Things to do in Ladybones Road...

When your Watchful is 51-60

41-50 61-70

Track down a Spirifer

You've had a tip-off about a gang of Spirifers working around St Nathanael's Hospital.

Spirifers prey on the almost dead, those unfortunates with a slippery grip on their souls. In Fallen London, where one can be almost dead indefinitely, spirifers do a roaring trade.
Unlocked with Watchful 53

Watch from the rooftops

A convenient skylight beckons. But watch your step, it's a long way down.
(Watchful challenge; straightforward at 62)

Reward spoiler

A perfect vantage point

Sprawled on the hospital roof, you watch as bandaged invalids are wheeled into the ward and left in rows. Before the night is out, a spirifer comes to call at their bedsides. He is an unnerving sight; eyes like yellow diamonds, a mouth like a slash in a rubber sheet, and the most unnaturally enormous hat.

He leans over a bedside, and with a device like a five pronged tuning fork, gently winds the soul from from an invalid's mouth.

It is a simple matter to follow him home. A quick tap on the back of the head with your trusty knoblolly and he falls stunned. You resist the urge to murder him and help yourself to his stock instead.
Watchful increase
Gain: 28 x Souls

Failure spoiler

A curse upon tilers and gutterers!

The hospital roof is falling to pieces! You snag your favourite trousers on a jutting weathercock, and a collapsing slate alerts the brawny nurses. Time for a discreet exit. Tomorrow night, perhaps…
Watchful increase

Disguise yourself as an invalid

Skulking be damned, you should infiltrate the hospital!
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 57)

Reward spoiler

You're in!

And sure enough, before the night is out, a Spirifer comes to call at your bedside. He is an unnerving sight; eyes like yellow diamonds, a mouth like a slash in a rubber sheet, and the most unnaturally enormous hat.

Fortunately, he's not expecting trouble. A quick tap on the head and he's out like a light. The hat, it turns out, is where he hides his stolen souls. You feel bad about helping yourself, but these souls will be better off at the Bazaar than in Hell.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 28 x Souls

Failure spoiler

"You don't look very ill to me, Sir…"

Perhaps the green pancake foundation was a little over the top. You are politely escorted from the premises.
Shadowy increase

A raid on the Brass Embassy!

You have discovered some exciting news. The Constables are planning a midnight raid on one of the Brass Embassy's secret warehouses. You stand to gain - and possibly lose - a great deal from this intelligence.

NOTE: This storylet disappears once you succeed at it, no matter which choice you make. Choose carefully!
Unlocked with Watchful 53

Plan the raid for the Constables

You can sketch the warehouse layout from memory, and you know exactly when the foregoat takes a sandwich break…
Unlocks: Connected: the Constables 3
(Watchful challenge, straightforward at 68)

Reward spoiler

Open up in the name of the Empress!

You lead a troop of Constables to a fog-shrouded wharf. The warehouse doors are soon splintered and the devils within taken by surprise. A search reveals a large cache of stolen souls. The grateful Constabulary allow you to pick your reward from the warehouse stock.

You can only hope none of the devils on duty recognised your face. In this city, word gets around…
Gain: 60 x Nevercold Brass
A twist in your tale! You are now a Constables' Pet.
Connected: Hell decrease (possibly instantly to 0, went to 0 for me from 3 or 4)

Failure spoiler

"Raid? Don't know nothing about no raid. Run along now."

The hatchet-faced duty Constable is unconvinced by your scrawled map and semi-legible notes. Perhaps if you try again later…
Watchful increase

Warn your contacts at the Embassy

The Constables have entrusted you with every detail of tonight's raid. The poor credulous fools.
Unlocks: Connected: Hell 3
(Watchful challenge, straightforward at 68)

Reward spoiler

The anxiety of betrayal

The matter is easily arranged. A quiet park bench in Jekyll Gardens, a scrap of parchment slipped into a cloven hand.

The morning brings news of a disaster for the Constabulary. Apparently, three stout hearted officers were injured in an abortive raid on a Brass Embassy warehouse. They found nothing illegal, nothing at all in fact, except a single crate of flesh-eating nubworms.

Nubworms go for the tongue. You don't like to think about it.
Gain: 63 x Nevercold Brass
A twist in your tale! You are now an Infernal Informant.
Connected: The Constables decrease (a lot - 18 to 12 for me)

Failure spoiler

Where is that damnable devil?

Try as you might, you can't reach your contact at the Embassy. Perhaps he's on holiday. Do devils take holidays?
Watchful increase

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