Things to do in Ladybones Road...

When your Watchful is 41-50

31-40 51-60

Recover illegally traded souls

A newspaper advertisment: Consulting detective required for recovery of illegally obtained souls.
Unlocked with Watchful 41

Availability spoiler

No longer available when with investigating the Secrets of St Dunstan's greater than 5?

Saving souls

Intriguingly, the client is the Church. The old priest's offer barely covers your expenses, but they say it's the Lord's work.
(Watchful challenge; straightforward at 50)

Reward spoiler

Mother's ruin

Your investigations lead you to a squalid, malodorous gin parlour near St. Dunstan's church. You don't catch sight of any devils, but from what you can get out of the few gin-soaked locals still in possession of their souls, they have been seen here in recent times. You brave the place long enough to work out where the stash of souls is, and report it to both your employer and the Constables. You don't report the cache of nevercold brass that you find at the back. It's not relevant to the case, is it? You pocket it as recompense.
Watchful increase
Gain: 30 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Connected: Church increase (1 change point)
investigating the Secrets of St Dunstan's increase (1 change point)

Failure spoiler

Over before it starts

You can't help but think that there is more here than meets the eye. You narrow the search to a small area, but everywhere you turn, your moves have been anticipated and countered. Local tramps have seen nothing. The trail leads to a gin palace - which closes suddenly. The priest at the nearby St Dunstan's gives you a series of leads that go nowhere. You are at a loss.
Watchful increase
Nightmares increase

Lay out a false trail for a spy

Spies from the surface abound in Fallen London. This one in particular has been getting results, and needs to be led astray.
Unlocked with Watchful 44 No longer available at Watchful 59

A trail of breadcrumbs

A scandalous secret whispered here, an intriguing document carelessly left there. This will be interesting.
(Watchful challenge; straightforward at 53)

Reward spoiler

"It's all happening in the prison!"

The false trail that you lay out is both intriguing and plausible. The spy eagerly listens to your lies and rushes to the next item on the trail with gusto. A few days of this, and the spy is convinced that there's a cabal of orientals and churchmen running Fallen London from a secret lair in New Newgate Prison. The spy rushes back to the surface to report her findings, and you are paid as agreed.
Watchful increase
Gain: 48 x Silk Scrap
Connected: Great Game increase

Rare Reward spoiler

Blushing at your observations

You lay out a trail of dead-drops, meetings and and assignations. But what's this? You set up the meeting to ensure your spy would be alone. But she's with someone. And they're… Good Lord! Does her mother know she does that sort of thing?
Watchful increase
Gain: 9 x Romantic Notion

Failure spoiler

Spies spying upon the spies

The false trail that you lay out is both intriguing and plausible. The spy eagerly listens to your lies and rushes to the next item on the trail with gusto. A few days of this, and the spy is convinced that there's a cabal of orientals and churchmen running Fallen London from a secret lair in New Newgate Prison. The spy rushes back to the surface to report her findings. Unfortunately, a week later another half-dozen spies arrive to follow up her investigations! Your employers are far from pleased.
Watchful increase
Nightmares increase

Night watch at the Brass Embassy warehouse

Hell's most successful trading company, Abbadon & Bael, is hiring.
Unlocked with Watchful 45

Easy money?

'It's pure monkey work,' says the corpulent goat-demon at the warehouse gate. 'Just stay awake, keep an eye on the stock and make sure nothing escapes. You don’t scare easily, do you?'
(Watchful challenge; straightforward at 54)

Reward spoiler

A night of hinted horrors

You tour the warehouse every hour with a candle. There are crates made of bone that weep at your approach, instruments of torment imported from Italy, huge hissing vats of hydrogen, and a red-lit room full of squirming hessian sacks.

A fresh consignment of souls, borne by two cloaked men, arrives on the stroke of midnight. Their eyes gleam beneath the brims of unnaturally tall hats. You are relieved when the morning comes.
Watchful increase
Gain: 49 x Nevercold Brass
Connected: Hell increase

Failure spoiler

This is no place for a snooze

Despite the persistent sobbing and shrieks from the soul cages, your eyelids soon begin to droop. In your dreams the Unterzee boils and the roof squirms with pale wormish creatures. You are woken by the irritated foregoat and dismissed without payment.
Watchful increase
Nightmares increase

Scrutinise infernal contracts

The Brass Embassy is so tangled in paperwork that Hell itself is recruiting temporary staff to handle the backlog.
[Unlocked with Watchful 47]

Disentangle the red tape

A bespectacled devil locks you into a stifling, windowless room, stacked with reams of ribbon-tied parchment. Well, it looks like parchment. Somewhat oily parchment, perhaps, and occasionally tattooed.

_ challenge

Success spoiler

adultery, arsenic poisoning, arson…

'For details on completing form b7124 (autocannibalism), please read guidelines on form X987ii (victimless crime). Please note that chit k6578 (parricide) requires a signature from next-of-kin. Please use red ink only….'

It is grim work, but fascinating. Who knew there were so many evildoers in the world? And that so few of them know how to spell? You discover a few intriguing titbits about the private members clubs in Big King Square, and several appalling hushed-up crimes from yesteryear.

Upon your release, you cut a deal with the bespectacled devil to keep these secrets in lieu of payment.
Watchful increase
Gain: 25 x Cryptic Clue
Connected: Hell increase (1 change point)

Failure spoiler

Hell is other people's handwriting

The combination of horror and extreme petty-mindedness, all rendered in spidery red ink, makes your head swim. There is a burning pain behind your eyes. There's no air in here! You can't breathe! Eventually you are forced to admit defeat. A sniggering succubus from the secretarial pool escorts you to the rear exit.

Watchful increase
Nightmares increase

Industrial espionage!

The constables suspect that stolen goods are moving through the Brass Embassy’s secret export network. They need an eye on the inside. Spying on the dealings of devils is a dangerous occupation. One thing is for sure: if they catch you, they won’t kill you. Not for weeks.
[Unlocked with Watchful 50]

Investigate the Embassy warehouses

You've done enough nightwatchman work to earn the foregoat's trust. You'll have the place to yourself tonight…
A challenge for your Watchful quality. [straightforward at 59]

Rewards spoiler

Interesting…

Once you are alone, you take a crowbar to the warehouse supplies. Bottles of monkey teeth, brass buttons, a consignment of human ears… all the usual stuff. However, you do come across a large cache of unlicensed souls, no doubt stolen by unscrupulous spirifers. They moan sadly in their little bottles.

The Constables are pleased to hear of your findings, and reward you handsomely.

Watchful increase
Gain: 54 x Rostygold
Connected: Constables increase [1 cp]

Rare success

Rare Success!

Hello, what's this? Hidden deep in the warehouse, beneath a tarpaulin that sticks to your hands like taffy, you discover a pile of boxes marked "PROPERTY OF MR MIRRORS" that don't appear on any manifest. Best not to open them. They growl. This secret is too dangerous for the Constables. But you might find a buyer at the Bazaar.

Watchful increase
Gain: 5 x Appalling Secret

Failure spoiler

The wrong box

Once you are alone, you take a crowbar to the warehouse supplies. Unfortunately, the first crate you crack open holds a consignment of carnivorous cockroaches. Argh!

Watchful increase
Wounds increase

Investigate the Embassy offices

You are a dab hand at infernal paperwork by now, and you've made some friends in the secretarial pool…
A challenge for your Watchful quality. [straightforward at 59]

Reward spoiler

A valuable clue

You've become friendly with an excitable young succubus from Accounting on the fifth floor, who has a habit of leaving documents in the Embassy refectory. They're coded, of course, but you know enough to glean some useful facts. It seems that the Embassy has a number of particularly nasty spirifers - soul thieves - on the payroll. The Constables will be delighted.

Watchful increase
Gain: 54 x Rostygold
Connected: Constables increase

Failure spoiler

Ouch!

An attempt to rifle through an Embassy filing cabinet goes awry when the damn thing snaps shut on your fingers hard enough to break them. One has to be careful around here. Much of the office equipment is sentient.

Watchful increase
Wounds increase

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