Tournament Of Lilies

One can enter the Tournament of Lilies through receiving a certain opportunity card, and then visiting one's lodgings. Challenge your rivals who own a suitable plant and are at the same point in the tournament as you. A stake is risked each time you challenge or are challenged. All challenges are decided on the Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality.

Levels of Competing in a Tournament of Lilies

1. - Seeking a Contest of Strength
2. - Seeking a Contest of Cunning
3. - Seeking a Contest of Blood
4. - Seeking a Contest of Mysteries
5. - Seeking a Contest of Voices
6. - Seeking a Contest of Beauty
7. - A Cryptobotanical Champion - A prize awaits you in your lodgings

The Noted Orchid-Grower has a Secret

Something interesting lurks behind those green eyes.
Unlocks: attending to the needs of a singular plant 10

Pay her a visit, and take a bottle

The lady can be indiscreet after a libation.
(unlocked with Morelways 1872 x 1)

Reward spoiler

The tournament of lilies

ou sit with the Orchid-Grower in her hothouse. Sweat trickles down the back of your neck. She sips from a glass of chilled wine but doesn't offer you any.

'Well, you didn't hear this from me, but you're not the only one in London with a St. John's lily,' she says. 'They've been growing in cellars and parlours since the Fall. And you know how competitive gardeners are.'

'If you've the green fingers and the spirit, there's a contest. A knock-out tournament with some startling prizes. Held in darkened greenhouses in the dead of night, they say. I know where the next one is, if you fancy your chances. Take a cutting and your stake…'

[Go to your lodgings to enter the Tournament of Lilies. You will need challenge rivals who own a suitable plant and are at the same point in the tournament as you. You risk a stake each time you challenge or are challenged. All challenges are decided on the Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality.]
An occurrence! Your 'Competing in a Tournament of Lilies' Quality is now 1 - Seeking a Contest of Strength!
You've lost 1 x Morelways 1872

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At your Lodgings

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The Tournament of Lilies

The latest obsession of neo-botanical society! What sap-sprayed struggles play out in these darkened greenhouses?
Unlocks: Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 10, Competing in a Tournament of Lilies 1

Challenge a friend to a Contest of Strength

Set your cutting to fierce thorny combat! [Your friend will need to have an Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality at 10+ and to be at the same stage of the Tournament as you.]
Unlocked with Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 10; unlocked with Competing in a Tournament of Lilies 1

Challenge text

Set your cutting to fierce thorny combat! [Your friend will need to have an Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality at 10+ and to be at the same stage of the Tournament as you.]

The green gauntlet is thrown!

Do they have the verdant vigour to respond?

Win text

Your plant has thrashed to thorny victory over the feeble sapling belonging to the other Fallen London Resident!
Competing in a Tournament of Lilies increase

Loss text

Oh no! The green savage belonging to the other Fallen London Resident has smashed your plant to a pulp!
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant decrease

Ask the Noted Orchid-Grower to remind you about the Tournament

How does this work again?

Reward spoiler

Botanical secrets

You sit with the Orchid-Grower in her hothouse. Sweat trickles down the back of your neck. She waves her secateurs at you as she speaks.

'The cultivation of St. John's lily is becoming quite fashionable,' she says. 'They've been growing in cellars and parlours since the Fall. And you know how competitive gardeners are.'

'The contest is between the best gardeners. A knock-out tournament with some startling prizes. Held in darkened greenhouses in the dead of night. I know where the next one is, if you fancy your chances. Take a cutting and your stake…'

[To compete, you will need challenge rivals who own a suitable plant and are at the same point in the tournament as you. You risk a stake each time you challenge or are challenged. All challenges are on the Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality.]
20 x Cryptic Clue gained

Challenge a friend to a Contest of Cunning

Does your plant know the most secrets? [Your friend will need to have an Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality at 10+ and to be at the same stage of the Tournament as you.]
Unlocked with Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 10, Competing in a Tournament of Lilies 2, 10 x Whispered Secret.

Challenge text

Set your cutting to fierce thorny combat! [Your friend will need to have an Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality at 10+ and to be at the same stage of the Tournament as you.]

The challenge is sent!

Is your friend crazy like a foxglove?

Win text

Your plant knows far more than the witless vegetable belonging to that other Fallen London Resident. You are victorious!
150 x Whispered Secret gained
Competing in a Tournament of Lilies increase

Loss text

Oh no! The gnomic shrub belonging to the other Fallen London Resident was too canny! Your plant is beaten! -
10 x Whispered Secret lost
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant decrease (2 change points)
Competing in a Tournament of Lilies decrease (1 level)

Text challengee gets they do not meet requirements

You do not meet the requirements for invitation: You need at least 2 Competing in a Tournament of Lilies, you have 1;You need at least Whispered Secret, you have 0; try again later..

Challenge a friend to a Contest of Blood

Can your plant soak up more wine than your opponent's? [Your friend will need to have an Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality at 10+ and to be at the same stage of the Tournament as you.]
Unlocked with Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 10, Competing in a Tournament of Lilies 3, 10 x Morelways 1872.

Challenge text

The bottles are set out!

Has your friend got the stamen for it?

Win text

Your plant slurped and guzzled to a stupendous victory over the limp weed belonging to someone! You win! - You've lost 10 x Morelways 1872.
An occurrence! Your 'Competing in a Tournament of Lilies' Quality is now 4 - Seeking a Contest of Mysteries!
You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication

Loss text

Oh no! The leafy villain belonging to someone soaked up more wine! Your plant is defeated!
10 x Morelways 1872 lost
Competing in a Tournament of Lilies decrease
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant decrease

Challenge a friend to a Contest of Mysteries

What will your plant do when fed a great secret? [Your friend will need to have an Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality at 10+ and to be at the same stage of the Tournament as you.]
Unlocked with Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 10, Competing in a Tournament of Lilies 4, 1 x Extraordinary Implication.

Challenge text

Your secrets are marshalled!

Does your friend have the will to probe the mind of a vegetable?

Win text

Your plant swallows the secret and lets rip with a scream that shrivels the cutting belonging to someone to ash! You win!
Competing in a Tournament of Lilies has increased to 5 - Seeking a Contest of Voices!
Lose 1 x Extraordinary Implication
Gain 2 x Aeolian Scream

Loss text

Oh no! Your cutting has taken the secret and curled into a tight ball. someone's plant is the victor! - You've lost 1 x Extraordinary Implication .
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant decrease
Competing in a Tournament of Lilies decrease (at least 2 change points)

Challenge a friend to a Contest of Voices

Is your plant in the mood for song? [Your friend will need to have an Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality at 10+ and to be at the same stage of the Tournament as you.]This choice is locked for now.
Unlocked with Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 10, Competing in a Tournament of Lilies 5, 1 x Aeolian Scream.

Challenge text

Let the plants sing!

A most wondrous thing, rarely seen outside dreams. What leafy harmonies!

Challenged recieves this message

someone has challenged your plant to a contest of voices! You risk an Aeolian Scream.

Win text

Your plant sings a lament that brings the shrub belonging to someone to silence. You are victorious! - You've lost 1 x Aeolian Scream (new total 4). You now have 1 x Storm-Threnody. Competing in a Tournament of Lilies has increased to 6 - Seeking a Contest of Beauty!

Loss text

Oh no! Your plant could barely manage a hissing gurgle. It is silenced to shame by the plant belonging to the other Fallen London resident.
You've lost 1 x Aeolian Scream
Competing in a Tournament of Lilies has dropped to 4 - Seeking a Contest of Mysteries!
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant decrease

Challenge a friend to a Contest of Beauty

The final contest! Beauty is the most important virtue. [Your friend will need to have an Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant quality at 10+ and to be at the same stage of the Tournament as you.]This choice is locked for now.
Unlocked with Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant 10, Competing in a Tournament of Lilies 6, 1 x Confident Smile.

Challenge text

The challenge is laid!

Your plant is the prettiest. Obviously.

Win text

Your plant is the most beautiful! You beat someone! Of course, you were never in any doubt. - You've lost 1 x Confident Smile. An occurrence! Your 'Competing in a Tournament of Lilies' Quality is now 7 - A Cryptobotanical Champion - A prize awaits you in your lodgings!

Loss text

Oh no! Your plant has been outshone in beauty! That damnably pretty weed belonging to someone won! - You've lost 1 x Confident Smile (new total 92). Competing in a Tournament of Lilies has dropped to 5 - Seeking a Contest of Voices! Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant is dropping… (4 change points)

A Cryptobotanical Champion!

Your plant is the finest in London! His Amused Lordship visits your lodgings to present a prize of words.
(unlocked with Competing in a Tournament of Lilies 7)

Take your prize

Receive a good word.

Reward spoiler

The good word

His Amused Lordship's grin lights up your parlour like a score of candles.
'Splendid! I shall speak highly of you in certain erudite circles! I shall keep an eye on your career, Sir. We of the Dilmun Club may find the need for a skilled botanist such as yourself, and sooner rather than later.'

An occurrence! Your 'Competing in a Tournament of Lilies' Quality is now 1 - Seeking a Contest of Strength!
1 x Personal Recommendation
2 x Extraordinary Implication
Watchful increased
1 x Cryptobotanical Rosette

Take a different prize

Receive many bad words.

Reward spoiler

The bad words

His Amused Lordship insists on speaking well away from your plant. He looks around carefully before whispering into your ear.

'I know well the price a botanist can pay who travels far from home. This will keep you a little safer when green turns black.'

An occurrence! Your 'Competing in a Tournament of Lilies' Quality is now 1 - Seeking a Contest of Strength!
1 x Book of Hidden Bodies
2 x London Street Sign
Shadowy Increase
1 x Cryptobotanical Rosette

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