Urchins
Connections with the urchin gangs of the city.
Levels:
1-9 — Acquainted
10-19 — Associated
20-49 — Familiar
50-99 — Welcome
100-149 —
150+ —
Favours
Favours can be called in at the Flit:
Trade favours with urchins
Ere. We got a little bit of somefink for you. Payment? You done us a good turn, aintcha? We can call that payment.
Unlocks with Connected: Urchins 15
Connected: Urchins decrease 125+ change points
Random reward ~85 penceWho are the orphan-gangs?
A suspicious number of orphans call the tangled streets of the Fifth City home. The child-gangs that plague us include: the Fisher-Kings, the Naughts, the Crosses, the Regiment, and the Knotted Sock.
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Connection cards
The Roof-Tops: Urchins [Standard]
They're an eery lot, the gangs of kids who rule the roofs of London…
Pick pockets with the urchins
The urchin gangs are a blight on the pockets of the wealthy. They might share their tricks with you. This will improve your Shadowy.
[Unlocked with Shadowy no more than 30]
[Unlocked with Connected: Urchins 3]
Run the rooftops with the urchins
Strong legs, a good eye for distance and a steady nerve. Can you make the thief's road your own? This will improve your Shadowy.
Out you go, longshanks
Occasionally, an urchin survives long enough to be too old for the gangs. Perhaps you can buy their secrets before they graduate to the enterprises of adult criminals. This will improve your Shadowy.
[Unlocked with 20 x Glim]
Listen to a song the Fisher-Kings sing in the high places
There's a scrap of a secret and a whisper of a truth in these songs.
[Unlocked with Counting the Days no more than 13]
[Unlocked when Closest To is: Urchins]
[Unlocked with Spending Secrets 4]
Solving a Case: Ask your Urchin contacts
They hear more than anyone knows, up there in the dark. This is an effective way to make progress.
[Unlocked when Engaged in a Case is: the Other Wax-Work, the Crooked Bridge, the Copper Thumb, the Early Grave, the Man with the Mirrors, the Starving Poet, the Honey-Sipping Detective, the Absconding Devil, the Missing Heiress, the Third Assassin, the Effusive Relicker, the Purveyor of Names, or the Arranger of Murders]
In the shadow of All Christs Spire
This is the neutral ground where…
[Unlocked with 1 x Lucky Weasel]
Jack on the roof
An urchin in a panic leaps down from a nearby rooftop. A pair of urchins. Half a dozen. Is it raining grubby children? The glint of a knife from above. Jack.
[Unlocked with The Jack-of-Smiles-Case 1 and The Jack-of-Smiles-Case no more than 19]
[This storylet will cost you 5 actions!]"Ere, you! D'you want this?"
"It smells like old herring and…"
[Unlocked with 1 x Night-Whisper]
[Unlocked with 7 x Storm-Threnody]
[Unlocked with the Taste of Lacre 1]
[Unlocked with A Clear Path 1]
Choose Trickster as your Profession
"You're always one step ahead, aincha? Little Albert's like that. You two would get on like crow and raven. Famous partnership. I can see it now. A Profession gives you a single unique item; in this case, a Loathsome Imp. You may only have one Profession at a time.
[Unlocked with Route: The Flit 1]
[Unlocked when Profession: is: None]
Return a treasure to the urchins
You've recently come into possession… If you're not currently Closest To anyone else, this will make you Closest to the Urchins.
[Unlocked with Magnanimous 5]
[This storylet will cost you 5 actions!]Proof your rooftop against the urchins
Your roof leaks because their grubby feet keep knocking tiles loose. Their wild words disturb your peace. Yesterday, they dropped an Aeolian Scream down your chimney. They are no longer welcome! This will sever your ties with the Urchins, allowing you to align with another group. Beware: You will lose all Connected: Urchins.
[This storylet will cost you 5 actions!]Sell the location of the Cave of the Nadir
A stuttering boy with a liver-coloured birthmark: someone you've seen before. "We can keep it s-s-safe," he assures you. "And we need to be forgotten. S-s-ometimes. But we can't pay too much." This will earn you a Starstone Demark and the gratitude of the Urchins. If you are Closest To someone else, you will become Closest To the Urchins.
[Unlocked with Route: the Cave of the Nadir 3]
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