Things to do in The Flit...

When your Shadowy is 61-70 As your Shadowy improves, more actions open up to you

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…Further into Fallen London

Empress' Court

Forgotten Quarter

Courier for revolutionaries

Several cells of revolutionaries have retreated from the gaze of the Constables to the precarious walkways of the Flit.
Unlocked with Shadowy 62 (Not available with Shadowy 77+)

Taking messages

The revolutionaries need someone not of their number to take messages quickly to their earthbound colleagues. Speed in the flit is dangerous: this will take courage and precision.

_ challenge

Success spoiler

Up and under

You swing on what appears to be a ship's cable around a wall studded with bat-traps and through a plume of delicious smoke rising from some unseen bakery. It's a close thing, but you hand over your satchel of messages to your contact on a church roof, and you're away before the Constables show up.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 16 x Proscribed Material
Connected: Revolutionaries increase

Rare success spoiler

A little bonus

You swing on what appears to be a ship's cable around a wall studded with bat-traps and through a plume of delicious smoke rising from some unseen bakery. It's a close thing, but you hand over your satchel of messages to your contact on a church roof, who presses a bulging leather wallet into your hands before he scurries off.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 16 x Proscribed Material
Gain: 3 x Surface Currency

Failure spoiler

Who put that moss there?

You reflect as you dangle from moss-strewn guttering that leaping around a ramshackle aerial slum in the employment of bomb-throwing revolutionaries may not be an ideal choice for a long term career. You are too late to earn your pay. Far below you the gas-lamps sparkle uncaringly.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

a Survivor of the Affair of the Box

Cornering the Fence

You've picked up the trail of the Stuttering Fence, who dragged you into the affair of the box. He's back in the rooftops and bridges of The Flit.
Unlocks: Shadowy 62, a Survivor of the Affair of the Box 3, A Heavy Iron Box x 1

Find him among the bat-coops

Although he's not a bat-fancier himself, the Stuttering Fence hides among them.
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 71)

Reward spoiler

Grabbed in the guano

You finally sneak up on the Stuttering Fence, and a cloud of bats scatter as you grab him. You have robust and frank exchange on the subject of iron boxes, and it becomes apparent that the Stuttering Fence had you steal the box from a courier that he himself employed! This, it transpires, is because its original owner found out he had it. The original owner is Mr. Stones: a Master of the Bazaar. That cannot be good.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 1 x Appalling Secret
An occurrence! Your a Survivor of the Affair of the Box Quality is now 4!

Failure spoiler

A skittish fellow

Long years of crime have taught the Stuttering Fence to run at the first sign of trouble. Tonight that sign is you, and he's off again. You grow tired of chasing this man across gables and guttering.
Shadowy increase

Entertain the Topsy King

Where the bridges knot, the Raggedy Men amuse themselves with contests of sleight-of-hand.
Unlocks: Shadowy 64 (Not available with Shadowy 79+)

A little light legerdemain

Make things appear where they weren't. Glim behind an ear. Ferrets in trousers. That sort of thing.
(Shadowy challenge; modest at 69)

Reward spoiler

'A furred! In his kickseys! Hahahaha!'

That's good, is it? Ah, yes: here comes the traditional bag of rats. Hang on. This time, each rat has been individually wrapped and tied with a string bow. How… sweet?

Shadowy increase
Gain: 30 x Rat on a String
Gain: 30 x Silk Scrap
Connected: Criminals increase

Failure spoiler

'Brr. Me keckseys be gwethis zneesy.'

And they're gone, with you halfway through some complicated business with handkerchief and string. Had they seen this trick before? Or did the cold get the better of them? It's devilish windy up here.

Shadowy increase
Connected: Criminals decrease

Make your Sulky Bat disappear

Before their very eyes! [Be warned: this could cost you your Sulky Bat.]
(Watchful challenge; modest at 69)

Reward spoiler

'What a rum-bite!'

The Topsy King and his court are amazed! There was a bat! The bat has gone! Too excited even to insist on the traditional gift of rats, they lay whatever they can drag from their ragged pockets at your feet.

Later, you remove the struggling bat from your undergarments. You thought he was sulky before…
Shadowy increase
You're opening a Bundle of Oddities

Failure spoiler

You might be a little too good…

It's gone! In fact it's very gone, and you have no idea where. The Topsy King's court applaud, politely. Are some of them sniggering? One of them gives a loud belch, and you catch an unmistakable whiff of bat. The foul chiropterophage!

Shadowy increase
Lose: 1 x Sulky Bat

Pull your Lucky Weasel from a hat

Millinery. Unexpected animals. An unbeatable combination. [Be warned: this could cost you your lucky weasel.]
(Watchful challenge; modest at 69)

Reward spoiler

Your weasel is quite the performer

It springs excitedly from the hat, with a flourish of its little tail. Overly flamboyant, you feel, but the Raggedy Men go wild for it.

You are rewarded with what can only be described as the biggest bag of rats you have ever seen in your life. And you've seen some bags of rats. Of course, it's less impressive once your weasel has taken its cut.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 64 x Rat on a String
Connected: Criminals increase

Failure spoiler

Do weasels get stage-fright?

You instruct. You plead. You haggle. You wrangle. You consider cutting a bit off. But that d - - n weasel is not going into that d - - n hat. At least the Raggedy Men have a grand time watching the attempt.

Afterwards, the recalcitrant weasel wriggles from your pocket. You decide to go your separate ways, each of you disappointed with the other.

Shadowy increase
Lose: 1 x Lucky Weasel

Race across the Flit

The Flit boasts a unique sport: Spire running. Who will be first to make their marks on the six church spires without once touching the cobbles of the city below?
Unlocks: Shadowy 65 (Not available with Shadowy 80+)

'Spire runners - to the guttering!'

You intend to make your six marks in decent time, but not break your neck in doing so.
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 74)

Reward spoiler

Six marks it is

The bats cause a little trouble, and you have to make a detour around a muddy mushroom patch, but you climb, run and leap to a finish. You're the fourth runner to make the six marks: a very creditable performance and worthy of a purse.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 69 x Moon-pearl

Failure spoiler

Four marks and a fall

A swarm of particularly carnivorous bats attempts to eat you. Rope bridges collapse dramatically. Armed vergers take potshots. Who thought of this ridiculous pastime?

Shadowy increase
Wounds increase

Hell for leather

You're going to win this, or something very bad is going to happen.
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 77)

Reward spoiler

Six marks, and first!

You manage it! There are few thrills like running at full tilt across oily rooftops, leaping four-yard gaps and dodging bats and the occasional verger while a pack of equally desperate ruffians dog your steps. The Topsy-King presents you with a prize of a honey jar and says, 'Grand iawn, fingerboots! Six marks clean and wily!'

Shadowy increase
Gain: 36 x Prisoner's Honey

Rare Reward spoiler

A bitter prize

You manage it! There are few thrills like running at full tilt across oily rooftops, leaping four-yard gaps, dodging bats and the occasional verger while a pack of equally desperate ruffians dogs your steps. The Topsy-King looks to be in a foul temper. He sneers, 'Garbles, goden! Six marks, nay hegod vasht!'. The Raggedy Men look at their feet as he hands you a prize of something quite nasty.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 3 x Strangling Willow Absinthe

Failure spoiler

That's one hell of a leap

You can make this. Oh no, you can't. Aiee!
Shadowy increase
Wounds increase
You've moved to a new area: Watchmaker's Hill

a Survivor of the Affair of the Box

Two fine gentlemen come to pay you a visit

Jasper and Frank don't say who they work for. But they'd like the box, please. Immediately.
Unlocks: Shadowy 66, a Survivor of the Affair of the Box 4, A Heavy Iron Box x 1

It's my box now!

It's a good box. It's an intriguing box. It's a box that may well contain a fortune in glim. On the other hand, Jasper and Frank are Clay Men who look a little on the Unfinished side, and they are sporting sledgehammers.
(Dangerous challenge; straightforward at 65)

Reward spoiler

Away like the wind

A fight with two Unfinished bruisers was never going to be easy. Frank swings his hammer wildly with his one good hand, cracking your ribs. It's not obvious what Jasper is missing, but it's not strength or skill. He forces you back and almost off a bridge. In the end you run for it: you don't relish being knocked off a ledge up here. The box is still yours!

Dangerous increase
a Survivor of the Affair of the Box increase
Wounds increase

Failure spoiler

Argh!

Jasper's first blow staggers you off a bridge and into empty air. It occurs to you as you plummet through the Flit towards the cobbles that smashing to earth is probably preferable to being repeatedly pounded with sledgehammers.

Dangerous increase
Wounds increase

Give the nice men the box

Those hammers look well used and heavy. You could just hand the box over. It wasn't that good a box in any case.

Reward spoiler

All shall be well, hopefully

Jasper and Frank seem somewhat disappointed when you give them the box. Nevertheless, they have the courtesy to point out that certain parties will be watching you carefully from now on.

Suspicion increase
Lose: 1 x A Heavy Iron Box
a Survivor of the Affair of the Box increase significant

Catch me if you can!

Jasper and Frank are Unfinished Clay Men. Clay Men are known for their strength and tirelessness. Unfinished Men are notorious for their viciousness. Neither are famous for speed or agility.
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 78)

Reward spoiler

This is your territory, now. They're just visitors.

Speed, no, agility, no, determination and tenacity, dear God yes. You race across rooftops. They lumber behind. You scale ivy-snarled walls. They crash straight through. You make a quick turn around one of the supports of the Topsy King's Rope Court…Jasper attempts to follow you, and brings one whole side of the structure crashing down. Raggedy Men swarm out like enraged and disreputable ants, and Jasper and Frank turn to face them. You put some distance between yourself and the scene, smiling as the sounds of dispute behind you become more emphatic.
Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase
a Survivor of the Affair of the Box increase

Failure spoiler

Do these things ever stop?

Speed, no, agility, no, determination and tenacity, dear God yes. You race across rooftops. They lumber behind. You scale ivy-snarled walls. They crash straight through. You trip over a rope-bridge that can't possibly support their weight. They disappear from view…only for you to hear their thunderous steps climbing a stair in the building beneath you ten minutes later. All this noise and attention is making you unpopular with the other denizens of the Flit. Eventually you find a hiding-place in a long-smokeless chimney-stack. But this isn't over.
Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase
Connected: Criminals decrease 2 change points
Connected: Revolutionaries decrease 1 change point

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