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Miscellaneous
Some Opportunity Cards simply appear and do not depend on items, Connections or Stories.
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Storylets
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No unlocks
(Mostly low level cards)
A broken mind (Std)
A man grabs you in the street. "The statue! Is it still behind me? With its crown and its sword? The devils set it on me. With their hunting horns. It wants my head!." He carries a horse's skull, still spotted with gobbets of horse.
Try to ease his nightmares
A roof over his head and a stiff cup of tea will do him the power of good.
_ Persuasive challenge (6% per point)
Take him home and squeeze him for secrets
Madmen know the choicest truths.
_ Shadowy challenge (8.3% per point)
Gain: 1 x 
Gain: 25 x 
A polite deacon needs discreet work (Std)
A Polite Deacon has a problem. The Brass Embassy have conspired with the Masters of the Bazaar to proscribe certain church records relating to devils. The books must be saved from the flames!
Persuade a courier that the books should be saved
The men of the Ministry of Public Decency are said to be incorruptible. However, they employ private couriers. And you are rather convincing.
_ Steal the books
The books burn later today. Can you pilfer them in time?
_
Connected: the Church increase
Gain: 24 x 
A presumptuous little opportunity (V.Infr)
The Portly Sommelier at Thyrsus Wines is reorganising his stock. If you're looking to exchange wine in quantity, now is your chance.
Ten cases of Morelways
The label says 'Notes of limestone, cobweb and glim-dust'. The Sommelier will take a substantial quantity of Greyfields off your hands in exchange.
[Unlocked with 1000 x Greyfields 1882]An alarming amount of Strangling Willow Absinthe (2 Actions)
Actually, the Sommelier might be in the market for some more Morelways, if the quantity is sufficient. [This choice will take a while!… so it costs extra actions. But it's a very good deal.]
[Unlocked with 400 x Morelways 1872]Perhap you're interested in an exceptional vintage? (3 Actions)
The Sommelier has some Broken Giant 1844 that he needs to unload in a hurry. He's looking for the cheap stuff. A lot of it. For reasons he's vague about. [This choice will take a while!… so it costs extra actions. But it's a very good deal.]
[Unlocked with 5000 x Greyfields 1879]An improbable exchange (3 Actions)
At the back of the shop, in a glass case, sits an ivory bottle with a label in an unfamiliar, Oriental-looking language. Even the Sommelier winces when he names the price for it. 'Specialist tastes,' he adds defensively. 'Take it or leave it.' [This choice will take a while!… so it costs extra actions.]
[Unlocked with 5 x Cellar of Wine]A potent possibility
The Portly Sommelier has arranged a meeting at the edge of the Prickfinger Wastes. He paces warily, sipping from an ivory finger-flask. "Thank you for coming. Not many of my customers would understand the value of this. But I think you will."
[Unlocked with 7 x Year of the Tortoise]
[Unlocked with Connoisseur of Neathy Delights 7]A dangerous deal
"I'm going to offer you something very valuable and dangerous, because I trust you. And because I trust you to lend me a little of your considerable fame. I am a humble man of business, and you… you are something much more. Tell me I can count on you." This will cost three points of Notability and five Tears of the Bazaar… but it will gain you a flask of M_'s B___d
[Unlocked with 7 x Tears of the Bazaar]
[Unlocked with Notability 7]
[Unlocked with Connoisseur of Neathy Delights 7]
Gain: 240 x 
Lose: 1000 x 
Gain: 96 x 
Gain: 24 x 
Gain: 1 x 
Gain: 30 x 
A street-cart is selling Fourth City Rags (Std)
They're going cheap, and they may be of use to you. But there's probably a reason why they're going cheap.
Purchase Fourth City Rags
Careful. Who knows what nightmares they might bring?
[Unlocked with 10 x Whispered Secret]
Gain: 1 x 
A Visit [Standard]
One of your acquaintances is receiving visitors. Who will you call on?
The Repentant Forger
He's trying to make an honest living as a painter these days.
[Unlocked with Acquaintance: a Repentant Forger 1]
Drop by for a chat
The Repentant Forger's studio is run-down and shabby…
End your acquaintance
Perhaps it is time to move on.
Old habits
Who are those two gentlemen heading into the Repentant Forger's studio?
Commission a painting of someone you're trying to Fascinate
Well, it is an unvarnished appeal to vanity, but it often works.
Pose nude for a painting
After quite a lot of wine, the Repentant Forger suggests that you might want to pose nude for his next work.
Visit the Wry Functionary
He can spare you half an hour this morning.
[Unlocked with Acquaintance: Wry Functionary 1]
[This storylet will not cost you an action!]Visit the Regretful Soldier
The Soldier lives in Watchmaker's Hill. He's probably sober today.
[Unlocked with Acquaintance: Regretful Soldier 1]
Visit him in his lodgings
When he's not too drunk or sorrowful, he's surprisingly good company.
Get rid of him
You've become tired of his mournful company.
Ask for help with a fight
The Regretful Soldier wishes nothing more than to revisit his glory days… He might need a little Dutch courage to get him going, though.
[Unlocked with Greyfields 1879] x 10
[Unlocked with Running Battle 1]
Goad him into a fight
He won't teach you fencing, but if you get him good and drunk he'll fight you. He's a master: you'll probably learn something if you live.
[Unlocked with Dangerous] of no more than 100
Take him to the theatre
Something light and amusing. Just the sort of thing to cheer a mournful fellow up.
[Unlocked with Counting the Days] no more than 5
[Unlocked with Spending Secrets] 4
Visit the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer
She's between shows just now.
[Unlocked with Acquaintance: Sardonic Music-Hall Singer 1]
[This storylet will not cost you an action!]
Gain: 
Gain: 
The Mob (Std)
A gang of neddy men - the Masters' enforcers - is looking for volunteers. They need sturdy types to bring a honey-addled murderess to justice, or at least hang her from the nearest gas-lamp.
Bricks and sticks
Pick up your stick and join the bloodthirsty mob armed with bricks and clubs.
_ Refuse
She may be a murderess, but if so, let it be proven in fair trial!
_ Inform the Constables
By far the safest way of getting involved. The neddy men won't be pleased, but the Constables will likely show their gratitude.
Gain: 12 x 
Subtle increase
Connected: The Constables increase
Avenge a struggling artist's broken heart (Std)
The rejection has driven him into an artistic frenzy. He needs a thimble of blood from the one who betrayed him to complete his work. "The colour!" he explains, red-eyed. "The colour must be true!"
Teach the heartbreaker a lesson
He's holding court in the Singing Mandrake, trading tales of the artist's private affairs for drinks.
_ Blood is blood
No need for a confrontation. He just needs some blood. Yours will do.
_
Gain: 24 x 
(This card comes up randomly, or you can force it from your lodgings for 1 Fate.)
Give a Gift! A commotion in the Square of Lofty Words (Std)
High on their poles in the square, the philosophers are arguing again. The point in contention: what is the truest gift for a true friend? You duck flung fruit as you pass, but their arguments set you thinking. What gift might you give?
I myself am my only true friend!
Go on. Spoil yourself.
[Unlocked with Hedonist 5]The gift of a big bag of dead rodents
What? Some people like a bit of rat.
[Unlocked with 100 x Rat on a String]The gift of admiration
Let your devotion be recognised! This will sacrifice some of your Second Chances, transferring them to a friend.
[Unlocked with 2 x Confident Smile]
[Unlocked with 2 x Hard-Earned Lesson]
[Unlocked with 2 x Sudden Insight]
[Unlocked with 2 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note]The gift of a great Fate (0 Actions)
True affection sometimes permits tremendous sacrifice. Gives another player one Box of a Hundred Wonders, containing a hundred Fate.
Requires 100 Fate
Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.The gift of jewels
Shiny, portable, and delicious in soup. Ruby soup.
[Unlocked with 3 x Flawed Diamond]
[Unlocked with 3 x Venom-ruby]
[Unlocked with 3 x Sapphire]The gift of a name
About time your pet had a new name! Names are the grandest gift of all.
The gift of a big box of live rodents
The Scuttering Boys have found a new base in a larder of Watchmaker Hill… and they're making lightning raids through the postal system. Send a box of lethally armed saboteurs to a friend, but not a badly wounded one. That would be unsporting. You may not rat-up a player with more than three wounds.
[Unlocked with 500 x Rostygold]The gift of the unexpected
Send your friend something neither you nor they can be entirely certain of. Something very likely pleasant. Very likely.
[Unlocked with 1000 x Penny]
Gain: 1 x 
Gain: 1 x 
Gain: 1 x 
Gain: 1 x 
Lose: 3 x Flawed Diamond
Lose: 3 x Venom-ruby
Lose: 3 x Sapphire
Lose: 1000 x Penny
An unusual wager [Standard]
A capering and probably honey-mazed individual is flinging handfuls of small coins at passersby and shrieking.
Accept the wager.
'Heads! And I'll teach you a line from the song that Cleopatra sung to gull poor Marcus. Tails! And you EAT THIS LIVE BAT IN PUBLIC!' Warning: your Persuasive may drop if you lose.
A matter of luck: it could go either way.Look at those coins
The honey-mazed maniac hefts a handful of change at you. 'Can you catch?'
A matter of luck: it could go either way.
[Unlocked with Spending Secrets 4]
Gain: 1 x 
Gain: 1 x 
'You've said that there's a certain well known tree…'
that grows from nothing in a day….lives only as a sapling, dies just at its prime, when good men raise it as their idol…' That tree's blossoms are ears that drink the secrets of the city. The tree is flowering now, they say, somewhere in the Forgotten Quarter…
Find it. It can tell me what I need to know about my target.
It won't be easy to track down…
Unlocked with Investigating… 1, Watchful 20
(Watchful challenge)Find it. Its secrets must be worth hearing
It won't be easy to track down…
Unlocked with Watchful 20
(Watchful challenge)Find it. It can put me on the trail of my quarry.
You'll need to find it first…
Unlocked with Seeking 1, Watchful 20
(Watchful challenge)
Gain: 10 x 
A voice from a well (Rare)
Someone is shouting from a well in the overgrown shadows of Big King Square. The passersby close their ears and hurry on. How curious are you feeling?
Peer over the top of the well
Is it a voice? It sounds harsh and broken, almost like a dog barking.
Peer over the top of the well
Is it a voice? It sounds harsh and broken, almost like a dog barking. And, somehow, familiar.
[Unlocked with Unaccountably Peckish 1]
Gain: 1 x 
Pass the Cat: a wriggling delivery [Unusual]
The game of Pass the Cat has grown fashionable lately, despite the Duchess' displeasure…
Accept the delivery
'Sign for it? Why do you want me to sign for it?'
An elaborate strategy
Problems with Scandal? Perhaps you can use this as a diversion. But it might rebound on you…
_
Gain: 1 x 
A day at the races [Standard]
Shroom-hopping races are a popular event at Bugsby's Marshes.
The Hopping Post
If you aren't lucky enough to attend an event in person, you can settle down with London's finest racing periodical.
A disgraceful spectacle
Shroom-hopping indeed! That reminds you. You'd been meaning to write to the papers: a stern letter about the disgraceful spectacle of shroom-hopping and the low behaviour it encourages.» [Persuasive challenge (4% per point)]
Connected: 
Connected: 
Connected: A stroke of luck!
You overhear two race-goers discussing the location. Today, is it? Get in while you have the chance. The speed! The thrills! The occasional amusing death! And the hats! The improbable hats! This will move you to a special location, clearing your Opportunity hand. Be ready. Shroom-hopping is most suited to those with a level of 40 or higher in at least two statistics.
This branch costs 3 Fate to play.
Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.
Mr Wines is holding a sale! [Standard]
Mr Wines, the Master who deals in drinkables, is throwing open its cellars…
A discount for purchase in bulk
The Masters of the Bazaar do not approve of discounts. However, you may be able to negotiate a good rate if you need a genuinely epic quantity of wine. You can acquire Romantic Notions by using Nostalgia items in your inventory.
[Unlocked with 80 x Romantic Notion]
The unlabelled box
Jervaise has a number of mysterious boxes from the far reaches of the cellars. No guarantee is made as to their contents. But they seem popular. You can acquire Touching Love Stories by using Nostalgia items in your inventory.
A matter of luck: it could go either way.
[Unlocked with 1 x Touching Love Story]
Honeyed laudanum
A radical creation, offered only to the most select of customers. It is unlabelled. Jervaise whispers that it ensures that dreams are never forgotten, even when nightmares become too much to bear… Prevents loss of Dreams qualities in the State of Confusion. Each vial is good for one incident of insanity.
Requires 9 Fate
Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.
Gain: 1 x 
A Sporting Sort (Std)
Shroom-hopping…
Worth a flutter?
One of your sporting associates has a hot tip: the Turkish Girl is on form for tomorrow's shroom-hopping meeting. She favours boggy, spore-laden tracks and you can get a cool three to one on her.
[A matter of luck: it could go either way.]
[Unlocked with 100 x Deep Amber]
Wanted: Reminders of Brighter Days [Standard]
You scan the classified advertisements at the rear of the Gazette…
An opportunity of business
There's significant money to be made here. Do you know anyone on the Surface who might bring you a few things for a cut of the proceeds?
The tiniest of classified advertisements
A professional gossip is after the materials for his trade. In return, he offers material for blackmail at a decent rate of return. This will always get you blackmail material. You may receive other things too.
A matter of luck: it could go either way.
[Unlocked with 25 x Incendiary Gossip]
Gain: Unknown
Gain: 1 x 
On Matters of Love
You always loved them… But they stayed on the Surface. No longer.
Platonic affection
One's decorum must not be disrupted by romance. One must have priorities. Platonic priorities.
It was a complex affair
Breathless embraces in doorways. Screaming arguments in Paris. Love is brightest when it transcends limitations.
Passions without restraint
Langorous evenings that turned into mornings. Kisses stolen in church. The sating of unusual hungers.
Gain: 2 x Other unlocks
(Cards with odd unlocks that don't fit neatly into one of the other categories)
Neighbourhood watch (Std)
A spate of area-diving plagues the residents of Moloch Street. Opportunistic burglars slip into homes through the entrances used by the kitchen staff. The residents have pooled their resources to hire a watchman.
[Unlocked with Dangerous no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Persuasive no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Watchful no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Shadowy no more than 20]Watch the crowd
Moloch Street is a busy thoroughfare, but patience is the key. The criminal only has to make one mistake.
_ Watchful challenge (5% per point)
Organise an inside job
If you can win the residents' trust, you'll be in the perfect place to pull a heist…
_
Gain: 24 x 
A jewel-thief needs an accomplice (Std)
A jewel thief of your acquaintance has a job lined up. Apparently, a charming young heiress has acquired a glim-necklace from an admirer. A pair of bold thieves should have little trouble stealing it.
[Unlocked with Dangerous no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Persuasive no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Watchful no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Shadowy no more than 20]Get the jewel-thief to stand guard while you sneak in.
You prefer to do this kind of work alone.
_ Stand lookout while the jewel-thief slips inside
He's the expert. Your efforts are better spent making sure there are no complications.
_ Wait a minute. This is the house of your charming young heiress!
Who is that gentleman you can see at the window? And where are his trousers?
[Unlocked with Seduction: Honey-sipping heiress 1]
Connected: Criminals increase
A stranded urchin (Std)
High above the cobbles lies the Flit, a rooftop kingdom ruled by the city's thieves. An urchin girl has been cast out. The price of her return is a painting. "Wot?" she says, picking her nose, "You fink we don't appreciate art up there?"
[Unlocked with Dangerous no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Persuasive no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Watchful no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Shadowy no more than 20]A painting? She shall have a painting!
Create a work of staggering brilliance.
_ See what you can scrounge up
You can't move for hopeful artists in this city. There's bound to be something suitable lying about.
_
Retrieve a courier's correspondence (Std)
'It was one of them urchins! She hit me with a sockful of something and made off into the alleys!' A sockful of what? Probably best not to ask.
[Unlocked with Dangerous no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Persuasive no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Watchful no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Shadowy no more than 20]Track the culprit down
You have to head her off before she makes it back to the Flit, the rooftop kingdom where the city’s criminals hold sway…
_ Talk the urchin into giving it back
She can't have got far - she's probably still in earshot.
_
'Stop! Thieves!' (Std)
The crime is only moments old. Two men stole a watch and fled into the tangle of the Flowerdene Rookery, where bad things happen to desperate people.
[Unlocked with Dangerous no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Persuasive no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Watchful no more than 20]
[Unlocked with Shadowy no more than 20]Chase after them
There's nothing in there more dangerous than you.
_ The rookery is a distraction. The watch is going somewhere else.
You just have to get there first.
_
A night out
A merry evening at a public house. A drunk is passed out in the corner. An academic sits with an empty glass and a book. A fist-fighter takes on all comers. A figure watches it all from a corner. Which of these is you?
[Unlocked with Dangerous 30, Persuasive 30, Shadowy 30, Watchful 30]The silent observer
Casing the next victim, or just minding your own business?
The academic
Alone with a book, even in a crowd.
The fist-fighter
Always looking for the next victory.
The drunk, alas
Sometimes it all gets a little much.
An elderly lady has hailed the hansom cab you wanted! (Std)
The poor old soul is shivering in the cold. But you're in a hurry.
[Unlocked with Magnanimous 1]
[Unlocked with Ruthless 1]Be Ruthless. Shove her aside.
You've no time to waste on this nonsense.
Be Magnanimous. Let her have the cab.
You're not in that much of a hurry. She looks frail, and it's a very cold night.
You're a complicated person…
Let her have the cab. Pick her pocket on the way past.
_
Gain: 20 x 
Menace Reduction
Some Opportunity Cards have great use in reduction of Menaces
A Moment's Peace
When did you last sleep well? Just one night. Just one night without the terrible dreams.
Relax and enjoy
Sometimes, even the dank and mushroomed parks of Fallen London are peaceful. Sit on a park bench and admire the passers-by in their weird subterranean fashions; the church spires silhouetted against the lights in the roof of the Neath; the hundred livid colours of fungus in perpetual autumn.
Take some honey with a friend
Perhaps your dreams won't be so horrific if you have good company. This will allow you to share a honey dream with a friend.
Unlocked with 50 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey, Counting the Days 0-5, Spending Secrets 4.Read a calming book
Some starchy classical poetry, perhaps. Or a look through Slowcake's Exceptionals. Nothing racy, and none of this Gothic nonsense.
Unlocked with Counting the Days 0-5, Spending Secrets 4Mysticism and mesmerism
Perhaps there's something to this. The Theosophists and their ilk can't all be frauds, can they? Perhaps they can grant you a decent night's sleep.
Unlocked with Counting the Days 6-9, Spending Secrets 4
Physical exercise and exertion
If you're stumbling with exhaustion, perhaps sleep will be a merciful, thoughtless oblivion, at least for a few hours.
Unlocked with Counting the Days 10-11, Spending Secrets 4Follow a light into the trees
A pale light among the withered aspens, cool as moonlight. This option will always remove all your Nightmares, and may have other effects.
Requires 6 Fate
Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.
Lose: 50 x 
A Restorative [Standard]
Perhaps you are feeling listless…
Scraps from the table
Fresh food from the surface is rare. Even gentlemen of means do well not to ask where their chops come from, or whether their potatoes are, in fact, potatoes. You have, however, struck up a casual acquaintance with a chef of some repute, who will let you have some leftovers. This will heal some wounds.
An exclusive dinner party
If you're the right sort, or at least if the right people think you're the right sort, you can find your way to obtaining an invitation.
[Unlocked when Closest To is: The Masters of the Bazaar, The Constables, Society, The Church, The University, The Duchess, Bohemians]
The Itinerant Physician
Few people take female doctors seriously. If you think otherwise, the Itinerant Physician will remove the unnecessary and sew up the gaping for a small fee.
[Unlocked with 75 x Glim]
Can you be so unwise?
The wretched, the forgotten and the truly desperate sometimes turn to the vile lemon-scented slime of the Rubbery Men to cure their ills.
A sumptuous repast!
If you're very lucky, the chef will deign to cook for you himself. This will heal all your wounds.
Requires 5 Fate
Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.
An afternoon of good deeds? [Standard]
Sometimes, opportunities for virtue arise.
Unlocked with: Scandal 2Quite a moral afternoon.
You assisted two bewildered travellers who'd somehow been directed down towards Spite. You returned a small child to its wailing mother. You even rescued a fainting nun. But modesty is chief among your virtues. You'll say nothing to anyone.
An afternoon of mischief!
You redirected two lost travellers in Spite down the road to the Prickfinger Wastes. You returned a small child to its wailing mother…after you'd loudly and publicly comforted him, drawing admiring glances from the current objects of your affection. You pocketed a jade rosary from a fainting nun. Great times.
[Unlocked with Ruthless 5]
Quite a moral afternoon. Let's make sure it's appreciated.
Quite a moral afternoon. You assisted two bewildered travellers who'd somehow been directed down towards Spite. You returned a small child to its wailing mother. You even rescued a fainting nun. Now let's make sure everyone's aware of it.
[Unlocked with Spending Secrets 4]
[Unlocked with Counting the Days no more than 5]
[Unlocked with Subtle 4]
Hide from those who would hound you
Is it the press? The Constables? Or an endless gallery of creditors, abandoned lovers and people you have no memory of at all? You can lose their attention handily.
Blame someone else for your sins
You were led astray by ne'er-do-wells and scoundrels. You were despoiled! Hoodwinked! It certainly, definitely wasn't your fault.
A plaster saint!
One extraordinary good deed can outweigh any amount of petty scandal. This will always remove all your Scandal and a considerable amount of your Suspicion - it may have other benefits.
This branch costs 7 Fate to play.
A matter of luck: it could go either way.Requires 7 Fate
Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.
Connected: 
Gain: 1 x 
Gain: 10 x 
Other cards with no unlocks
(listed on other pages)
- The Coquettish Relicker and Mathilde are Making the Rounds found on The Relickers.
- The Curt Relicker and Montgomery are Moving Quietly Past found on The Relickers.
- The Capering Relicker and Gulliver are Outside in the Street found on The Relickers.
- The Shivering Relicker and Pinnock are Trundling By found on The Relickers.
- The Alleys of London: the Criminals found on Criminals.
- By the River's Side: the Docks found on The Docks.
- Burning Shadows: the Devils of London found on Hell.
- An unwise ambush found on Dangerous Cards.
- Will nobody help the poor fellow? found on Dangerous Cards.
- The Stray found on Dangerous Cards.
- Assistance needed for lynching found on Dangerous Cards.
- Mixing with the toffs found on Persuasive Cards.
- Entertaining the masses found on Persuasive Cards.
- The salvation of a Rubbery Man found on Persuasive Cards.
- The Poet of the Streets found on Persuasive Cards.
- Have you a handkerchief? found on Shadowy Cards.
- Feasting on the remains found on Shadowy Cards.
- Picking pockets: an easy mark found on Shadowy Cards.
- An opportunity for dragsman's work found on Shadowy Cards.
- A consideration for services rendered found on Shadowy Cards.
- An intriguing rumour found on Watchful Cards.
- City Vices: Orthographic Infection found on Watchful Cards.
- Just who is Blue Jack? found on Watchful Cards.
- Eavesdropping in the garden. found on Watchful Cards.
- Quite a few of the Connection Dependent Cards. (?)
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