Starveling Cat

Acquired through the storylet below

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Pass the Cat: the Unwrapping!

Unlocks: A Nearly Unwrapped Cat?
A gently rustling box sits on your dining room table. Only one layer remains!

Option 1: Behold the cat

Luck Challenge: either way
You catch your breath. The last layer of paper lies within. What's in the box?

Rewards Spoiler

Black as a spirifer's heart

A velvety black cat struggles free of the wrappings. It blinks at you. 'About time. Well, we move as the game wills. Here -'
It whispers something to you, and the room spins about you. When you steady yourself, it's quite gone.

Rewards:
Lose 1 x A Nearly Unwrapped Cat?
Watchful Increase
Gain 2 x Appalling Secrets

Rare Rewards Spoiler

The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat!

They put it in a box! And it hated that! The Starveling Cat bursts out of the box in an avalanche of shredded brown paper. It leaps at your face, fangs bared. You fight it off frantically, sustaining a series of savage cuts. It drops to the floor and snarls like a tiger. Then it climbs your armoire, claws gouging the varnish, and glares at you. It doesn't move until midnight, when it steals into your pantry and wolfs down an entire joint of beef.
Rewards:
Unaccountably Peckish increase
You now have 1 x Starveling Cat
Lose 1 x A Nearly Unwrapped Cat?
Wounds Increase

Failure Spoiler

Talk to your Starveling Cat

It's not a charming creature. But with its mad yellow eyes, lashing tail and savage hunger, it is a distinctive one.

'Here, puss puss puss.'

The Starveling Cat glares at you. You think it's trying to decide whether you're edible.
Unlocks with: 1 x Starveling Cat

Reward spoiler

OUCH! Damn the thing!

You got incautiously close. The cat sinks its filthy fangs into your
Wounds increase.
Nightmares increase.

'Enough! Someone else can deal with you!

Perhaps you can persuade someone else to take on the ghastly responsibility of looking after the Starveling Cat.
Unlocks with: 1 x Starveling Cat

Reward spoiler

You await their answer

The Starveling Cat watches you, rumbling deep in its throat. Is it plotting your murder? Your impoverishment? Your damnation?
1 x Starveling Cat lost!

Another resident of Fallen London wishes you to look after this deranged and monstrous clot of spitting mangy fur.

Accept

The Starveling Cat has moved into your Lodgings. May God have mercy on our souls.
1 x Starveling Cat gained!

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