Cultivating An Acquaintance With His Amused Lordship

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Cultivating An Acquaintance With His Amused Lordship
you are attempting to gain a valuable contact among the aristocracy
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Storyline

* The story begins via the following Bronze-bordered opportunity card:

His Amused Lordship

Unlocks: Persuasive 69, Route: the Shuttered Palace, Connected: Society 5
While attending a rather vulgar music-hall show, you bump into His Amused Lordship. He is here incognito, but his expensive hat and booming laugh give him away.

Make an impression on His Lordship

A man worth knowing. He has influence at the Shuttered Palace.

Reward spoiler

Odd but useful

His Lordship is enjoying the show. He roars with laughter at a 'toff' comedian who manages a creditable impression of His Lordship himself. The female impersonators reduce him to tears of delight. And you employ your finest quips and wittiest allusions. You say something faintly uncomplimentary about the magic act and His Lordship turns to you, suddenly serious.

'Perhaps there's more to you than ambition and fashion. Speak to my secretary. You should call upon me at the palace when I have a free afternoon.'
With that, he leaves. Well, things are certainly looking up.
You are now Cultivating an acquaintance with His Amused Lordship

* Then these two other Bronze-Bordered Opportunity Cards will rise your cultivating an acquaintance with His Amused Lordship up to 3:

A meeting with His Amused Lordship

His Amused Lordship's secretary has left you a message. His Lordship has a free afternoon and wishes you to call upon him at the Palace.

Go to the Palace

Hopefully you can cultivate an acquaintance of some sort with His Lordship. Apart from his tastes in low humour, you know little of the man, however…

Reward spoiler

By his books shall ye know him

You are shown into a book-strewn study in a half-abandoned wing of the palace. Unlike the rest of the building, His Lordship's rooms contain no mirrors at all. You accept a glass of outrageously rare Madeira and make conversation with your host.

You speak of this and that: a little politics, a little philosophy, a little religion. For a man with a somewhat dissolute reputation, his Lordship is rather erudite. Apparently he patronises the occasional scientific expedition. Now that you look, his desk is covered in works by radical thinkers. You see the writings of spiritualists, unorthodox theologians and students of the Correspondence. What is he studying?
Cultivating an acquaintance with His Amused Lordship increase

A meeting of minds

Unlocks: cultivating an acquaintance with His Amused Lordship 2, Persuasive 93
An impromptu meeting of free thinkers and radicals is happening in Veilgarden tonight. Perhaps His Amused Lordship will be there.

Gatecrash the party

Perhaps you can bluff your way in.

Reward spoiler

An intriguing offer

His Amused Lordship nods at you as you enter the private room above the coffee shop. You recognises faces of note: Feducci the duellist is here, and a certain Implacable Detective. The Detective is reading from a note-book: she describes the unnatural longevity and vitality of people from a land across the Unterzee. She almost mentions the name of the place, but is silenced by a sharp cough from Feducci. His Amused Lordship comes over when she has finished speaking.

'What do you reckon, eh? I suspect her basic theories are unsound, but one can't fault the thoroughness of her research. We've got to find out more about these places. I'm thinking of sponsoring an expedition out there in a few months. Might you be interested?'
Persuasive increase
Gain: 100 x Cryptic Clue
Cultivating an acquaintance with His Amused Lordship has increased to 3!

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