Uncovering Secrets Framed In Gold

While most of the Correspondence is in The Forgotten Quarter or at The University there are also some bronze bordered storylet cards related to it. The Correspondence is related to many secrets.

A bewildering salon

Unlocks: a Scholar of the Correspondence 1
The frame is ornate, gilded and carved, one open eye at each corner. The canvas itself is painted jet black. A joke? A mistake? "View of the Constellations (as seen from the Neath)"? It doesn't have a label, but there's a faint chalk mark on the wall. A Correspondence sigil! It says, "Buy."

Buy it

The owner claims that the painting reminds her of a failed long-ago flirtation. "Just something about the texture of the paint." You've heard more preposterous attempts to raise the price, but not often. You can acquire Brilliant Souls by using Infernal items in your inventory.
[Unlocked with 2 x Brilliant Soul]

Rewards spoiler

The eyes follow you

Once the agreement is made, the owner wraps your purchase with brown paper and string. "Don't need the frame staring at people in the street." You get it home and leave it propped in a corner. There will be time enough to decide what to do with it later.

Lose: 2 x Brilliant Soul
You've gained a new quality: Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold at 1.

Steal it

It's not that you can't afford it. It's that purchasing things is beneath your dignity.
challenge

Rewards spoiler

The eyes follow you

The security is not quite a match for you. The frame, however, seems to be watching you all the way home. You have to prop the thing facing the wall to get any sleep afterward.

Shadowy increase
You've gained a new quality: Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold at 1.

Gold frame, black painting

Unlocks: Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold 1
Your all-black painting still sits in the corner of your room. The eyes at each corner of the frame look a little more alert, somehow. What to do with it?

Scrap the canvas, sell the frame

Time to profit by your prize. The canvas is fatally modern, but the frame can be passed off as antique. Sell it for silk.

Rewards spoiler

A little chalk, a little resin

You age the frame a good fifty years. The patina is distinctive. Freed of all association with Bohemian artists and modern ideas, it fetches a fine price from a society matron. She claims to enjoy the sensation of being watched.

Rewards:
160 x Silk Scrap
Your 'Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold' Quality has gone!
Connected: Society increase

Ask the Repentant Forger to look it over

Unlocks: Acquaintance: a Repentant Forger 1
Requires: 19 Fate
It's best to understand the value of your merchandise before you try to sell it on. [This unlocks a storyline of notable menace.]

Rewards spoiler

A deposit with the Forger

You inquire about the frame. He brushes off the question. The frame, he says, is an ordinary molded piece. The canvas, however, interests him. The black coat is laid on very thick. He allows you to leave the painting with him so that he can investigate further. [Wait for the next Opportunity. Make sure Acquaintance: a Repentant Forger stays above zero.]

Rewards:
Lose 19 Fate
Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold Increase

Meet a Repentant Forger - and ask him to look it over

Unlocks: 22 Fate
…what Repentant Forger? Your good friend who you've always known, surely [Unlock a storyline of notable menace: we'll assume you already know the Forger.]

Rewards spoiler

Master Incognito

You are on your way to arrange a sale when a hooded figure stops you. It has come to claim what you have to sell. It does not name itself. You do not ask an explanation. You receive a lumpy sack, and gratitude.

Rewards:
Connected: the Masters of the Bazaar increase (unknown limit)
a Scholar of the Correspondence increase
1 x Greyfields 1868
700 x Proscribed Material
An occurrence! Your 'Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold' Quality is now 53!
You now have 1 x Dark-dewed Cherries

Further progress in uncovering the secrets framed in gold cost Fate and so are unavailable on the wiki at this time.

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