Mourning Candle

Mourning Candle
They give out a smudgy, dolorous light. From the tomb-colonies, but it's best not to ask how they're made.
Sells for 2 echos 50 pence

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Using Mourning Candles

Trade your Mourning Candles

Get rid of them before you accidentally light one and burn up a fortune.

The Radical Factotum will take them off your hands

'Mourning Candles are most useful to my patron's work. She will be delighted.'
[This will always gain you Patent Scrutinizers. It may have other effects.]
Unlocked with 25 x Mourning Candle. Connected: Revolutionaries 6.
A matter of luck: pretty good odds.

Lucky spoiler

What is he talking about?

'We now have most of the lens-work done. The Great Downward Engineering.. .operation… put us forward by months. The device will be ready soon. If you're not with us body and soul, you'd best be heading back up to the Surface.'
You were fortunate!
Lose: 25 x Mourning Candle
Gain: 5 x Patent Scrutinizer
Connected: Revolutionaries decrease
Gain: 4 x Incendiary Gossip

Unlucky spoiler

Repayment in glass

'Take this crate. We weren't after these when we, ah, visited, Great Downward Engineering, but they're worth a substantial amount. We wanted the bigger lenses.'
You were unlucky. Better luck next time…
Lose: 25 x Mourning Candle
Gain: 5 x Patent Scrutinizer
Connected: Revolutionaries decrease

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