rewards:
Shadowy increase
Seeking… increase (4 change points)
Investigating… increase (4 change points)

Tea with the Inspector

The tea is strong to a point just short of savagery, but the fire in the Inspector's office crackles merrily. Conversation turns to business.
Unlocked with Watchful 81, Connected: The Constables 1

Offer your help with their case

'It's always the same with your sort, isn't it? The Constables are baffled and you consulting detectives swoop in and save the day. Well, let's see what you make of this…'

Reward spoiler

Making sense of it all

It takes you nearly six hours to solve the case of the parrot and the corpse in the laundry. The lowly Constables toast your health with their tea mugs, but the Inspector's face is frozen in a rictus of frustration as he hands you your fee.
Watchful increase
Gain: 90 x Jade Fragment

Ask for help with your case

Oh, spit it out, would you? We're all friends here and I doubt that you could shock me…'
Unlocked with Investigating… 1
(Watchful challenge)

Reward spoiler

Has this all happened before?

'You know, I think we have some old files relating to a similar business last year. I'll get Arbuthnot to dig them out. More tea?'
Watchful increase
Investigating… increase (15 change points)

Failure spoiler

Not this one

''I'm afraid that we won't help you with that business.' Does he mean 'can't'? Does he know something you don't? You'll have to look over your evidence again and check.
Watchful increase

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Story Cards

When your Connected level with a given faction is high enough, opportunities for beginning new stories become available.

The Revolutionary Firebrand

He's a mysterious figure in Fallen London, known for his reserve as much as for his good looks. It's rare that he attends social events, so when you spot him at a gathering you should seize the opportunity.
Unlocked with Connected: Revolutionaries 5

(The rest of this storylet, Intimate with a Revolutionary Firebrand, is on its own page.)

A day at the library

It's one of the university's more accessible libraries. Nothing too radical here, but a pleasant way to pass a day.
Unlocked with Watchful 24, Connected: the Great Game 3

(The rest of this storylet, On the Trail of the Cheesemonger, is on its own page.)

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