Making Friends Among The Young Stags

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A Chance Encounter

This story begins with an Opportunity Card.

Make Friends with a Young Stag

Unlocks: A Person of Some Importance 1
Chuffy McAvoy-Dauntless, a noted member of the Young Stags' Club, is having an indecorous argument with his aunt in a tea shop.

Perhaps you sympathise

You could distract the aunt from her tirade on Chuffy's intolerable status as a bachelor, his worthless friends and his unbecoming habits.

Reward spoiler

Smoothly done

You slide between them Like an eel. You beg their pardon, but did you not see the lady's very image at the Royal Portrait Gallery last evening? An exquisite piece of oil work, you recall it quite clearly. No? You must be mistaken. You offer your deepest apologies. Appealing to the aunt's vanity works a treat, and Chuffy is spared the fighting edge of her tongue for while. You, on the other hand, have to sit through a catalogue of relatives whose images hang in various London galleries. Chuffy winks at you conspiratorially when she isn't looking.
Persuasive increase.
A twist in your tale! You are now Making friends among the Young Stags.

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Heading off on Larks

The following actions appear when your Making friends among the Young Stags quality is 1.

Larks with Chuffy

Unlocks: A Person of Some Importance 1
Chuffy McAvoy-Dauntless, noted wealthy layabout and member of the Young Stags' Club, knocks on your door.

If she finds out…

Chuffy has a spiffing idea for a lark. It involves catmint and unmentionables belonging to… who? A certain cat-owner? Good God. A lark's a lark, but this particular wheeze could get someone killed.
Unlocks with: Route: The Shuttered Palace 1
(Shadowy challenge, low-risk at 124)

Reward spoiler

What a jape!

You and Chuffy enter the laundry like merry ghosts. Most of the resident cats are off tormenting their veterinary surgeon, so you only have to sneak past the leopard. You douse her Grace's (surprisingly scanty) underthings in a fierce essence of catmint.

You hear reports of the next day's salon. A Persian drooled on the Home Secretary. A pair of gingers attacked an innocent mitre. A heavy-set tabby entirely destroyed the macaroons. Magnificent.
Shadowy increase
Making friends among the Young Stags is increasing… (+1 change point)
Connected: the Duchess decrease

Failure spoiler

Get it off!

Her Grace's bloomers are guarded by fierce felines. One of them is a leopard. What were you thinking? What was Chuffy thinking? Still, you have a laugh about it when you stop bleeding.

Scandal increase
Wounds increase
Making friends among the Young Stags is increasing… (+1 change point)

Joining the Stags

Unlocks: Making friends among the Young Stags 3

You get on well with these merry young chaps. Perhaps it's time to join the Young Stags' Club. [Note: you cannot join if you are a Member in Good Standing of another club. You can leave your current club via a storylet at your Lodgings.]

Option 1: Enough of this frippery

You are a serious person and must be taken seriously. Leave them to their games and their larks.

Rewards spoiler

Reward Unknown

Option 2: Spend a long evening talking

Join the Young Stags' Club

Your larks are magnificent. Are you ready to don the Wag's Antlers and the Cardinal's Bloomers, and set forth on the Joining Guzzle? Assuming you're appropriately wealthy and well-bred, of course.

Unlocked with:
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
2 x Cellar of Wine 1000 x Foxfire Candle Stub, 2000 x Greyfields 1879, 2000 x Greyfields 1882), 1000 x Lamplighter Beeswax each
4 x Personal Recommendation 1000 x Greyfields 1882, 1000 x Jade Fragment, 1000 x Moon-pearl, 2000 x Whispered Secret each

Rewards spoiler

A Stag! A Stag!

What a Guzzle! What a Guzzler! Chuffy records the splendid length of your Guzzle in the club's ledger and reads out your personal recommendations to gales of raucous laughter. You are pronounced a Young Stag on the spot. You can barely see, and you can't really feel your lips any more, but that's hardly the point. The society of London's finest wealthy wastrels is yours.

An occurrence! Your 'The Young Stags' Club' Quality is now 1!
An occurrence! Your 'A Member in Good Standing' Quality is now 1!
You've lost 2 x Cellar of Wine
You've lost 1 x Favours in High Places
You've lost 4 x Personal Recommendation
Your 'Making friends among the Young Stags' Quality has gone!

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Membership unlocks this opportunity card

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More Larks with the Young Stags

A lazy day at the club. What to do? What to do?
Unlocked with 1 x The Young Stags' Club

Put up some money for an artistic endeavour

The Stags are putting on a comedic show. They're hoping to take it to Mahogany Hall. Could you stump up some lucre for props and such?
Unlocks: Rostygold x 500

Rewards

Oh, go on then

You've lost 500 x Rostygold
Connected: Society hasn't changed, because it's too high already for this storylet… (36)
Connected: Bohemian hasn't changed, because it's too high already for this storylet… (47)

Bet 'Winkles' Cheesewright-Cheesewright that he won't steal a Constable's helmet

Old Winkles is always a fool for that bet.
(A matter of luck: a sure thing. Or is it?)

Rewards

safe bet

Winkles loses his bottle at the last moment, as usual. You accept your prize in wine rather than a forfeit. You've no need to see him without trousers again.

100 x Greyfields 1882

failure

Here it is, old crumpet!

Good God, he actually did it. Alas, now you have to do the same.

Gain: Scandal
Gain: Suspicion

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