Shadowy Cards

These Opportunity Cards will not appear unless your Shadowy quality reaches a certain level. They generally challenge the Shadowy quality but some have options which test other Qualities. The links below will jump to the section of the page describing Cards which unlock at that level of Shadowy Quality.

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	Cards that appear during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose

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Cards which unlock after 90

Don't you know her?

Yes, you know that one. She's up to her neck in the Great Game.
Unlocked with Shadowy 110, a fine piece in the Game 1

Where's she going?

She's watching out for a tail. That won't stop you, of course.
Unlocked with Connected: The Great Game 10
(Shadowy challenge, straightforward at 125)

Reward spoiler

Into Wilmot's End

Your blonde quarry heads out towards Tyrant's Gardens. Hardly surprising; the place is full of spies and informers.

But what's this? She parts some bushes and heads into an abandoned section of the gardens. It's less abandoned than you thought. This is Wilmot's End! Whispered about in the stories of the Great Game. It's where the serious business of London's spycraft happens, if the stories are to be believed.

Wilmot's End is a fascinating place. It's studded with monuments and statuary from outside London. Gifts from foreign powers, for the most part. Here is a bulb-tipped brass minaret from the Iron Republic. There is a rainbow glass statue of a horseman from the Presbyterate.

Shadowy Increase
You've moved to a new area: Wilmot's End
An occurrence! Your 'Route: Wilmot's End' Quality is now 1!

Maybe she's in the market for some secrets.

When she rests for a moment on a bench, you join her.
Unlocked with 5 x Intriguing Gossip

Reward spoiler

A trade.

A discreet approach. An oblique conversation. You dangle sordid secrets. She allows herself a smile. As she departs she says: 'We should meet like this more often. But I suppose all our paths cross in the End, don't they?' Her diction is excellent; she clearly capitalised the 'E'.
She leaves a revolutionary pamphlet behind on the bench. What's that inside?
Lose: 5x Intriguing Gossip
Gain: 3 x Compromising Document
Gain: 1 x Proscribed Material
Connected: The Great Game increase
Gain: 1x Incendiary Gossip

Revisit the Theosophisticals

Madame Petrovsky has written a new pamphlet, Practical Pantheism. This presents several opportunities to make money.
[Unlocked with Shadowy 105]

Work the crowd

Madame Petrovsky is giving a talk based on her new book. Plenty of rich people who won't be paying attention to their purses.

_ challenge

Success spoiler

A successful evening

You are a seasoned professional. It's child's play for you to relieve most of these people of most of their money. The interesting part, though, is the talk itself. Madame Petrovsky speaks persuasively of the lands across the Unterzee, the sights to be seen, the strange peoples and beliefs. At the end, she turns to you. 'And how are your plans coming along?' she asks.

Shadowy increase
50 x Jade Fragment
Gain: 50 x Moon-pearl

Failure spoiler

Discovered

Oh dear. You've grown complacent, it appears. You're busy lifting a lady's purse when Madame Petrovsky welcomes you to the talk by name. You drop the purse, all eyes on you.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Steal a consignment

People will buy the pamphlets from you if they are a few pence cheaper.

_ challenge

Success spoiler

Worth the trouble

You steal several packing-crates full of copies of Practical Pantheism and sell them on, but you do keep one to read. It's mostly rubbish, but there are a few fascinating anecdotes about peoples that live far across the Unterzee. Some believe in blue gods; others worship rare lichens. Does it make you want to see these lands for yourself?

Shadowy increase
70 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
1 x Mystery of the Elder Continent

Failure spoiler

Wrongly marked

You steal several packing-crates full of copies of what you think is Practical Pantheism. It's only after you've sold them on and the Constables are at your door that you find out you've been selling copies of Practical Corsetry.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Make your own

Why risk stealing actual pamphlets when stealing names and ideas is so much easier?

_ challenge

Success spoiler

A tidy profit

You type up a thesis on the polytheistic religions of the peoples that live across the Unterzee. You invent many salacious details and steal the rest from articles and monographs and penny-dreadfuls. Your pamphlets sell out, of course, but some of the buyers ask you troubling questions. 'Do you have a ship? Are you going expeditioning soon?'

Shadowy increase
65 x Jade Fragment
65 x Moon-pearl

Failure spoiler

An inky disaster

You sit down to type up an account of the religious beliefs of Polythreme - stolen piecemeal from articles and monographs and the like, of course. But inspiration eludes you, and no one is interested in the final thin leaflet. Perhaps it is time you took to the zee, instead of just pretending?

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

The Phantom of the Antimacassar [Standard]

You hear a lot of things from your contacts in the theatrical world, but this is a new one…
Unlocked with Shadowy 105

Take advantage

Use the rumour to cover up a little theft of your own.

_ Shadowy challenge level 110 Broad difficulty

Success spoiler

A neat little haul

You whisper in a few ears, encouraging…

Gain: 40 x Moon-pearl
Gain: 70 x Glim
Shadowy increase

Failure spoiler

Too clever for you

You encourage the spread of these…

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Spread the rumour

Theatre people love to believe this stuff. Why not use this to rob somewhere a little grander? Like the Imperial Opera House?

_ Shadowy challenge level 120 Broad difficulty

Success spoiler

A better class of swag

You're telling stories about the…

Gain: 100 x Glim
Gain: 20 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Shadowy increase

Failure spoiler

Unmasked

You're telling stories about the…

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Become the Phantom!

Hide in plain sight to pull off a brilliant theft!

_ Shadowy challenge level 130 Broad difficulty

Success spoiler

Panic in the theatre

The Zailor's Wife is playing tonight…

Shadowy increase
Gain: 5 x Flawed Diamond
Gain: 60 x Moon-pearl

Rare Success spoiler

Screaming panic

The Zailor's Wife is playing tonight…

Shadowy increase
Gain: 1 x Aeolian Scream

Failure spoiler

Chaos in the theatre

You sneak into the wings during…

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Reeducating Lyme [Standard]

Jasper and Frank would 'appreciate' it if you gave their nephew Lyme a little more 'schooling'.
Unlocked with Shadowy 105

Something simple

Practise some easy sleight of hand.

_ Shadowy challenge Level 110 Broad

Success spoiler

A nice little haul

Picking pockets is really beneath…

Gain: 10 x Moon-pearl
Gain: 50 x Jade Fragment
Gain: 50 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
Shadowy increase

Failure spoiler

Unsatisfactory progress

You set Lyme to practising some…

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Nothing too complicated

How about some light espionage?

_ Shadowy challenge Level 120 Broad

Success spoiler

Nicely done

You take Lyme with you to Wilmot's…

Gain: 2 x Compromising Document
Gain: 10 x Cryptic Clue
Shadowy increase

Failure spoiler

Clumsy

You take Lyme to Wilmot's End and…

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

A real challenge

Teach him to steal secrets from a cat.

_ Shadowy challenge Level 130 Broad

Success spoiler

The art of cat-catching…

Everybody knows the real problem…

Gain: 2 x Incendiary Gossip
2 x Appalling Secret
Shadowy increase

Rare Success spoiler

Secrets already prepared

Lyme doesn't need to catch a cat…

Shadowy increase
Gain: 5 x Incendiary Gossip

Failure spoiler

Slippery customers

Lyme tries his best at building a…

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

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Cards that appear during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose

Seasonal mischief

The Feast of the Exceptional Rose brings lovers together. It also brings opportunities for scheming and larceny… and for reviewing one's own romantic arrangements.
Unlocks: Shadowy 5

Disrupt an inconvenient romance

You have been offered a little reward, should you be able to hasten the demise of a certain ill-advised liaison…
(Persuasive Challenge)

Reward spoiler

That had to hurt.

Luckily, you are acquainted with the feminine half of the couple in question, and you know where they will be dining this Feast. You wander over to their table and feign amazement. 'Why, it's you, Ermintrude!' Before long, you are regaling the poor man with all manner of shocking tales about his beloved's shocking past. The best of it is, you know much of it to be true. She will never talk her way out of this one.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 30 x Whispered Secret

Rid yourself of that irritating suitor

Someone won't leave you alone. Any charm they once had for you is quite, quite gone.
(A matter of luck: it could go either way.)

Reward spoiler

You let them down gently

Congratulations. You managed that very well. You blamed yourself; you assured them that they had done nothing, it is simply that you are such a troubled soul. Essentially, you succeeded in ridding yourself of any obligations whatsover towards them, whilst retaining their eternal devotion. You are clever.
Persuasive increase
Admired increase

Take advantage of others' distraction

They're busy gazing into each other's eyes. Serve them right if their pockets got picked.
(Shadowy challenge)

Reward spoiler

Easy as pie

These idiot lovebirds don't know what day of the week it is, let alone where their purses are. While they bill and coo in a quite revolting fashion, you relieve them of the latter burden.

That's a lot of deep amber they're carrying. Odd.
Shadowy challenge
Gain: 40 x Deep Amber

Reward spoiler

Wounds increase (2 change points?)

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