Things to do in Spite...

When your Shadowy is 41-50

31-40 51-60

Confound the Constables

The Constables have been paying inconvenient attention to your activities. Perhaps it is time to confuse their efforts.
[Unlocked with Suspicion 1]
[Unlocked with Shadowy 41] (No longer available with Shadowy 56)

A man with a past

You've found the name of the Inspector who is hunting you. In your experience, Inspectors can often be blackmailed.

_ challenge

Success spoiler

'Oh dear, Inspector…'

It's usually one of ring fight gambling, prisoner's honey or the ladies wearing scarlet stockings that the Inspectors can't resist. This time it's the last. Once you know that, it becomes a simple matter to engage in a spot of blackmail. The Inspector is so aghast that not only does he cancel the investigation against you, he allows you your pick of the evidence from a long-forgotten case.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 2 x An Infernal Contract
Gain: 1 x Proscribed Material
Suspicion decrease (2 change points)

Failure spoiler

The distressing virtue of the constabulary

This is simply not done. The Inspector hounding you is a man of simple tastes and modest appetites. He eschews the ring fights, abhors both wine and prisoner's honey and apparently would not know what to do with a lady of the evening if one fell on him. Can the constabulary be trusted with nothing in these times? You may be forced to lie low for a little while.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase (1 change point)

A riskier option: hide in a rookery

The dense slum of a rookery is a good place to hide, to catch something, to be stabbed…

_ challenge

Success spoiler

Rookery predator

No person of means would choose to be here, but needs must go wanting when the Constables call. However, squalid and diseased as it is, your reputation among the underworld sees that you are not overly troubled by the residents. You pass an uncomfortable and malodorous time in the rookery, but the place is at least unsullied by the gentlemen in blue.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion decrease

Failure spoiler

There are worse things than Constables

By the time two days have passed in the rookery, you have been in three savage brawls and a knife fight with a lad too young to shave. You also seem to have picked up a hacking cough. You leave before things get worse: you'll take your chances with the Constables rather than the rookery.

Shadowy increase

Burgle a grand residence

Your exploits as a burglar are becoming impressive. A Stuttering Fence has given you a lead on a bigger prize.
Unlocks: Shadowy 44 (No longer available with Shadowy 59)

Not the silver cutlery, this time

The lady of the house collects antiquities. Tonight, so do you.
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at Shadowy 53)

Reward spoiler

Horse heads in the bag

You prepare extensively for this operation: you bribe the servants, dope the dogs and arrange for a window to be left discreetly unlocked. And you timed your burglary to coincide with a society function. Nobody notices another waiter at the dinner party. The collection is displayed upstairs, and you make quick work of the locked door and glass cabinets. The relics are in your sack and you are three immaculately swept streets away before the alarm is raised. You congratulate yourself on a job well done.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 10 x Relic of the Fourth City

Failure spoiler

'And this is my collection, Lord Clarence…'

You prepare extensively for this operation: you bribe the servants, dope the dogs and arrange for a window to be left discreetly unlocked. And you timed your burglary to coincide with a society function. Nobody notices another waiter at the dinner party. You are picking the lock on an upstairs display cabinet when the lady of the house appears with a guest who appears fascinated by the pieces. You palm your picklock and pretend to be dusting. It fools the distracted aristocrats, but you walk away from the house empty-handed, this time.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Books and papers

No servants are permitted in the attic. An insider tips you off that valuable papers are stored there. [Whether you succeed or fail, this will reduce your Scandal.]
(Shadowy challenge; chancy at 44)

Requires 3 Fate

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Help bring in smuggled tea under cover of darkness

They're not short of darkness in the Neath. They are short of reliable help, though.
Unlocks: Shadowy 45

A good opportunity to earn favour…

Smuggling operations along the river near Spite are the business of the woman they call the Gracious Widow. It might be profitable to earn her attention.
(Shadowy challenge; chancy at 54, modest at 50)

Reward spoiler

Smoothly managed

You muffle the oars of your rowboat and slip out to the barge where your accomplices wait. They hand down crates of tea one by one. There's no sign of the Bazaar's Excisemen, and you're paid well at the end of the night.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 45 x Jade Fragment
Connected: The Orient increase (3 change points)

Failure spoiler

A narrow escape

You muffle the oars of your rowboat and slip out to the barge where your accomplices wait. As they hand down the first crate of tea to you, you hear hushed voices drift across the water, and glimpse a brief sliver of light from an incautiously uncovered lantern. There are Excisemen on the river! You abandon the operation and head hastily back to shore.
Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase
Connected: The Orient decrease

Avoid an unfair tax on jewels

Lamentably, Mr Stones imposes ever higher taxes on the import of jewels. You can help the Gracious Widow's people in their pursuit of free trade.
Unlocked with Shadowy 47

Retrieve 'costume' jewellery

The Gracious Widow works with a travelling troupe of entertainers. They bring costume jewellery into London each time they come. Some of this jewellery, beneath the paint, is really quite valuable.
Unlocked with Connected: The Orient 2
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 56)

Reward spoiler

Everything is in hand

As arranged, you slip backstage while the entertainers are performing, and retrieve the fake jewels. Er, the fake fake jewels. The real fake jewels. Never mind. You leave with the jewels in hand, and return to the smoky cellar where the Widow's man is waiting.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 43 x Jade Fragment
Connected: The Orient increase

Failure spoiler

Whoops…

As arranged, you slip backstage while the entertainers are performing to retrieve the fake jewels. Unfortunately an admirer is waiting there with a bunch of paper flowers. 'Thief!' he shouts, rather excitably.

The funny thing is, you're really not a thief, at least today. For a moment you consider explaining the situation to him, but it's probably best just to dive out through that window over there and avoid any difficult conversations with Constables or Excisemen.
Shadowy increase

Take one of the smaller pieces for yourself

Some stuff must go missing along the way, surely? …surely?
Unlocked with Connected: The Orient 2
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 59)

Reward spoiler

Don't you deserve something special?

As arranged, you slip backstage while the entertainers are performing, and retrieve the fake jewels. Er, the fake fake jewels. The real fake jewels. One of the nicer fake jewels you keep for yourself. No-one says anything. So you've probably got away with it. They pay you, anyway.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 1 x Diamond
Gain: 41 x Jade Fragment
Connected: The Orient increase

Failure spoiler

Not a forgiving crowd

As arranged, you slip backstage while the entertainers are performing, and retrieve the jewels, slipping one into your sleeve. When you return to the smoky cellar where the Widow's contact waits, he looks at you unsmilingly while two henchmen (definitely henchmen: they have that henchman's grip) seize and search you. All the jewellery is retrieved, and you are permitted to leave unharmed, 'for past services'. How did they know? Did they send someone to watch you? Can they smell diamonds?
Shadowy increase
Connected: The Orient decrease

Waylay a weasel-seller

Weasels have become fashionable pets in the city of late: small, clean, fierce and very happy underground. You can find buyers for as many as you can steal.
Unlocks: Shadowy 49

'Weasels! Weasels! Weasels for all!'

The weasel-seller is approaching. You grip your blackjack and wait.
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 59)

Reward spoiler

A brace of fine weasels!

The weasel-seller goes down without a sound. You vanish into the labyrinth of the city streets, a weasel in either hand.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 2 x Lucky Weasel

Rare Sucess

An Araby fighting-weasel!

The weasel-seller goes down without a sound. You come away with a fighting-weasel of Arabic descent: a coat like bronzed velvet, eyes like desert stars, and very, very wriggly.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 1 x Araby Fighting-Weasel

Failure spoiler

Argh!

The weasel-seller turns at the last moment. Your cudgel strikes his shoulder instead. He shouts a command! His cages spring open! You rush into the night, yelling in pain, weasels attached to every part of your anatomy. It takes you painful minutes to detach them all. Although you do hang on to one particularly lucky little fellow.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 1 x Lucky Weasel
Wounds increase

Help bring in peach brandy

The Gracious Widow's people will pay well for the assistance of someone they can trust.
Unlocks: Shadowy 50

Steal a shipment of walking-canes

The brandy is stored in the flasks in the handles of a shipment of bamboo walking-sticks, in a warehouse down near Wolfstack. You'll need to get them out without attracting attention.
Unlocks: Connected: The Orient 5
(Shadowy challenge; straightforward at 59)

Reward spoiler

In and out with little trouble

You wait until the night-watchmen are occupied with tea and gin and dice, crack the lock on the side door and slip out with an armful of walking-sticks. Good work!

Shadowy increase
Gain: 42 x Jade Fragment
Connected: the-widow increase 6 change points

Failure spoiler

They all look the same

You wait until the night-watchmen are occupied with tea and gin and dice, crack the lock on the side door and slip out with an armful of walking-sticks. Unfortunately, although they do have secret compartments, someone else seems to have used these to smuggle tobacco. The Gracious Widow's people are badly upset, as much at the evidence of competition as anything. They seem to think that's your fault too.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Sneak a sip of the brandy

The rumour is, it's made from the Peaches of Immortality. It's a competitor to Hesperidean Cider! Could it really give you eternal youth?
Unlocks: Connected: The Orient 15
(A matter of luck: the odds are against you here.)

Fortunate spoiler

It tastes like fire and mountaintops

You wait until the night-watchmen are occupied with tea and gin and dice, crack the lock on the side door and slip out with an armful of walking-sticks. You twist the handle off one and take a cautious swig of brandy.

It hasn't made you any younger, but it's helped with any wounds you're suffering from. Perhaps it's watered down?
Anyway, your employers don't seem to notice the missing brandy. You're paid the agreed fee.

Gain: 42 x Jade Fragment
Wounds decrease
Connected: the-widow increase

Unfortunate spoiler

It tastes like fire and mountaintops

You wait until the night-watchmen are occupied with tea and gin and dice, crack the lock on the side door and slip out with an armful of walking-sticks. You twist the handle off one and take a cautious swig of brandy.
It hasn't made you any younger, but it has a marvellously restorative effect on your wounds. Perhaps it's watered down?
Unfortunately, your employers are paying attention tonight. They count the canes and come up one short. They demonstrate their displeasure with a savage beating. The virtue of the brandy you stole means the injuries they inflict heal remarkably quickly: but if you had other wounds, there is little virtue left over to help with them.
Connected: The Orient decrease
Suspicion increase
Wounds increase

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