Recalling the Surface: Watchful

This is one of four related storylets, each invoving remembering people you knew from the surface and tied to one of the major qualities.

Levels of the Recalling the Surface: Watchful quality:

1. -
2. - Vengeful Conviction
3. - A Thirst for Secrets
4. - Only Memories

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Surface Ties: the Seeker

There are whispers behind your back. Someone has been asking impertinent questions about your activities. Someone from the surface! Who is it?
Unlocks: Watchful 12

A client you helped in the past

You used to find things, and sometimes people. It was sometimes legal, sometimes not. A previous client wants more work from you in the Neath. Do you even do that sort of thing any more?

Reward spoiler

Sometimes you remember your old clients

Victims of kidnapping and blackmail, the occasional missing pet of the gentry, eloped daughters: you found them all. Still, the Neath is a very long way to come to find a detective, even one as good as you, isn't it?
A twist in your tale! You are now Recalling the Surface: Watchful.

A villain who you helped to catch

You worked for the law, and helped to catch some notorious criminals. One of them is looking for revenge.

Reward spoiler (unknown)

Someone who you sent looking for secret knowledge

There are things that must be known! Finally, your plans are coming to fruition

Reward spoiler

You wait for that happy day

One day, those secrets will be yours! None can hide from your gaze!
A twist in your tale! You are now Recalling the Surface: Watchful. Immediately to level 3.

Surface Ties: the Seeker

A former client from your days on the surface needs your help: her brother has taken their inheritance and disappeared to the Neath. He must be found before he spends it all on mushroom wine and prisoner's honey.
Unlocked with Recalling the Surface: Watchful 1

Send her away

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Reward spoiler

Solve the case brilliantly, as usual

You are pleased to see your client once more. This task will be nothing out of the ordinary for you.

Reward spoiler

Hardly an effort

Trails are followed, clues are analysed and witnesses are questioned. You track your client's brother to a honey den in Veilgarden within hours of taking the case. You leave your client upbraiding her feckless sibling. It seems likely that the pair will stay in the Neath. That must be the last of your surface clients.
Watchful increase
Recalling the Surface: Watchful has increased to 4 - Only Memories

Surface Ties: the Seeker

A criminal who you helped bring to justice has escaped a surface prison, and come looking for revenge in the Neath!
Unlocked with Recalling the Surface: Watchful 2

You don't do that sort of thing anymore

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Reward spoiler

Foil them once more!

You are a stalwart detective in the endless fight against the criminal element! You shall see this villain hanged! As often as is necessary!

Reward spoiler

Almost too easy

When the criminal seeking revenge on you makes their move, there are three sturdy Constables waiting for them in the shadowy warehouse that was supposed to contain you. Will these fellows ever learn to think originally? Probably not. You don't think further criminals of this sort will be chasing you.
Watchful increase
Recalling the Surface: Watchful has increased to 4 - Only Memories
Connected: The Constables increase

Surface Ties: the Seeker

Long ago on the surface, you sent someone out looking for secret knowledge. They have found you at last!
[Unlocked with Recalling the Surface: Watchful 3]

Tell me! Tell me everything!

Your mind hungers for every last scrap of hidden knowledge.

Reward spoiler

It burns in your dreams!

There are few secrets of this magnitude… your mind can barely contain them! You have stripped the surface of its last wretched secrets. But the Neath lies before you now.

Watchful increase
Recalling the Surface: Watchful has increased to 4 - Only Memories
Gain: 3 x Appalling Secret
Nightmares increase

No! I will not hear it!

You have changed since your days on the surface. Secret knowledge invites madness, and you would prefer to stay sane.

Reward spoiler

Recalling the Surface: Watchful has increased to 4 - Memories Never Forgotten!
Nightmares decrease

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