Non-Dependent Cards

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Miscellaneous

Some Opportunity Cards simply appear and do not depend on items, Connections or Stories.

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An unusual wager

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.)

Reward spoiler

Heads!

He leans close to whisper the secret words. You almost gag at his breath, thick with the scents of honey and rot…and, you suspect, bat's blood…but you memorise each one. It'll help your eloquence significantly.
Persuasive increase

Unlucky spoiler (unknown)

A broken mind

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, straightforward at 15

Rewards spoiler

The hardest part is convincing him to leave the skull outside

He speaks of a forgotten quarter of the city where devils play and kings died. He eats sugar lumps by the handful. You hush his raving, and encourage him to talk of earlier, better times. Slowly, he begins to remember who he was. He will never sleep well, but at least now his dreams do not stray into his waking life. He leaves you with a headful of secrets and an old amulet from a place he wants to forget.
You've gained 1 x Relic of the Fourth City
You've gained 25 x Whispered Secret
Magnanimous is increasing

Take him home and squeeze him for secrets

Madmen know the choicest truths.
Shadowy challenge, straightforward at 15

Rewards spoiler (unknown)

'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)

Reward spoiler

You press your own ear to its slimy trunk, and learn…

It's heard interesting things about the target of your investigations.
Watchful increase
Investigating… Increase (at least 12 change points)

Failure spoiler

You find nothing.

Does it even exist?
Watchful increase

Find it. Its secrets must be worth hearing

It won't be easy to track down…
Unlocked with Watchful 20
(Watchful challenge)

Reward spoiler

missing text
Watchful increase
Gain: 20 x Whispered Secret
Gain: 10 x Cryptic Clue

Failure spoiler

You find nothing.

Does it even exist?
Watchful increase

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)

Reward spoiler

You press your own ear to its slimy bark, and learn…

It's heard interesting things about the target of your hunt.
Watchful increase
Seeking… increase (12 change points)

Failure spoiler

You find nothing.

Does it even exist?
Watchful increase

A voice from a well

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.

Reward spoiler

You reel away, hands over your ears

The things it said! The things it said!… You'll dream about those things, you're sure. Although it did tell you things you wouldn't learn elsewhere. Perhaps one day, if you're feeling brave or foolish, you'll return.
Watchful increase
Nightmares increase large
Gain: 1 x Appalling Secret

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

Reward spoiler

You reel away, hands over your ears

The things it said! The things it said!… You'll dream about those things, you're sure. Although it did tell you things you wouldn't learn elsewhere. The tall man's daughters. The city of granite. The drowning. Perhaps one day, if you're feeling brave or foolish, you'll return.
Watchful increase
Nightmares increase large
Gain: 2 x Appalling Secret

A Hearty Meal

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.

Scraps from the table

Enjoy leftovers from the chef's kitchens. [This will heal some wounds.]

Rewards spoiler

…delicious.

Leftovers they may be, but even these leftovers are marvellously tasty; and marvellously restorative. You relax in a happy glow of post-prandial well-being.
Wounds decrease
Unaccountably Peckish decrease

A sumptuous repast!

If you're very lucky, the chef will deign to cook for you himself. [This will heal all wounds.]

Requires 3 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.

An afternoon of good deeds?

Sometimes, opportunities for virtue arise.

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. But modesty is chief among your virtues. You'll say nothing to anyone.

Rewards spoiler

Your name is good

Your moral deeds will ensure your reputation undergoes improvement.
Scandal decrease (probably 2 change points)
Suspicion decrease (2 change points)

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.
Unlocks: Subtle 3

Rewards spoiler

Your name is praised!

Your moral deeds will ensure your reputation undergoes considerable improvement!
Scandal decrease (probably 4 change points)
Gain 1 x Confident Smile
Suspicion decrease (1 change point)

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.
Unlocks: Ruthless 5

Rewards spoiler

Your name is murmured disapprovingly

What did you really gain from that? A little jade? A little favour with devils? Possibly. But it was marvellous fun.
Connected: Hell is increasing…
You now have 1 x Confident Smile
Ruthless is increasing… (
Scandal is increasing… (1-2 change points)
You now have 10 x Jade Fragment

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.]

Requires 7 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.

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Pass the Cat: a wriggling delivery

The game of Pass the Cat has grown fashionable lately, despite the Duchess' displeasure. Someone has selected you as > the next link in the unwrapping chain.

Accept the delivery

'Sign for it? Why do you want me to sign for it?'

Rewards spoiler

Muffled sounds

Is it trying to eat its way out of the box? That's a little worrying.
You now have 1 x A Boxed Cat?

An elaborate strategy

Problems with Scandal? Perhaps you can use this as a diversion. But it might rebound on you…
(Persuasive challenge)

Rewards spoiler

Not quite what they expected

A certain Dauntless Temperance Campaigner has been leading the campaign against you. You label the box 'TEAPOT' and have it posted to a church jumble sale, marked with her return address. A wealthy shroomyard owner is unfortunate enough to open the box. The enraged feline within does significant damage to his hairline before his Exceptional Hat devours it. Public opinion shifts against the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner, and your reputation recovers a little.
Scandal decrease
Persuasive increase

A day at the races

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.

Rewards spoiler

A second-hand pleasure

It's not like being there, but it's an entertaining read. Winners, losers, betrayals, wolf attacks, race-fixing scandals, and a wonderfully libellous gossip column compiled by 'Tawdry'. The correspondents of the Post have a lyrical enthusiasm that makes the Knife-and-Candle results look almost dry by comparison. You can learn a great deal by reading war stories.

Dangerous is increasing
Shadowy is increasing…

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; straightforward at 76

Reward spoiler

A moment in the sun

Your letter is a masterpiece of Olympian invective. Five papers publish it. Select quotations are repeated from the pulpit. A Spittle-Flecked Busybody invites you to tea. A satirical cartoonist depicts you as a gigantic cloud labelled 'Humourless Old Misery'.

Persuasive increase
Connected: Society increase (5 change points)
Austere increase OR Austere hasn't changed, because it's higher than 5
Connected: The Church increase (10 change points)
Connected: Bohemian decrease (1-7 change points)
Connected: The Docks decrease

Failure spoiler

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.]

Requires 3 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.

A commotion in the Square of Lofty Words

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?

The gift of Fate

Are you prepared to contribute your own Fate to another's destiny? [Gives another player a Box of Ten Delights, containing eleven Fate. Names in the Fifth City aren't always simple.]

Requires 11 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.

I myself am my only true friend!

Unlocks: Hedonist 5
Go on. Spoil yourself.

Rewards spoiler

A little therapeutic preening

You'd forgotten how magnificent you really are. How fortunate the world is, that you occupy it so very attractively. Lucky old world.
Hedonist decrease
Gain: 1 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
Gain: 1 x Sudden Insight
Gain: 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson
Gain: 1 x Confident Smile

The gift of a big bag of dead rodents

Unlocks: 100 x Rat on a String
What? Some people like a bit of rat.

Rewards spoiler

An odorous donation

There you go! Perhaps they'll even like it. It is a lot of rats, after all.
Popup appears so you can give these to a person on your list
Lose: 100 x Rat on a String

The gift of admiration

Unlocks: 2 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note, 2 x Sudden Insight, 2 x Hard-Earned Lesson, 2 x Confident Smile
Let your devotion be recognised! [This will sacrifice some of your Second Chances, transferring them to a friend.]

Rewards spoiler

It's done

True friendship. Like gold. But tastier.
lose 2 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
lose 2 x Confident Smile
lose 2 x Sudden Insight
lose 2 x Hard-Earned Lesson

The gift of a great Fate

True affection sometimes permits tremendous sacrifice. [Gives another player one Box of a Hundred Wonders, containing a hundred and one Fate.]

Requires 101 Fate

Fate-locked content must not be placed on the wiki, per the developers.

The gift of jewels

Unlocks: 3 x Sapphire , 3 x Venom-ruby , 3 x Diamond
Shiny, portable, and delicious in soup. Ruby soup.

Rewards spoiler

Mr Wines is holding a sale!

Mr Wines, the Master who deals in drinkables, is throwing open his cellars. Not personally, of course. His servant Jervaise is overseeing the matter. What wonders lie within?

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.
Unlocks: 1000 x Rostygold

Rewards spoiler

A bargain made

The deal is struck. What are you going to do with all that wine? Open a public house? Sponsor a dozen poets?

Gain: 750 Greyfields 1879
Lose: 1000 x Rostygold
Hedonist increase

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.
Unlocks: 200 x Jade Fragment
(A matter of luck: it could go either way)

Rewards spoiler

A dusty bottle of fine wine

The box contains a rare old wine. Huzzah! Something to be saved for a special occasion, or when the world really gets to be too much.
Gain: 1 x Greyfields 1868 First Sporing
Lose: 200 x Jade Fragment

Failure spoiler

A sinister black bottle of absinthe

The box contains a bottle of Black Wings absinthe. The roiling black liquid will take the pain away, however briefly.
Gain: 1 x Black Wings Absinthe
Lose: 200 x Jade Fragment

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.

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The Mob

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.

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.

Reward spoiler

You call that gratitude?

The Constables don't seem as pleased as they might. They slip you a couple of Whispered Secrets, fix their helmets more firmly and march off to deal with the mob. Hmph. So it's cold, it's dank, and they have to deal with a baying vigilante mob armed with bricks and self-righteousness. But it's a matter of justice! Isn't it?
Gain: 2 x Whispered secrets
Connected: The Constables increases

Bricks and sticks

Pick up your stick and join the bloodthirsty mob armed with bricks and clubs.
(Dangerous challenge; straightforward at 21)

Reward spoiler

Her heels twist in the night breeze

She led you a merry chase through cramped alleys and some of the mob are missing an ear or a finger, but the mob won out, and you were instrumental in subduing the murderess before her hanging. The neddy men nod soberly at you and slip you a handful of rostygold slivers.

Perhaps being hung will have a calming influence on the murderess. Perhaps they'll have to cut her down and ship her off to the tomb-colonies across the Unterzee. Either way, you've been paid, and that's the important thing.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 12 x Rostygold
Ruthless increase

Refuse

She may be a murderess, but if so, let it be proven in fair trial!
(Persuasive challenge; low-risk at 24, straightforward at 25)

Reward spoiler

'Are we barbarians? Are we foreigners?'

You recognise many of the faces in the mob. You scold and plead and tease until those faces begin to blush. You invoke the laws of lost Britain and the universal decencies to which all are entitled. Those at the edge of the mob drop their bricks covertly on the ground, and slink away, one by one. The neddy men slope off, snarling. The mood of growing serenity is broken only by a distant shriek from the alleys as the murderess punctures another victim.
Persuasive increase
Subtle increase
Magnanimous increase (to 5)
Connected: The Church increase

An elderly lady has hailed the hansom cab you wanted!

The poor old soul is shivering in the cold. But you're in a hurry.

Unlocks: Magnanimous 1, Ruthless 1

Be Ruthless. Shove her aside.

You've no time to waste on this nonsense.

Rewards spoiler

Into the gutter!

The gutter is thick with rotting cabbage-leaves and sludgy black water. She frantically hauls her skirts up round her skinny calves. You stifle a chortle as you swing athletically into the cab. Off you go!
Ruthless increase (1 change point)
Magnanimous decrease (at least 4 change points)
Dangerous increase
Gain 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson

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.

Rewards spoiler

A gummy smile and a 'thank you, my dear'

She hoists herself into the cab. She's quite spry, actually. Have you been bilked? Still, she is old. And it is cold. The cab rattles off into the darkness.
Ruthless decrease
Magnanimous increase (unless it's too high, the case at 5!)
Persuasive increase

You're a complicated person…

Let her have the cab. Pick her pocket on the way past.
Shadowy challenge, straightforward at 25

Rewards spoiler

A gummy smile and a 'thank you, my dear'

She hoists herself into the cab. She's quite spry, actually. Have you been bilked? Never mind. She is old. And it is cold. And you've pocketed a string of cheap moon-pearls. The cab rattles off into the darkness.
Shadowy increase
Ruthless increase (unless it's too high, the case at 5!)
Magnanimous increase (unless it's too high, the case at 5!)
Subtle increase (unless it's too high, the case at 5!)
Gain: 20 x Moon-pearl

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?

Rewards spoiler

A face in the crowd

Whatever the situation, it pays to keep quiet and out of sight.
Subtle increase unless higher than 5
Shadowy increase

The academic

Alone with a book, even in a crowd.

Rewards Spoiler

Another sort of Sir

Let them stare. You know things. Secret, awful things. Things that make their little lives meaningless.
Austere increase unless higher than 5
Watchful increase

The fist-fighter

Always looking for the next victory.

Rewards spoiler

Who will fight me?

There's nobody left here who will fight you. Time to move on to further glories.
Daring increase unless higher than 5
Dangerous increase

The drunk, alas

Sometimes it all gets a little much.

Rewards Spoiler

One more for the road

You'll be fine again by morning. Fresh as a daisy. And troubles will be forgotten.
Hedonist increase unless higher than 5
Persuasive increase

Neighbourhood watch

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.
Unlocks: Persuasive less 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)

Rewards spoiler

Watchful increases
Gain: 24 x Glim
Steadfast increases

Failure spoiler

A needle in a haystack

It's hopeless. Everyone on Moloch Street looks like they're up to something illegal. How are you supposed to pick out the person responsible for this specific crime?
Watchful increases

Organise an inside job

If you can win the residents' trust, you'll be in the perfect place to pull a heist…
(Persuasive challenge)

Rewards spoiler

Persuasive increases.
Connected: Urchins increases.
Gain: 24 x Jade Fragment
Subtle increases.

A jewel-thief needs an accomplice

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.

Get the jewel-thief to stand guard while you sneak in.

You prefer to do this kind of work alone.
(Shadowy] challenge: straightforward by at least 15)

Rewards spoiler

The lady is presently engaged

This is so easy it's demeaning. Judging by the sighs emanating from the next room, the young heiress is occupied. You pick the necklace from a pile of discarded corsetry and shimmy back down the drainpipe. In a smoky gin house, you split the take with your accomplice and part on good terms.
Shadowy increase
You've gained 24 x Glim.
Connected: Criminals increased.

Failure spoiler

Caught in the act

You are rifling through the lady's dressing table when the door bursts open. You are suddenly face to face with a gentleman clad only in his long-johns, gripping a long-stemmed mushroom between his teeth. There is a long moment of mutual surprise.

You recover yourself and leap for the window. The man hesitates, reluctant to expose the public to his underwear. An altruist, then. His options limited, he throws his mushroom after you.

You have some choice criticisms for your accomplice, afterwards. He departs chastened and empty-handed. You produce the mushroom from a pocket. At least you’ll eat.
Shadowy increase

Stand lookout while the jewel-thief slips inside

He's the expert. Your efforts are better spent making sure there are no complications.
(Watchful challenge:straightforward by at least 19)

Rewards spoiler

A cunning disguise and a foul smell save the day

What's taking him so long? Footsteps approach. A young man carrying a bouquet of mushrooms springs up the steps to the heiress' door. Think fast! You interrupt him in the guise of a consumptive veteran, spinning a lengthy and distracting tale of woe. So convincing is your performance and so pungent the alley-reek you rubbed into your clothes that the young man presses a coin into your hand to get rid of you.

You laugh about it with the jewel thief afterwards in a smoky gin house. You toast your mutual success and part on good terms.
Shadowy increase
You've gained 1 x Surface Currency.
You've gained 15 x Glim.
Connected: Criminals increased.

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?
Requires Seduction: Honey-sipping heiress 1.

Rewards spoiler

A polite deacon needs discreet work

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.
(Persuasive challenge; modest at 9)

Rewards spoiler

'…and they buried her alive!'

The courier is not long out of the urchin-gangs. She's bound to be superstitious. You get chatting to her at what might be charitably called a pie stand. You talk about devils and souls. You fabricate the tale of a burner of holy books being buried alive. Your audience is aghast! She presses her bag into your hands and runs for it.

The Polite Deacon is delighted with your work, although he's far too polite to ask you how you obtained the material. He presents you with some church candles and his thanks.
Persuasive increase
Connected: the Church increase
Gain: 24 x Foxfire Candle Stub

Steal the books

The books burn later today. Can you pilfer them in time?
(Shadowy challenge; modest at 8)

Rewards spoiler

Light and shadow

Despite the concerns of the Church, these particular books don't merit the Ministry's full security arrangements. The courier is green, barely more than an urchin. You have no difficulty in shadowing her steps. When she stops to buy something that might be identified as a pie, you pilfer the books.

The Polite Deacon is delighted. When he hands you your payment of candles, you can tell he's aching to make a joke about light and shadow. He's too polite, though.
Shadowy increase
Connected: the Church increase
Gain: 24 x Foxfire Candle Stub

Avenge a struggling artist's broken heart

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.
(Dangerous challenge; modest at 9)

Rewards spoiler

The colour is true

You push through the audience. Their laughter stills. The heartbreaker's last quip falls like a stone into a well. Your knife flashes - you give him a mark to remind him of his betrayal and leave with your blade darkened. The struggling artist adds the blood to his palette and grins. 'The heart's own colour,' he whispers as his brush thrashes across the canvas. The painting is snapped up by a surface collector, and the artist grants you a cut of the proceeds.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 24 x Surface Currency

Failure spoiler

He's not the problem. His friends are.

One of them, a scarred docker, sees you coming. As you close on the rake, a meaty hand grabs your shoulder. You are heaved back. You floor the docker with a pair of swift blows, but in the scuffle your target flees. You have to return to the struggling artist empty-handed. The painting is never finished.
Dangerous increase

Blood is blood

No need for a confrontation. He just needs some blood. Yours will do.
(Persuasive challenge; straightforward at 20)

Reward spoiler

You must suffer for art

You give the struggling artist a cup of your own blood and a satisfying tale of revenge. He finishes the work quickly, but seems disappointed. 'It hasn't the quality I'd hoped,' he tells you. But artists are their own worst critics. A surface collector snaps the painting up regardless, and the artist grants you part of the proceeds.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 10 x Surface Currency
Wounds increase
Subtle increase

A presumptuous little opportunity

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

Rewards spoiler

A hired cart and a careful ride home

Watch those cobblestones.
Gain: 240 x Morelways 1872
Lose: 1000 x Greyfields 1882

An alarming amount of Strangling Willow Absinthe

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. This storylet will cost you 2 actions!

Reward spoiler (old)

An uneasy ride home

The Strangling Willow Absinthe is subdued, but not exactly quiescent. Make haste to the cellar!
80 x Strangling Willow Absinthe
lose 400 x Morelways 1872

Reward spoiler (new)

An uneasy ride home

The Strangling Willow Absinthe is subdued, but not exactly quiescent. Make haste to the cellar!
96 x Strangling Willow Absinthe
lose 400 x Morelways 1872

Perhap you're interested in an exceptional vintage?

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. This storylet will cost you 3 actions!

Reward spoiler (old)

The blood of the grape

Did these grapes grow on the sunlit surface of the Earth? Or somewhere below?
Gain: 20 x Broken Giant 1844
Lose: 5000 x Greyfields 1879

An improbable exchange

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. This storylet will cost you 3 actions!

Reward spoiler (Old)

An eye-watering price

To say nothing of nose-bleeding, stomach-churning and ear-piercing. Servant after servant troops past, carrying your precious bottles into the depths of the shop. Finally the Portly Sommelier hands over your bottle, well padded in straw and paper. You uncork it, very cautiously. Your first thought is that it's certainly something unusual. Your second thought is 'recork it, quick!'
Gain: 1 x Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise
Lose: 5 x Cellar of Wine

Reward spoiler (New)

An eye-watering price

To say nothing of nose-bleeding, stomach-churning and ear-piercing. Servant after servant troops past, carrying your precious bottles into the depths of the shop. Finally the Portly Sommelier hands over your bottle, well padded in straw and paper. You uncork it, very cautiously. Your first thought is that it's certainly something unusual. Your second thought is 'recork it, quick!'
The Portly Sommelier is watching you strangely. 'Here,' he says, 'lagniappe.' He drops a little satin bag into your hand.
Gain: 1 x Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise
Gain: 30 x First City Coin
Lose: 5 x Cellar of Wine

The Relickers cards have their own page.

A Sporting Sort

Shroom-hopping. Weasel Fights. Spider Pits. The opportunities for a sporting sort are without number in London.

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.
Unlocked with 50 x Deep Amber
A matter of luck: it could go either way.

Lucky spoiler

Never in doubt

The Turkish Girl is away at the first corner, and lopes to an easy victory. The Rubbery Racer has malice in his yellow eyes, but doesn't get close enough to enact his presumably terrible schemes. Your bookmaker's look would grace a portion of chips.

Gain: 150 x Deep Amber

Unlucky spoiler

It's always the Rubbery

It's always the Rubbery Racer. He's the nemesis of the Turkish Girl. This time he kicked at her ankles on a tricky giant morel turn. The villain!
You were unlucky. Better luck next time…
Lose: 50 x Deep Amber

Making a small fortune

Whether you're competing or gambling, London has it all. Perhaps one of your Surface friends is a sporting sort?
A matter of luck: it could go either way.

lucky spoiler

unknown

unlucky spoiler

unknown

Wanted: Reminders of Brighter Days

You scan the classified advertisements at the rear of the Gazette. Many are offering the sale of unlikely contraptions. But a good number are people looking for flowers or songbirds or pictures of the sky.

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?

Reward spoiler

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.]
unlocked with Incendiary Gossip 25

Lucky spoiler

A nice little chat

Professional gossips like to talk. This one gives you what you paid for over a mug at Caligula's Coffee House. And then he keeps going. You take notes under the table as you can. Splendid!
You were fortunate!
You've lost 25 x Incendiary Gossip
1 x Blackmail Material
1 x An Identity Uncovered!

Unlucky spoiler

The letter of the contract

The blackmail material is a little sparser than promised, but perfectly usable for all that. Your poor target awaits your wrath!
You were unlucky. Better luck next time.
You've lost 25 x Incendiary Gossip
1 x Blackmail Material

On Matters of Love

Option 1: Platonic affection

One's decorum must not be disrupted by romance. One must have priorities. Platonic priorities.

Reward spoiler (This is a social action and you will need to choose a contact on your network.)

Platonic affection

One's decorum must not be disrupted by romance. One must have priorities. Platonic priorities.

That Loving Feeling Choose a friend on Facebook, or follower/followee on Twitter to invite to join you in this.

Choose a contact from the drop-down menu

Choose friend, and they can visit this link to descend to Fallen London and start playing Echo Bazaar: personal link

Do you want to send them an automated message?
_{(untick the box if you just want to email them the link on your own)}

[ ] Post this message on … :
"… has always loved you. They cannot bear to be parted from you. …"

Option 2: It was a complex affair

Breathless embraces in doorways. Screaming arguments in Paris. Love is brightest when it transcends limitations.

another invite

Option 3: Passions without restraint

Langorous evenings that turned into mornings. Kisses stolen in church. The sating of unusual hungers.

Reward spoiler (This is a social action and you will need to choose a contact on your network.)

Passions without restraint

Langorous evenings that turned into mornings. Kisses stolen in church. The sating of unusual hungers.

That Loving Feeling Choose a friend on Facebook, or follower/followee on Twitter to invite to join you in this.

Choose a contact from the drop-down menu.

Choose friend, and they can visit this link to descend to Fallen London and start playing Echo Bazaar: personal link

Do you want to send them an automated message?
_{(untick the box if you just want to email them the link on your own)}

[ ] Post this message on … :
"… has always loved you. They cannot bear to be parted from you. "

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