The Empress' Shadow
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Teach at Sinning Jenny's Finishing School! Recruit students and train them in important skills, such as deportment and maiming. Then send the class to plunder the secrets of the Empress' Shadow – Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, who is visiting from the surface!
This is a FATE-locked story.
Author: Emily Short
It was originally published in December 2016
The story can be unlocked from the Fate-page
for 35 FATE points.
It can be reset for 30 FATE points.
Wiki note: The story gives access to Sinning Jenny's Finishing School. This is a special location that will stay in the game even after finishing the story.
More information can be found here.
Notable Rewards and Tie-ins
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Disposition of the Empress' Shadow -
The Shadow in Stockings
- Access to Sinning Jenny's Finishing School.
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A source of
Favours: Revolutionaries, 
Favours: Bohemians, 
Favours: The Church, 
Favours: Urchins, 
Favours: The Great Game, 
Favours: Tomb-Colonies, 
Favours: The Docks. Note that you have to pass a 50% luck challenge to receive a favour. The cycle takes about 12 actions. -
Additionally with The Frequently Deceased, a source of
Favours: Society. Note that you have to pass a 50% luck challenge to receive a favour. The cycle takes about 12 actions. -
The same carousel has non-favour resolutions:
1 x Moves in the Great Game, 
11 x Dubious Testimony.
1 x Knob of Scintillack, 
2 x Sworn Statement, 
2 x An Identity Uncovered!.-
With
Held in Esteem by the Crew of the Galatea (The Gift), 
1 x Partial Map. -
With
The Regard of the Generous Princess (The Gift), 
1 x Ostentatious Diamond, 
2-5 x Tale of Terror!!. -
With
Dreams of a Future: Paris, 1908: (Lost in Reflections), 
1 x First City Coin, 
1 x Relic of the Second City, 
1 x Relic of the Third City, 
1 x Relic of the Fourth City.
- A railway board meeting option: Call in a favour with Sinning Jenny. Allows you to pass Sinning Jenny's Persuasive check.
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An option to get a
Dark-Carapaced Crustacean during Whitsun (using 
Aged Egg, Untreated): a Companion providing a +3 
Dangerous, +1 
Bizarre bonus. Can be used in lab projects with 
Ichthyological Focus: Study your Dark-Carapaced Crustacean.
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As a rare success, you get a Gilded Crustacean: a Companion providing a -1
Watchful, +1 
Persuasive, +6 Dangerous bonus. Can be used in lab projects with Ichthyological Focus: Study your Gilded Crustacean.
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As a rare success, you get a
Unique options and ending with:
Unique cards in Sinning Jenny's Finishing School during:
