Things to do in Veilgarden...

When your Persuasive is 11-20

1-10 21-30

Deepen your acquaintance with prisoner's honey

The stuff might just be profitable as well as pleasurable.
Unlocks: Persuasive 11 (No longer available at Persuasive 25)
(Persuasive challenge; modest at 17)

Take notes on your experiences

You can read them later to your associates, who will no doubt be suitably impressed.
(Persuasive challenge; straightforward at 20, modest at 16)

Rewards spoiler

You place a drop of honey on your tongue, lie back and close your eyes, pen and notebook close at hand.

Prisoner's Honey does not bring dreams to those who sample it. Instead, it physically transports them to dreams. Your body fades from the couch as the gentle humming of bees fills the room.

The nature of the dream to which you travel depends in large part on your own imaginative powers. This is a little disturbing, since you find yourself in a moonlit garden of white flowers and weeping statues. The statues, like the garden, are very beautiful, but the effect is rather melancholy and you are not entirely sorry to return.

The honey-den's proprietor reads your notes, and, delighted by the effect they may have on his business, gives you a free sample.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 7 x Prisoner's Honey

Rare Success

You are in a graveyard of thrones…

Splendid seats of gold and porphyry, jade and mahogony and silver jut from the hoary ground. Mourners pass between them, carrying candles in their left hands and crystal glasses of sunlit wine in their right. You make your way between the thrones, reading the names on each. Ezekiah Hepthwaite. Victoria Ambrose. Antonio Feducci. And you.

There it is - your name and date of birth, the date of your death, and a small but detailed verse on the precise circumstances of your end. Excellent. Now you know where not to be and when. You smile. The masked mourners toast your cunning.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 14 x Prisoner's Honey
Gain: 1 x Hard Earned Lesson

Failure spoiler

You place a drop of honey on your tongue, lie back and close your eyes, pen and notebook close at hand.

Prisoner's Honey does not bring dreams to those who sample it. Instead, it physically transports them to dreams. Your body fades from the couch as the gentle humming of bees fills the room.

The nature of the dream to which you travel depends in large part on your own imaginative powers. Or so they say. There must be some sort of mistake. You find yourself in a bleached desert of ash and white stone, inhabited only by broken statues which spit acid when you wander too close.

Well you can't write that down! People will think you're some sort of maniac! When you return to the honey-den, your clothes are rather badly marked with stains and holes from the acid, but the proprietor refuses to compensate you for the damage.
Persuasive increase

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Commission: Immortalise Jack-of-Smiles in another penny dreadful! Jack-of-Smiles is a possessing spirit who from time to time occupies some poor idiot's corpse and slinks round the streets cutting up people he takes a dislike to…. Unlocks: Persuasive 15 (No longer available at Persuasive 26) Actions for this Venture all occur in Veilgarden. They are gathered on their own page.

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Play decoy for a street magician

While all eyes are on you, the magician's other assistant will pass through the crowd, lifting wallets while attention is elsewhere…
Unlocks: Persuasive 17 (No longer available at Persuasive 27)

My watch? That's not my watch!'

You shake the pocketwatch in the magician's face. He protests that, certainly! that watch is the same one he caused to disappear! The crowd titters expectantly.
(Persuasive challenge; modest at 18)

Reward spoiler

A rousing success

You and the magician eventually come to well-rehearsed blows. The crowd is delighted! And a shadow moves among them, lightening their pockets. Afterwards you are awarded your share.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 1 x Surface Currency
Gain: 1 x Glim
Gain: 10 x Moon-pearl

Failure spoiler

A little too much enthusiasm

You and the magician eventually come to well-rehearsed blows. The crowd is delighted! The magician's accomplice moves among them. But afterwards you find that someone took the opportunity of your distraction to pick your pockets. Your loss almost wipes out your share of the loot.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 1 x Surface Currency

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Seduction: Honey-sipping heiress Become better acquainted with a charming young heiress If her guardian knew she was coming down here… Unlocks: Persuasive 18 Actions for this Venture all occur in Veilgarden. They are gathered on their own page.

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Seduction: Honey-sipping jewel-thief Become better acquainted with a charming young jewel-thief Well he says he's a jewel-thief, but people say those sorts of things in honey-dens. Unlocks: Persuasive 18 Actions for this Venture all occur in Veilgarden. They are gathered on their own page.

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Chat with the Duchess' private secretary

The Duchess' secretary has a honey habit?
Unlocks: Persuasive 20 (No longer available at Persuasive 35)

See if you can get him to open up

He must know some fascinating secrets.
(Persuasive challenge, modest at 26)

Reward spoiler

He's not quite indiscreet, but he does drop a few hints.

The Duchess' relationship with the cats of the city is …not quite clear, but she hears a great deal. Her secretary is a treasure-trove of secrets.

Persuasive increase
Gain: 12 x Cryptic Clue

Rare success

He's forgotten something

The secretary is on to your game of questions. He stands up abruptly, makes an excuse about finding a stone bucket, and leaves. Only a scrap of paper remains. But what a scrap…

Persuasive increase
Gain: 1 x Compromising Document

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