Having Transportation Difficulties

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A Hansom is so Hard to Find These Days

This story begins with an Opportunity Card.

No trace of a hansom

Unlocks: A Person of Some Importance 1
Why are there so few hansoms around in bad weather? Do they dissolve in the fog?

To Hell with it! You'll walk.

The exercise will probably do you no harm.

Reward spoiler

stepping smartly on

A brisk walk is good for the constitution and the character. One might wish that the fog wasn't the quite the colour of charcoal, and didn't smell so very pungently of corpses and ammonia. But one must play the hand one is dealt.

Dangerous increase
Austere increase
An occurrence! Your Having Transportation Difficulties Quality is now 1!

Humbug! It wasn't that important anyway.

And there's an inviting tavern over the road. Perhaps a glass of something fortifying while the cabbies of London sort themselves out.

Reward spoiler

The wise know to stay indoors when the fog swirls black and sulphurous. Fair wine, a warm fire and good company - what more could anybody want? The world will wait for you.

Persuasive increase.
Hedonist is increasing… (No change at 15.)
An occurrence! Your Having Transportation Difficulties Quality is now 1!

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Now You Really Need One

The following actions appear when your Having Transportation Difficulties quality is 1. (The actions seem to appear in any location.)

I'll be late!

The lack of hansom cabs is becoming intolerable. A slimy street-corner draped with dank fog is no place for someone of your standing! You must do something!
Unlocks: Having Transportation Difficulties 1

Continue to rely on other means

If nothing else, Shanks' Pony will get you there.

Reward spoiler

Getting somewhere

All this walking is adding muscular definition to your thighs.
Dangerous increase
Persuasive increase
Your Having Transportation Difficulties Quality is gone!

Purchase a Respectable Landau

Few workshops make decent landaus any more. You may have to persuade a current owner to part with one.
Unlocks with:
4 x Book of Hidden Bodies 1500 x Cryptic Clue, 3000 x Whispered Secret each
2 x Comprehensive Bribe 1000 x Cryptic Clue, 1000 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey, 1000 x Silk Scrap , 1000 x Surface Currency each
1 x Favours in High Places 1000 x Cryptic Clue, 1000 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey, 500 x Proscribed Material, 800 x Stolen Correspondence

Reward spoiler

Splendid!

You have a fine second-hand carriage in mind. You cajole, bribe and blackmail the owner for several days before he agrees to part with it. The landau isn't the fastest thing on the streets of London. But it's well-appointed, respectable and it keeps the fog out.

1 x Respectable Landau

lose 4 x Book of Hidden Bodies
lose 2 x Comprehensive Bribe
lose 1 x Favours in High Places

Obtain a Landau of dubious provenance

They say That Landau was used in the kidnapping of Lord G--. And wasn't the notorious Civet thrown from the very same vehicle a week later? A little blackmail, a tin of paint, and you could have yourself a perfectly respectable carriage at a bargain price.
Unlocks with: Connected: The Great Game 20, Connected: Society 20,
6 x Book of Hidden Bodies 1500 x Cryptic Clue, 3000 x Whispered Secret each

Reward spoiler

Treading on the little people

You blackmail and weasel your way into possession of your new carriage. You offend a parvenu and a petty intriguer, but what of them? You can bear their wrath more comfortably than the fog. The landau isn't the fastest thing on the streets of London. But it's steady, respectable and there are enough of them about to keep you anonymous.

Connected: The Great Game decrease (approx 165 points)
Connected: Society decrease (approx 165 points)

1 x Respectable Landau

lose 6 x Book of Hidden Bodies

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Opportunity Cards

Once upon a time in a carriage

As you rattle down the street in your Respectable Landau, you spot a Giddy Social Butterfly failing to hail a hansom. She's dangerously close to a puddle of clinging black mud.

Offer her a lift

It would be the civilised thing to do.

Reward spoiler

'You'd never guess it to look at him, but…'

By God, this woman can talk. Luckily for you, she's just been called as a witness in a court case. A case that hurls light into some particularly dingy corners of high society. You soak it all up on the journey across town. What a stroke of luck!
Gain: 1 x Appalling Secret
Gain: 150 x Whispered Secret
Connected: Society increase 20 change points

Yah! Yah!

Instruct your coachman to speed away, and aim for the puddle. She won't even know it was you.

Reward spoiler

Trundle trundle

Sploosh! Aieeeee! He he he. Well, that was fun.
Gain: 1 x Confident Smile
Hedonist increase but no higher than 16

Sitting in the back seat of your Landau

But…
Unlocked with Having Transportation Difficulties 1, A Respectable Landau 1

Autofire

Reward spoiler

Sitting in the back seat of your Landau

But… That's it! Driver! Turn around! We have business to be about!
Gain 3 x Sudden Insight.
Your 'Having Transportation Difficulties' Quality has gone!

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