Things to do in Veilgarden...

When your Persuasive is 21-30

11-20 31-40

Beguile a Useful Official

A representative of the Tomb-Colonies approaches you with an offer: if you can convince a Useful Official into signing an autograph for you, they will pay well for his signature.
Unlocks: Persuasive 21 (No longer available at Persuasive 36)

Accept the task

Nothing illegal here, strictly speaking.
(Persuasive challenge, modest at 26)

Reward spoiler

Flattery: a deadly weapon in the hands of a professional

The man melts like butter. The autograph is yours! You return safely to your lodgings. Your employer from the Tomb-Colonies hands you a fragment of bandage on which she has written certain secret truths. 'Don't lose it,' she hisses.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 25 x Whispered Secret
Connected: The Tomb-Colonies increase
An occurrence! Your 'the Subject of Admiring Attention' Quality is now 1!
Something else will happen soon… don't worry. All shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
Cobblestone Rogues and Back-Alley Saints is increasing…

Befriend a Tomb-Colonist

You have been asked to 'make a tomb-colonist feel at home' by a representative of a foreign power: to encourage her to stay in the city as long as possible before her return home.
Unlocks: Persuasive 21 (No longer available at Persuasive 36)

Accept the task

If they're prepared to pay you for it…
(Persuasive challenge, modest at 26)

Reward spoiler

You have become close.

The Tomb-Colonist grows rather fond of you. She'll miss you when she goes home, she says. She expresses sorrow that she's not still alive. You could be closer friends still! You eye her bandages and say something non-committal.

Each evening, after you part from her, your employer drops by your lodgings and hands you another few moon-pearls…
Persuasive increase
Gain: 25 x Moon-pearl
Connected: The Great Game

A riskier approach: arrange for her to be robbed

Being robbed is likely to encourage one to stay and recover one's possessions, is it not?
(Shadowy challenge, chancy at 24, straightforward at 31)

Reward spoiler

'Oh, you poor thing…'

The robbery proceeds as planned. You express concern at the terrible crime rate in the Neath, but insist that her belongings can be recovered. She asks you to help, and you spend several days chasing down leads, which of course go nowhere. Eventually you arrange for the return of the valuables and she heads back to the tomb-colonies. You are paid for a job well done.
Shadowy increase
Gain: 25 x Moon-pearl
Connected: The Great Game

Failure spoiler

Thieves. They will pay.

The robbery proceeds as planned, but the tomb-colonist insists on heading back across the Unterzee on the first ship. She seems to be intent on gathering a mob back in the tomb-colonies and wreaking terrible revenge on the thief, and brooks no argument. Possibly more distressing is the fact that you don't get paid.
Shadowy increase

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Commission: Write about prisoner's honey The Magazine Formerly Known As the London Magazine may be interested in publishing some of the journals you've written about your experiences with prisoner's honey. Unlocks: Persuasive 21 (No longer available at Persuasive 32) Actions for this Venture all occur in Veilgarden. They are gathered on their own page.

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Rumourmongering!

A foreign power will pay you to spread alarming rumours
Unlocks: Persuasive 23 (No longer available at Persuasive 38)

Be subtle

Gently does it. You don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention.
(Persuasive challenge, chancy at 26, low-risk at 30)

Reward spoiler

'Good heavens, is that so?'

Hell is sending its young to be educated in Fallen London. The tomb-colonies plan an embargo on wine. The Rat Flood may recur. The notorious Hand Tax is to triple. They believe every word. You've earned your pay.
Persuasive increase
Gain: 27 x Moon-pearl
Connected: The Great Game increase

Failure spoiler

'Mm. I must confess my sources don't share your disquiet.'

Your words fall on deaf ears.
Persuasive increase

Go wild with your inventions

Let's see how far we can go with this.
(Persuasive challenge, chancy at 30, modest at 31)

Reward spoiler

'Sophia! Alert the servants! Prepare the carriage!'

Devils are feasting on human flesh in the Veilgarden! The tomb-colonists are to return home en masse! Cats are toxic! Cheese is made from spiders!
Persuasive increase
Gain: 30 x Moon-pearl
Connected: The Great Game increase

Failure spoiler

You are laughed into the street

Hm. Perhaps the business about the mathematical fungus was a little much.
Persuasive increase

Provide material to an agent of a foreign power

To be perfectly honest you don't know any actual secrets. But how hard can this stuff be to make up?
Unlocks: Persuasive 26 (No longer available at Persuasive 41)

Supply plausible information to a contact

Let's not needlessly endanger a profitable sideline.
(Persuasive challenge, almost impossible at 26, modest at 31)

Reward spoiler

Your contact listens, nodding solemnly

Intrigue in Veilgarden…whispers from the Shuttered Palace…a disappearing haberdasher who might have been murdered by revolutionaries…well she might. You didn't say she was. Anyone can speculate.
Persuasive increase
30 x Moon-pearl
Connected: Great Game

Failure spoiler

Your contact purses his lips in disappointment

You're not clear whether your information is too implausible, or too dull. It doesn't seem safe to ask.
Persuasive increase

You're an artist! Let the artistry begin!

They want information, do they. You'll give them information.
[CAUTION : Failure may dent your Connected: the Great Game quality]
(Persuasive challenge, almost impossible at 26, high-risk at 31)

Reward spoiler

Your contact can't write fast enough. He breaks a pencil. Another pencil.

Russia is sinking! Fallen London will annexe the tomb-colonies! Mr Wines is marrying the skeletal corpse of a nun! The Spider-Council is holding a debutantes' ball! It's almost impossible to stop once you've started. Just keep talking. Everything will be fine.
Persuasive increase
39 x Moon-pearl
Connected: Great Game increase

Failure spoiler

Your contact gets up when you're in the middle of a sentence.

He doesn't say a word. He just leaves. More importantly, he's left you with the bill! And your name is mud among spies now.
Persuasive increase
Connected: Great Game decrease ~12-15 points

Sketches towards a tattoo

You can draw a bit. And you've dealt with the odd spy. You've been commissioned to provide sketches towards tattoos that might conceal coded messages.
Unlocks: Persuasive 29 (No longer available at Persuasive 44)

Begin sketching

An unusual challenge, but an interesting one. The trick is to make the codes in the design easily recognisable to those in the know, but imperceptible to others.
(Persuasive challenge, high-risk at 31, straightforward at 38)

Reward spoiler

Quite satisfactory

You turn your design - a variation on the Broken Sun - over and gracefully accept your pay.
Persuasive increase
33 x Jade Fragment
Connected: Great Game

Failure spoiler

Hm. Perhaps if I turn it upside down -

It doesn't even convince you. You scrap it and start over.
Persuasive increase

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