Unfinished Business in Ladybones Road

When your Watchful is 61-70

51-60

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Consulting detective required

They want your services as a detective now? When you are mired in the study of antiquities?
[Unlocked with Watchful 70]

Well, what is the case?

An Oriental lady of some means has vanished. Her family of respectable merchants offers a reward for her whereabouts.
challenge, straightforward 74?

Rewards spoiler

What could provoke such hunger?

Tracking down the lady is hardly a wearisome task for a detective of your distinction. You find her taking her fourth luncheon of the day in a lower class eating establishment. She devours her stew in a most unbecoming fashion and orders more. The lady refuses to budge from her table, but you inform her family of her location and are paid.

Gain: 69 x Jade Fragment
Connected: the-widow increase

Failure spoiler (unknown)

A personal interest

An Oriental lady of some means has vanished. Her family of respectable merchants offers a reward for her whereabouts. You lose track of what they're saying. Somehow, you know this woman's name…
challenge, straightforward 75
[Unlocked with Unaccountably Peckish 1]

Rewards spoiler

A kindred spirit

Tracking down the lady is hardly a wearisome task for a detective of your distinction. You find her taking her fourth luncheon of the day in a lower class eating establishment. She devours her stew in a most unbecoming fashion and orders more. The lady refuses to budge from her table, but she does invite you to join her. You are, as it happens, terribly hungry. You devour a pork chop. Another pork chop. A dish of mushrooms au gratin. A complete roast swan. The evening passes in a haze of gradual satiation. Your quarry takes your hand and asks you: have you ever been North?

That's the last thing you recall. You awake, covered in gravy, to be presented with an enormous bill. The woman is gone.

Lose: 50 x Rostygold
Connected: the-widow decrease
Persuasive decrease
Watchful increase

Failure spoiler

Watchful increase

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Unfinished Business in Ladybones Road

Perhaps the old place still hides a few secrets.

This storylet unlocks with Watchful at 70 but individual options all require that one be A Person of Some Importance. This storylet allows one to accumulate specific items necessary for the acquisition of the more expensive items obtained in the Bazaar Sidestreets.

The anatomy of a secret Consider this secret, this hidden thing. Look at it from all angles. See how it gleams in the pale gaslight. Unlocked with Appalling Secret 1, A Person of Some Importance 1 Rewards spoiler Breaking it down Your secret isn't complete. There are cracks along its implications. Flaws in the assumptions. If you really look closely, it isn't so terrible on its own. A hundred palatable scraps of mystery, but nothing more. Gain: 100 x Whispered Secret Lose: 1 x Appalling Secret

The study of antiquities Spies have taken to baking messages into horse-head amulets. Your contact has intercepted a cache of real ones, but she suspects there are fakes among them. Can you pick out the antiques from the intrigues? She'd rather not smash any of the real ones. Unlocked with A Person of Some Importance 1 This storylet will cost you 2 actions! (Watchful challenge; straightforward at 105) Rewards spoiler A swift eye for value You sort through the amulets with a decisive swiftness. You separate them into three piles on the table of a tavern within earshot of the gallows: amulets containing messages, fakes, and your fee. Watchful increase Gain: 40 x Relic of the Fourth City

A lovely thought Wouldn't it be marvellous if people were so impressed by your erudition and intellect that they sent you little presents? Unlocked with A Person of Some Importance 1 (Watchful challenge; straightforward at 105) Rewards spoiler All the more lovely for actually happening The little card is unsigned, but suggests that you 'might need this'. The elaborately wrapped box contains a sticky black and grey mass. Delightful. Watchful increase Gain: 100 x Lamplighter Beeswax

A tradition developed after the Fall For a few days each year, on the days of certain obscure and alarming saints, the Great Game pauses. A few gather to drink fine wine and relax on these occasions. Few, because not many among them can discover the location of the next meeting. Unlocked with Connected: The Great Game 10, A Person of Some Importance 1 (Watchful challenge; straightforward at 105) Rewards spoiler A great many steps up The gallery at Saint Fiacre's Cathedral? Of course! An original setting for a party, with a built-in hundred-yard drop to discourage imbibing too freely. You spend a pleasant afternoon and a rather wobbly evening, and come away with the best wishes of your peers and a few decent bottles. Watchful increase Gain: 50 x Greyfields 1882

Rewards spoiler (Rare)

Noisy thiing

The gallery at Saint Fiacre's Cathedral? Of course! An original setting for a party, with a built-in hundred-yard drop to discourage imbibing too freely. And what's this, rattling around the dome? Grab it as it wails past you!
Watchful increase
Gain: 1 x Aeolian Scream

Mischief and brass The Rotund Devil knows you're close to senior church figures. He's willing to pay to keep certain activities unknown to the Bishop of Southwark. Unlocked with Connected: The Church 10, A Person of Some Importance 1 This storylet will cost you 5 actions! Rewards spoiler Dusty black brass The bars of brass arrive at your lodgings hidden in a coal-sack, as you arranged. This arrangement suits you, for now. But there will be hell to… there will be considerable difficulties if the Bishop finds out what you've been up to. Gain: 550 x Nevercold Brass Sliver Connected: Church decrease (This is not the best action for Nevercold Brass Sliver. More can be scored at Mahogany Hall, either by preparing for a show or by teaching the Louche Devil without the Connected: Church loss. However, there is no skill challenge on this action.)

Debate the nature of Primordial Shrieks The little coffee shop won't be threatening Caligula's business. But you can still have a good argument here with passing academics. (Watchful challenge; straightforward at 105) Rewards spoiler Perhaps that wasn't kind 'You're right! What a fool I've been! Enough of Metacoustics! Take these - I've no use for them. I'm going to move to a safer field of enquiry.' Watchful increase Gain: 50 x Primordial Shriek

Rewards spoiler (Rare)

You didn't ask for a demonstration

'Actually, I've got a particular one in this jar. Let me show you…'
Watchful increasing…
You've gained 1 x Aeolian Scream

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