These Opportunity Cards will not appear unless your Dangerous quality reaches a certain level. They generally challenge the Dangerous quality but some have options which test other Qualities. The links below will jump to the section of the page describing Cards which unlock at that level of Dangerous Quality.
Cards which unlock between 50 and 59
What's in the sack, Jack?
A drunken fellow in the the Blind Helmsman, a notorious Wolfstack tavern, claims to have stolen Mr Sacks' sack. He's taking on all comers in a fist fight to claim it.
Unlocked with Dangerous 57
Not a word of it
You don't believe for a moment that it belongs to Mr. Sacks. There might be something good in there, though.
(Dangerous challenge)
Now let's see what's in there.
It takes a while to knock the fellow down….
Dangerous increase
18 x Proscribed Text
What is this?
The sack is empty. When you open it….
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
A riot in Spite!
A huge brawl has broken out in the markets of Spite. Has there been some sort of sporting event?
Unlocked with Dangerous 57
Wade in with fists flying
Does it matter why the riot started? It's good sport and hearty exercise.
(Dangerous challenge)
Striding through the fray like a colossus
You shove a pugnacious butcher's head into a barrel of his own pork, before turning your attentions to a gang of zailors manning a pie stand like a fort. You simply up-end the whole structure, sending them flying like skittles. A gang of rooftop urchins applauds as you pummel a trio of optimistic pickpockets. The Constables arrive before the entertainment gets too boisterous, but you have made an impressive showing.
Connected: Criminals increase
Connected: The Docks increase
Connected: Urchins increase
Too soon, always too soon
You are just getting warmed up on a trio of optimistic pickpockets when the Constables arrive. There's an army of them, and after a gallant last stand on a pie stall you go down under a hail of truncheons.
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Make off with some loot
The stallkeepers are distracted. If you can avoid the current festivities, who knows what you might snaffle from their stores?
(Shadowy challenge)
A roundabout theft
You are forced to hide in a barrel as a pair of Knife-and-Candle veterans face off against a pack of zailors. You dart behind a pie stall, just before it is demolished by a Clay Man being thrown through it. Things are getting serious if Clay Men are being hurled: time to grab the nearest sack and run before the Constables turn up.
Shadowy increase
Random reward
~40-50 pence
A peculiar practice
The Regius Professor of Additive Surgery hints that he would value tomb-colonists to dissect. Still-moving would be best.
Unlocked with Dangerous 57
Find out what he's up to
Break into his lab and take a look at his notes.
How disappointing
The Professor's rosewood desk is remarkably empty. You search it thoroughly, and all you find is a small scrap of cardboard in the lowest drawer. It bears a picture of a smiling child, painted in bright colours.
An occurrence! Your 'Playing with Broken Toys' Quality is now 1!
Turn the tables
A word to the tomb-colonists and this foul practice will surely be ended, scientific interest be d—ned!
A useful consultation
You are lounging by the Professor's rooms when four hefty tomb-colonists pay him a visit. Instead of the expected sounds of vented anger, all you hear is quiet discussion. Three colonists emerge, shake hands with the Professor, and head off through the cloisters. Their leader throws you a package as he passes. You don't see the fourth again.
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase
Connected: Summerset decrease
Random reward
~25 pence
Go a-stalking
A trip to a well-known haunt of tomb-colonists should see you richly rewarded.
(Dangerous challenge, straightforward at 77)
A bag of bones
You trail a figure in tattered rags as she stumbles through Spite. A swift cosh to the back of the skull is all it takes. What's more, she's still ali— her chest is still moving. Which will earn you extra from the Professor. You fold her up and place her in a voluminous carpet bag. It's awkward hauling the thing through the cloisters, but you expect to be well paid.
Dangerous increase
69 x Ragged Clothing
Moonish water
Who's that splashing in the alley? Urchins are frolicking in a puddle formed by glowing drops from the cavern roof. A luminescent scamp scoops some puddle water into a jar. 'All the Quality are drinking moonish water, care to try some?'
Unlocked with Dangerous 57 (but no more than 87)
Dash it from her hand
What could it contain? Chitin from uncanny insects? Elements from the aether…?
_ 
challenge
Young folks today. Wouldn't give a hot brass farthing for 'em.
You scold the urchins and tell them to get back to picking and mugging….
Persuasive increase
Gain: 65 x Rostygold
Buy some and drink it
An invigorating pick-me-up, and cheap too!
[Unlocked with 50 x Rostygold]
_ challenge
Between the stars
The stars! The lights! Are they inside your head, or pushing through the walls…?
Dangerous increase
Gain: 8 x
Appalling Secret
Lose: 50 x Rostygold
We are all in the gutter. » But some of us are looking at a hobnailed boot
The darkness embraces you like a hungry drownie, and you go face-down on the cobbles….
Dangerous increase
Lose: 50 x Rostygold
Wounds increase
From the gutter
A drunkard in a battered greatcoat lies in the gutter, nursing a bottle and shivering. He's failing to sing a song about wine and black roses. Each chorus names a different lover.
Unlocked with Dangerous 57
Pay for a room for him
You can't leave him here, he'll freeze. You know someone who'll take him in for a handful of rostygold.
unlocked with 50 x Rostygold
Heart's ease
You drag the fellow to a local boarding house, where you pay the keeper his fee. He promises to make sure your companion gets a warm room. As you turn to go, the drunk clutches at your arm and proffers a small bag, and his bottle. 'It helps mend a broken heart,' he mutters. 'And I should know.'
Gain: 1 x F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum
Magnanimous increase
unless it's higher than 8
Lose: 50 x Rostygold
Gain: 50 x Moonpearl
(random reward: I got 19 x Cryptic Clues)
Find him a job
Drag him to the lumber yards, and he'll be sober, upright and gainfully employed. And with the finder's fee you'll have a pocket of coin.
(Dangerous challenge; High-risk at 69)
A sturdy specimen
Before you can say Jack-of-Smiles, the foreman pulls the fellow to his feet, forces a tonic down his throat, and packs him off with the rest of the shroom cutters. 'Here's for your trouble, and a bit more besides,' he says. 'We've been after this one for a while — he's on the List.'
Dangerous increase
Gain: 64 x Silk Scrap
I got a Pirate Hat, so there is probably a random award
Ambushed by pirates!
You nod as you pass some zailors near Wolfstack Docks. Hang on a moment, why are they drawing weapons? Pirates!
[Unlocked with Dangerous 57]
Defend yourself!
Are they here to press you to piratical service? Paid by an enemy? Let's worry about that later, shall we?
_ challenge
Blood and glim
Once the stabbings and other necessaries are dealt with, you question those few who can still talk. It seems they robbed a fine cargo of glim a few days back and were on a drunken rampage when they came across you. You take what fragments they have remaining and bid them a pleasant evening as they moan in the gutter.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 72 x
Glim
His Young Lordship seized by tentacles
A scream from Gibbet's Wharf!
Something toothy and tentacular has plucked a child in a zailor zuit from the pierside. His nanny stands aghast as the nameless brute waves her charge aloft like a raggedy-Anne. What to do? What to do?
[Unlocked with Dangerous 57 and Dangerous no more than 87]
Sell snacks to the crowd
Zailors, clay men and spider-wranglers drift over to watch the spectacle. The landlord of the Blind Helmsman is running a book. This could go on for a while.
_ challenge
A profitable half hour
The dustbins behind the Blind Helmsman provide ample scraps which will pass in the dark and excitement as genuine rubbery lumps. You manage to get rid of the lot before his young lordship joins the drownies. A crowd of revolutionaries note your contribution to the class struggle.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 70 x
Glim
Connected: Revolutionaries increase
Heartless increase
Hack him free
'Stand aside, gentlemen. Avert your eyes, children. Hold my hat, madam. I’m coming, young sir!'
_ challenge
The darling of the docks
You flail at the tentacles with anything and everything: an anchor chain, a small dog, your bare hands and teeth. You prise the squealing aristocrat free with a hideous popping sound. A team from the Department of Monster Eradication arrives in time to fire a few rounds into the swirling black waters, and to hand you a generous reward. The aristocracy discreetly shows its gratitude as well.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 55 x Moon-pearl
Connected: Society increase
The rubbery embrace
Your flailing at the tentacles pulls a large crowd of lollygaggers, mollies and jeering strutfurrows, but your efforts are in vain. As the coils tug him under, some burly types from the Department of Monster Eradication push you aside and lasso the wee toff. You get nothing in thanks, beyond some livid circular contusions.
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Cards which unlock between 60 and 69
The Ways of the Labyrinth of Tigers
An iron-fenced maze infested with tigers. A popular attraction, nonetheless.
Unlocked with Dangerous 60
Buy a ticket to the Labyrinth of Tigers
The ticket will allow entrance, once. The Labyrinth of Tigers is most interesting for those who have Dangerous 97+. You can acquire Appalling Secrets by using Mysteries items in your inventory.
Unlocked with 10 x Appalling Secret
The poor thing
Strolling past the railings one afternoon, you see three hyaenas prowling around a tree in their enclosure. The tree contains a cat, who is attempting to look nonchalant. You could attempt a rescue…
Unlocked with Route: the Labyrinth of Tigers 1
_ challenge
A cat amongst the hyaenas
You vault the iron fence, spring across the hyaena….
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
A way to the Labyrinth
'Tonight we's doin' a lottery fer a season pass to the Labyrinth of Tigers! Oo's got the lucky ticket? Is it you?' This will allow permanent access to the Labyrinth of Tigers. The Labyrinth is most interesting to those who have Dangerous 97+.
Requires 10 Fate
Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.
The young buck
Someone is trying to kill you. Specifically, a lad barely old enough to shave is trying to make his name by taking on a veteran with a lethal reputation.
Unlocked with Dangerous 69
Indulge him
It is time for a hard lesson regarding the superiority of experience over youth.
(Dangerous challenge; straightforward at 74)
The virtues of experience
He nods hungrily at your acquiescence. He asks when you should duel. You shoot him. Perhaps he will show more wisdom when he recovers. You take his expensive cravat as a souvenir.
Gain: 69 x Silk Scrap
The virtues of youth
Perhaps you are getting careless. You expected an easy fight, but the young lad is quick and determined. The encounter sees him humbled by an unexpected low blow, but your shoulder is soaked with blood and you should find someone to take that bullet out.
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Lessons for all
I grow weary of this! All who would seek to make a name by killing me - assemble here tomorrow! We shall end this nonsense!
straightforward at Dangerous 89
A triumph of age and treachery
Is there some factory on the Wolfstack Docks churning out callow young bucks? There are a dozen of them, each more desperate than the last for fame at the cost of your hide. There are too many to fight fairly, so you take up a sniping position and start to pick them off. The wiser among them drop their purses in the hope of mercy as they run.
Gain: 84 x Rostygold
Quite a mob
Is there some factory on the Wolfstack Docks churning out callow young bucks? There are a dozen of them, each more desperate than the last for fame at the cost of your hide. Wishing to live another day, you run. Bullets and bricks dance in your wake.
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Walk away
This is simply too depressing. You are not here to kill youths, no matter how callow.
A painful dignity
Ow? What are the youth of today coming to? Are they so eager to shoot their elders in the back? O tempora! O mores!
Wounds increase
Steadfast increase
Melancholy increase
Race across the river
Messrs Leadbeater & Stainrod, one of the larger ship-building concerns on the Wolfstack Docks, are sponsoring an athletic competition…
Unlocked with Dangerous 69 and Dangerous no more than 106
[This card appears with Standard frequency]
Take part cautiously
The filthy oily water. The occasional lost sea-monster. The grasping hands of the Drownies. There's enough to worry about without trying to win.
_ challenge
A close thing
You are in the main pack of swimmers…
Dangerous increase
Gain: 69 x
Glim
Dive in and swim for victory!
Charge! Last one to the south bank is a weasel!
_ challenge
Glim and death
You power ahead, and you are out…
Dangerous increase
Gain: 84 x
Glim
A professional killer has been hired to end your life…
Unlocked with Dangerous 69 and Dangerous no more than 106
Wait for the ambush
The prudent thing to do. You will be ready for him.
| _ Dangerous challenge Broad, 100% at 115 |
Hardly worth troubling yourself
As you expect, the assassin leaps…
Dangerous increase
Gain: 69 x Rostygold
Send the assassin a box of chocolates and an insulting note
A pox upon nocturnal skulkers. Let them come! You are invincible!
| _ Dangerous challenge Broad, level 84 |
Bong!
Your note appears to have angered…
Dangerous increase
Gain: 84 x Rostygold
The Fallen Angel
Why were you at the graveyard at night, talking to the verger? It doesn't matter now. What does matter is that some villain is up on the roof, pushing a stone angel over at the pair of you. Look out!
Unlocked with Dangerous 69 (but no more than 106)
Push the verger out of the way
You'll probably end up hurt, but at least the verger will be safe.
_ challenge
Nobly done
You shove with all your strength and the oblivious verger flies over a gravestone and into the bushes….
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Gain: 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson
Connected: The Church increase
Magnanimous increase
[no higher than 26]
Go! Shove! Oops!
You shove the verger away, heroically focussing your efforts on his safety, rather than your own….
Dangerous increase
Suspicion increase
Tackle the verger
A riskier option. If you make it, you'll both be in the clear. If not, it's going to hurt.
_ challenge
Hardly a thing to bother about
You barrel into the verger, and you both go sprawling into the immaculately raked gravel….
Dangerous increase
Gain: 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson
Connected: The Church increase
Crushing weight of destiny
You barrel into the verger, and you both go sprawling into the immaculately raked gravel….
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
The marvellous contrivance
Fodder is in short supply, and the price of horseflesh has risen three times in a month. The ingenious citizens of London are turning to other means of transportation.
Unlocked with Dangerous 69
What could go wrong?
A Forward-thinking Extortionist is testing the merits of the velocipede as an escape vehicle. He has an experiment for you to perform. You are to knock a copper's helmet off and then pedal like blazes.
_ challenge
[Unlocked with Connected: Criminals 1]
You'll never take me alive!
You ride about on the uneven cobblestones, teeth rattling, searching for a likely target. There's one! Isn't that the copper who arrested you a few weeks back? You lash your foot out from your lofty perch and topple his helmet into the gutter. You pedal away sedately. He gives chase, and you pace yourself carefully, allowing him to stay with you. He gives up after more than a mile, red-faced and clutching his chest. The Extortionist is well pleased.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 69 x
Foxfire Candle Stub
Admired increase
Halt in the name of the law!
In response to an increasingly mobile criminal element, the Chief Constable has created a new Velocipede Squad. Your mission: chase down wrongdoers on a police-issue contraption.
_ challenge
[Unlocked with Connected: Constables 1]
The mismatched wheels of justice
You pedal after burglars and footpads. You leap on pickpockets from your lofty saddle, five feet in the air. Urchins scatter at your passing. The Chief Constable is impressed by your work, and the Velocipede Squad is set to expand its activities all over London. There is even talk of issuing firearms.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 84 x
Jade Fragment
The Ragman's barge
Unlocked with Dangerous 69
The Ragman's barge rides the current to the dock. The Discerning Ragman will barter curios and secrets for the right kinds of cloth.
Trade Fourth City Rags
Unlocked with 1 x Fourth City Rags
They're barely holding together. Besides, you’ll sleep far better without them whispering in the wardrobe.
A rough beginning
‘Woven from finest horsehair,’ says the Discerning Ragman, cheerfully. ‘Keeps out the cold, and thick enough to turn a slice from a blade, if you’re lucky. A shame for this poor fellow, wasn’t it?’.
He rolls it up into a tight bundle and ties a yellow cord around it, then breaks the seal on an old stone jar. ‘J.M.’ is scrawled on the side. He lets you take the contents.
/These rewards likely change, next person to try this please confirm./
Lose: 1 x Fourth City Rags
Gain: 6 x Relic of the Fourth City
Gain: 2 x Hard-Earned Lesson
Gain: 1 x Whispered Secret
Random reward
~130-150 pence
A little extortion
A wooden boat, and all this cloth. Fire is such a danger. It would be a great pity to see it all go up in smoke.
Playing with fire
The Ragman goes rigid at the mention of flame. Perspiring and stiff-jawed, he hands you a wooden box. ‘This should cover the insurance.’ He poles out to the faster current at the middle of the river and is away.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 9 x F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum/These rewards likely change, or the reward might have been changed. Please confirm./
/I received the following./
Dangerous increase
Gain: 3 x Bloodstained Suit
Trade Black Felt Garments
Unlocked with 1 x Black Felt Garments
They're looking a trifle dusty, and they're threadbare at the elbows.
A fine skin
The Discerning Ragman smiles, stroking the felt with scarred fingers. ‘I fancy I knew this skin’s owner, I’ll see it’s returned.’
He lays it carefully in a shallow leather box. In exchange, he hands you the contents of a bulging hessian sack marked ‘W.S.G.’.
lose 1 x Black Felt Garments
288 x Foxfire Candle Stub
2 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
17 x F.F. Gebrandt's Tincture of Vigour
Trade a Stained Red Velvet Gown
Unlocked with 1 x Stained Red Velvet Gown
You’re sure he won't notice that someone else’s name is on the label.
A colorful past
The Discerning Ragman examines the gown carefully. 'Not always red,' he tells you. 'If only she'd kept her wits about her, it'd still be white as white. But at least there's no hint of green, is there?'
He places it in a heavy paper wrap and binds it with a red ribbon, then lays it on a pile of similar packages. In return, he opens a box marked 'E.S.' and lets you take your pick of the contents.
Lose: 1 x Stained Red Velvet Gown
Gain: 2 x Confident Smile
Gain: 192 x Stolen Correspondence
The mummers’ dance
Unlocked with Dangerous 69
A crew of ribboned and top-hatted mummers stamp their authority on the cobbles, performing a vicious rhythmic satire about a quack doctor called 'E.E. Versengt'.
Join the dance
Bells of steel
You grab a rhymer’s hat, and lead the crew in a bawdy recreation of the good doctor bringing a man back to life. It’s got everything: pathos, bathos, clashing staves, crushed fingers and fainting audience members. After a triumphant performance, the chief rhymer hands you the collecting tin. He's grinning wickedly. 'Well danced - the tale will be at the other end of Moloch Street by midnight!'
Dangerous increase
Gain: 80 x Jade Fragment
Social commentary with bells on? You'll happily put one in the eye of the ubiquitous tonic-seller.
Set the agenda
That battered box on the cobbles is the source of the mummers' tales. If you slip your own script into it, perhaps you can steer public opinion to suit you.
A hero of the people!
Who could this Hero, this slayer of rats, this tamer of weasels, this champion of the Rings be? None can say for sure — but with a jangle of bells and a clatter of sticks, passers-by are inspired to a new respect.
Persuasive increase
Admired increase
The butt of the joke
The chief rhymer calls the tune, and the mummers' hobnails clatter into a new rhythm. It's your script! But wait… you didn’t write it like this? Who is this foolish figure at the centre of it all, mocked, reviled, the newest laughing stock of Fallen London? Oh dear.
Persuasive increase
Scandal increase
Cards which unlock between 70 and 79
N/A
Cards which unlock between 80 and 89
Pugilism and politics
A Scarred Underworld Kingpin seeks to have a Principled Junior Minister beaten to death as a reminder of who runs the city.
Unlocked with Dangerous 81
Beating the minister
He's not important enough to have a bodyguard. This should be easy enough.
Unlocked with Route: the Shuttered Palace
(Straightforward at Dangerous 86)
Principled but unpopular
The fellow puts up an admirable struggle. It seems he was quite the boxer in his youth. He's no match for you, though, and you deliver the thrashing as instructed. It seems that he's not well liked by the servants. A gaggle of them are outside the door by the time you have finished, but they let you leave with no interference.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 81 x Rostygold
Rough politics
Apparently the Principled Junior Minister used to box a bit. In fact, he used to box
a great deal. Still, your nose looks better this way.
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Beat up the Underworld Kingpin
The rule of law is paramount. And the Minister will most likely be very grateful.
(Straightforward at Dangerous 91)
Surprise!
You make your way to the Kingpin's study, ostensibly to report on your thrashing of the Minister. Then you administer a surprising twist in the tale, with the assistance of a handy chair leg. You help yourself to a bag of rostygold on the desk, and make your way out. The Minister lets you know that he owes you a favour.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 96 x Rostygold
Connected: Society increase
Connected: Criminals decrease
Bounty Hunting [Standard]
The Constables would like to interview certain persons.
Unlocked with Dangerous 81 and Dangerous no more than 118
Track down and capture a Bomb-throwing Anarchist
He's somewhere in the Flit. Beware of… well, bombs.
| _ Dangerous challenge |
[Unlocked with Route: the Flit 1]
A bucket of abuse
A blade. A firearm. A large bucket…
Dangerous increase
Gain: 81 x
Rostygold
BOOM!
A place made up of rickety gantries…
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Track down and capture Jasper
Jasper is a notoriously dangerous Unfinished Clay Man. Jasper seems to work for someone important, perhaps even the Masters. Occasionally he gets distracted and doesn't come back.
| _ Dangerous challenge |
An evening's zailing [Standard]
Pirates are getting bolder and becoming a threat to even the bigger glim-ships.
Unlocked with Dangerous 81
Sign on to guard a glim-ship
Your reputation alone might be enough to keep the ship safe.
| _ Dangerous challenge |
[Unlocked with Route: Wolfstack Docks 1
A belly full of pirates
Eyes are trained on the dim horizon…
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Join the pirates
They'll be glad of a skilled blade in case things turn bloody.
| _ Dangerous challenge |
The tomb-colonist's dogs [Standard]
The Bandage-entwined Dog-breeder is making a name for himself as a rival to Mr Inch.
Could you look after them for a day?
The Bandage-entwined Dog-breeder has urgent business South of the river. Could you look after the hounds for a little time?
| _ Dangerous challenge |
[Unlocked with Connected: The Tomb-Colonies 3]
There must be a bandage lying around here somewhere
Some dogs only ever take to one…
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase
Hunting to hound
If you can control the beasts, the Bandage-entwined Dog-breeder might lend you a few hounds for the hunt.
| _ Dangerous challenge |
[Unlocked with The Hunt is On! 1]
Off with the hounds
These beasts are more marsh-wolf…
Dangerous increase
The Hunt is On! increase
[5 change points]
The Parthenaeum
The majestic old gentleman's club is hardly a venue for fisticuffs…
Unlocked with Dangerous 81
[This card appears with Standard frequency]
Roust out an interloper
The Parthenaeum has been infiltrated! Socialites, the middle classes and other undesirables have been disturbing the gentlemen.
| _ Dangerous challenge Level 81 Broad |
A little word in someone's ear
The Parthenaeum caters to many retired officers. If your exploits are dashing enough, you could rouse them into assisting with your current campaign.
| _ Dangerous challenge Level 90 Broad |
[Unlocked with Running Battle… 1
And devil take the hindmost!
Your tales bring back memories of…
Dangerous increase
Running Battle… increase
[significant ~5 points]
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Gain: 40 x 
Gain: 30 x 
