'The Unknown Unknown'

From Fallen London Wiki
A player-created Guide is available for this content: Professional Activities (Guide)

How are the above links here?

StationVIII.png
Spoiler warning!
This page contains details about Fallen London Actions.

From: The Business of a Licentiate


The alias does not refer to a known individual, but to one merely hypothetical: an agent with particular feelings, who must have committed a particular move in the Great Game.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 50-70, Discovered the Factory VIII Laboratory


Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 140

  • 96 - very chancy (41%)
  • 119 - chancy (51%)
  • 143 - modest (61%)
  • 166 - very modest (71%)
  • 189 - low-risk (81%)
  • 213 - straightforward (91%)
  • 234 - straightforward (100%)

Narrow, Kataleptic Toxicology 10 (50% base)

  • 6 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 7 - high-risk (20%)
  • 8 - high-risk (30%)
  • 9 - tough (40%)
  • 10 - very chancy (50%)
  • 11 - chancy (60%)
  • 12 - modest (70%)
  • 13 - very modest (80%)
  • 14 - low-risk (90%)
  • 15 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Promiscuous poisoning

It takes a sweaty, acrid night [...] You have to employ [...] esoteric extractive techniques [...] to get the triggering compounds just right [...]

You distribute the compound at Wilmot's End. Widely [...] You don't receive confirmation of your success until payment arrives [...]

Depending on Mysterious Client Attention Odds:


Failure

Lessons unlearned

Either a great many of the spies in Wilmot's End were plotting the downfall of Buenos Aires, or your mixture was insufficiently discriminating. A dozen spy networks have to reconstitute themselves to cover the sudden gap in their agents.