Things to do in Watchmaker's Hill...

When your Dangerous is 31-40

21-30 41-50

Drive off a troublesome pack of marsh-wolves

Wolves or dogs gone bad, it's not clear. But they gather beneath the Observatory walls each night and howl, and it's driving the astronomers out of their minds.
[Unlocked with Dangerous 32 (No longer available at Dangerous 47]

Load for wolf

You equip yourself with a wolving-rifle from the Observatory armoury and sit vigil.
(Dangerous challenge; straightforward at 56)

Reward spoiler

A lethal guardian

You don't want either to waste ammunition or to annoy the astronomers with a fusillade of gunfire. You bring down a couple of the biggest with a couple of measured, careful shots. After that they get the hint and slink off into the night. The astronomers are grumpy about even those two shots, though. What do they expect you to do? Go down their and knock the marsh-wolves' heads together?

Dangerous increase
Gain: 30 x Rostygold
Getting to Know Cobblestone Rogues and Back-Alley Saints increase

Failure spoiler

Howls and Gunshots

Firing over their heads excites them, firing into their midst enrages them. Eventually you drive them off, but at the cost of twice the noise they usually make. You receive no pay for the night's work.

Dangerous increase

Lure them away

More dangerous, but at least you won't add the noise of gunfire to the sounds keeping the astronomers awake.
[Dangerous challenge]

Reward spoiler

Borrow? Well, they won't want it back afterwards

You borrow a sizeable joint of meat from the observatory kitchens and drag it over the tussocky ground, leaving appetising gobbets as you go. The marsh-wolves pick up the scent and follow: you are forced to retire to a tree for a difficult quarter-hour while they yap and snarl below, but they've been distracted from the observatory tonight. The astronomers are very happy with the night's silence, and pay you a little extra.

Gain: 40 x Rostygold

Failure spoiler

Pale eyes, red snarls

You borrow a sizeable joint of meat from the observatory kitchens and drag it over the tussocky ground, leaving appetising gobbets as you go. The marsh-wolves pick up the scent and follow, a little too quickly for your convenience. You abandon the joint and retreat, escaping with nothing worse than a few snapping bites. They snap it up and return happily to their howling at the Observatory.

Dangerous increase
Wounds increase

The Ring of Meat: Take part in an illegal fighting ring.

Feducci, an exiled prince of the Tomb-Colonies, runs a makeshift arena called the Ring of Meat down in one of the warehouses by the wharves.
Unlocked with Dangerous 33 (No longer available at Dangerous 48)

Fight clean

You step into the ring with a crack of your knuckles. You can get this done quick and clean. Quick, anyway. (requires Dangerous)
(Dangerous challenge; modest at 39, straightforward at 57)

Reward spoiler

In the cold circle of hanging, half-frozen carcasses you fill the air with steaming breath, pleasing cartilaginous sounds and, ultimately, teeth.

Your opponent doesn't rise, and the crowd's raucous cheer is meant as a sincere compliment - after all, many of those present hurt people professionally. As you help yourself to the winner's pot you seem to have made quite the impression. Apparently, this is only the first of Feducci's rings, and those who make a name for themselves here may be invited to the next, more prestigious arena: the Ring of Roses.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 37 x Glim

Failure spoiler

Your opponent is a bandaged tomb-colonist who has died so many times he has forgotten how to feel pain…

Among the slabs of meat swinging on their rusty hooks, the two of you trade blow after blow for the best part of the night until the laughing spectators pull you apart. As you head out into the gloomy morning you know that you can beat him. Next time…
Dangerous increase

Fight dirty

There are no rules in Feducci's tournaments. Time to see if your opponent remembered that.
(Shadowy challenge; low-risk at 38)

Reward spoiler

It turns out that a mostly-frozen slab of meat ripped from a dangling hook makes an effective improvised weapon.

You step over your opponent (or what can now be described as 'the keening meat-pile'), to receive the adulation of the crowd, many of whom are still trying to forget what they just saw you do. Later, when you're counting your winnings, you think back on one of the stories you heard after the fight. Those who prove themselves in the Ring of Meat may be recruited to the next of Feducci's tournaments: the Ring of Roses.
Shadowy increase
Dangerous increase
Gain: 40 x Glim

Failure spoiler

So close. Another second and you'd have had him.

He was practically a giant, but that was no help to him when you got one of the chains from which hang the warehouse's butchered carcasses wrapped around his throat. But in that last, desperate moment before he blacked out, he had what you suspect was the first good idea of his thuggish life, throwing himself backwards and crushing you under the weight of (i.) him, (ii.) a heavy iron chain, and (iii.) half a frozen cow. You spit blood. Next time, you won't let him get away so lightly.
Shadowy increase

Get to your quarry before Jack-of-Smiles

The enthusiastic murderer has taken to choosing his victims from Wanted posters. This is proving inconvenient.
Unlocked with Dangerous 35 (No longer available at Dangerous 50)

Jack's claimed dibs!

The red grin drawn across your quarry's wanted poster is a clear statement of his intent. You need to find your target before he does.
(Dangerous challenge; chancy at 38, straightforward at 59)

Reward spoiler

That's how you do it…

With time short, you put subtlety aside. When a door bars your way, you kick it in. When someone lies, you scare the truth from them. And when your quarry sees you and runs for it, you bring him down in a maniacal chase through the alleys. Once he realises you're not Jack of Smiles, he is so relieved he practically races you back to the police station to turn himself over. You collect the bounty, ignoring the itching sensation you feel, as if furious eyes were watching you.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 39 x Rostygold

Rare success

That'll show him!

With time short, you put subtlety aside. When a door bars your way, you kick it in. When someone lies, you scare the truth from them. And when your quarry sees you and runs for it, you bring him down in a maniacal chase through the alleys….

…which nearly ends very badly when you both run round a corner and smack into a tall, cadaverous man carrying a very sharp knife. It's Smiles himself! He doesn't like open confrontations, and he turns and bolts. You let him go. You have your target, and you know what face Smiles is wearing these days - that's a secret worth the selling.
Gain: 39 x Rostygold
Gain: 1 x Appalling Secret
Dangerous increase
Watchful increase
A twist in your tale! You are now an Annoyance to Jack-of-Smiles.

Failure spoiler

Too late!

Your target's hovel is like a ghost ship: a pot of rat-stew only now starting to boil over; a half-read paper; a hat, still warm from a head, hanging on the door-hook. You must have been just seconds behind him. Frustrated, you return to the police station to report your quarry's likely demise: only to find him, or at least parts of him, festooning the front of the building. Ha ha.
Dangerous increase

The Ring of Roses: Take part in an illegal fighting ring

Under Heartscross cemetery is a crypt for the dead of an old plague. On certain nights, petals of grave-flowers are scattered in a circle to mark a fighting-ring…
Unlocked with Dangerous 38 (No longer available at Dangerous 53)

Step into the ring and fight savagely

In Feducci's second ring, the first person to make a sound loses. You decide to go in quick and hard.
(Dangerous challenge, straightforward at 47)

Reward spoiler

A single scream, and victory.

Your opponent falls back under your assault, your knives clacking in the quiet of the crypt. He's quick, but in the end your strength wins through and you blade slips home. His scream splits the air. The spectators, keeping the ring's rule of silence, nod appreciatively. Money wrapped in muffling silk changes hands. You take your winnings and leave. You've heard there's a third and final ring beyond this one, where the fights are watched by Feducci himself…
Dangerous increase
Gain: 42 x Glim

Rare success

Oof!

Your opponent is fast, and slices your ear in the first seconds. You clamp down a cry and lash out with a low blow that makes every man in the crowd wince. A strained gasp marks your victory. You take a handful of whispering black satin as your prize.
Dangerous increase
Gain: 2 x Whisper-Satin Scrap
Wounds increase

Failure spoiler

The third blow ends it

Your opponent tries a series of clever feints, all of them transparent to your murderous eye. You pursue him across the ring, and it's only when your blades are locked at the very edge of the floor and he's staring defeat in the cold face that he finds his stomach. In a moment of desperation he somehow works his knife free, and you feel it slide between your ribs. You grit your teeth, keeping yourself from crying out as the blade stabs into you a second time. At the third blow, you can't help yourself – you give the smallest grunt, and that one sound is all it takes. Victory goes to your wild-eyed opponent.
Dangerous increase
Wounds increase

Step into the ring; trick your opponent

You test the balance of your blade. Your opponent grins, and you note his overconfidence…
(Persuasive challenge)

Reward spoiler

He fell for it.

The gap in your defences is so subtle that only a seasoned killer would have even a chance of spotting it. Fortunately, your opponent is just such a man. His blade flashes forward in the instant before he realises his mistake, and your knife slides easily across his face. His cry as much surprise as pain, but a cry is a cry, and in Feducci's second ring the first person to make a sound loses. As you pocket your winnings, you notice a woman among the spectators paying you a great deal of attention. She vanishes into the crowd quickly, but before she does you notice a black ribbon is tied around her arm. Intriguing…
Dangerous increase
Persuasive increase
Gain: 45 x Glim

Failure spoiler (unknown)

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