Villainy: Area-Diving

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Villainy: Area-diving Actions for the Villainy: Area-diving Venture are all found in Spite. You will need to raise your Casing… quality to advance this Venture. New options appear when your Casing… quality reaches 5. Once this Venture is available, you can complete it multiple times.

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Villainy for profit: Area-diving

The area is the lower stairs where the kitchen staff go in and out. The area-dive is the art of sneaking in and finding whatever valuables have been left about.

[You'll need to build up a Casing… quality to at least 5 to complete this.]
Unlocked with Shadowy 21 No longer available at Shadowy 32

That sounds profitable…

Time it right, and they might not have locked away the silverware, or you might intercept a delivery of something tasty.

Reward spoiler

You'll need to case the place first

You make yourself a fixture on the street corner.

Begun a new venture! Villainy: Area-diving
Casing… shows your progress in the venture.

Villainy for profit: Area-diving!

The area is rarely locked up, but staff are always in and out, timing is everything.

You'll need to build up a Casing… quality to at least 5 to complete this.
[Unlocked with Villainy: Area-diving 1]

A straightforward approach… Get close and watch

You need to make sure you're not spotted.

_ challenge

Success spoiler

That's worth knowing…

You watch the servants' movements.

Shadowy increase
Casing… increase
Getting to Know Cobblestone Rogues and Back-Alley Saints increase

Failure spoiler (Unknown)

This might be faster… Chat to the kitchen staff on their way in and out

Find out their routines.

_ challenge

Success spoiler

Chatty lot, these

You're learning things of use…

Persuasive increase
Casing… increase
Getting to Know Cobblestone Rogues and Back-Alley Saints increase

Failure spoiler (Unknown)

Area-diving: the first dive

Tonight is the night…
Unlocked with Villainy: Area-diving 1, Casing… 5

All is prepared

The servants will be busy with a salon. In and out fast, that's the key.
(Casing… challenge; modest at 5, straightforward at 8)

Reward spoiler

Secret chutney?

For the three and a half minutes that you need, the area is empty. You help yourself to a rather fetching set of matched rostygold cutlery.

On your way out you see a box nestled behind the preserves in the pantry. Actually, more a chest than a box. It looks very solid, and locked more securely than a chutney - even a really good chutney - would warrant. Your pockets are bulging with spoons, so you resolve to return for this intriguing morsel on another night. [Continue to unlock this storyline further!]

Gain: 100 x Rostygold
Villainy: Area-diving has increased to 2!
You've lost a Quality: Casing… although it doesn't say so

Failure spoiler (Unknown)

Area-diving: the box in the pantry

Back to that well-appointed house tonight…
Unlocked with Villainy: Area-diving 2, Casing… 5

Flex your fingers.

Same as last time. Wait for the salon to get going, then in and out fast.
(Casing… challenge; modest at 5)

Reward spoiler

A scandalous collection.

You are in and out like the shadow of a cat. The box is heavy, but manageable. You heave it into the street and away to your lodgings.

The locks take considerable ingenuity to defeat. Delicate manipulation and the occasional hammer blow sorts them out. Now, what's in there?

Not the sort of thing one should find in a respectable pantry, certainly. There are a number of racy daguerreotypes. A pair of entirely indecent zoetropes. Some curious wooden objects. Well, it's an interesting find. It does raise the question of what to do with it all.

Villainy: Area-diving has increased to 3!
You've lost a Quality: Casing… although it doesn't say so

Failure spoiler

Gah!

If it's not some elderly uncle and his port, it's some enervated cousin calling for sherry. Damn these people! Can't they just keep the servants out of the pantry for five minutes?

Casing… decrease

Area-diving: what to do?

You have a substantial collection of scandalous material, stolen from an otherwise respectable pantry. What are you going to do with it all?
Unlocked with Villainy: Area-diving 3

Keep it.

One could probably find a buyer for the stuff. Or, perhaps, one might have one's own uses for it.

Reward spoiler

Box of delights

It's all yours now. Just keep it hidden from the Ministry of Public Decency. And practically everyone else.

Gain: 50 x Proscribed Material
Scandal increase
Hedonist increase
You've lost a Quality: Villainy: Area-diving although it doesn't say so

Hand it over to the authorities for burning.

The Ministry of Public Decency will be pleased to take this cache off your hands and set fire to it. There may even be a reward.

Reward spoiler

At the Ministry

The tall, dour men from the Ministry take charge of the box. One of the zoetropes is shocking enough to merit a considerable reward. You walk away with lighter heart and heavier purse.

Austere increase
Gain: 200 x Jade Fragment
You've lost a Quality: Villainy: Area-diving although it doesn't say so

A spot of blackmail.

You'll have to study your target again, but this could be very profitable.

Reward spoiler

Are these yours?

You were never one to pass up an opportunity.

[Raise Casing… to 5 to conclude your blackmail]

Villainy: Area-diving has increased to 4!
You've lost a Quality: Casing… although it doesn't say so

Into the river with it.

Filth! Get rid of it right now! You can't wait for the Ministry to get here. if you're having trouble with scandal, this will certainly help.

Reward spoiler

Sploosh!

The box sinks into the oily waters of the Stolen River. Good riddance! It's probably foreign, or something, as well as revolting.

Scandal decrease
Austere increase
You've lost a Quality: Villainy: Area-diving although it doesn't say so

Area-diving: A spot of blackmail.

The owner of the house you burgled has, or rather had, a collection of scandalous material. That's unlucky for her.
Unlocked with Villainy: Area-diving 4, Casing… 5

Blackmail her.

They say money makes the world turn. Today, it buys back a collection of indecent zoetropes.
(Casing… challenge; modest at 5)

Reward spoiler

Boxes and pearls

An anonymous note. A threat of exposure to the Unexpurgated London Gazette. A panicked response from your victim. A gratifying absence of Constables, consulting detectives and other undesirables. A tense exchange on a bridge in Tyrant's Gardens.

It all proceeds as smoothly as you could hope for. The lady in question has her box back, and you are better off to the tune of a lovely pearl necklace. The local villains applaud your acumen.

Gain: 300 x Moon-pearl
Connected: Criminals increase
You've lost a Quality: Villainy: Area-diving although it doesn't say so
You've lost a Quality: Casing… although it doesn't say so

Failure spoiler (Unknown)

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