A Panther's Progress (Guide)
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Note: Growing a Parabolan Kitten into a Parabolan Panther is Fate-locked. This means that no narrative text may be recorded on the wiki. As such, this is a purely Mechanical guide with images instead.
General[edit]
A Panther's Progress is a Fate-locked story to grow your 
Parabolan Kitten into an 
Parabolan Panther, unlocked via the option Attend to her mewlings (20 FATE) from the Kitten in your inventory. It is progressed through opportunity cards in London and tracked with A Panther's Progress. To acquire a Parabolan Kitten, you need an owner of the Parabolan Panther to send you one. The Fallen London subreddit, and the official forums are good places to ask
Cards[edit]
Panther Options[edit]
Once you have your grown panther, you'll find a new option on each of the faction Cards for Docks, Bohemians, and Society in the London Opportunity Deck. Each will take you to a distinct location with 3 unique options, with either 1 or 2 visible depending upon your current 
The Airs of London. If you're interested in making Kittens, each Card offers a chance to increase Parabolan Spoors, which are required to make Kittens. Once you have 3 Parabolan Spoors, you'll need to draw one of these Cards again (which one doesn't matter, but the Airs do still matter) and instead of the option to increase Spoors, you'll find a new option. This will take you to a choice, and if you choose appropriately (see below) then your next 
Time, the Healer will bring you an option for kittens.
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 The Demi-Monde: Bohemians
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 The Airs of London 1-33
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? |  ? x Sudden Insight (up to 20)
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| The Airs of London 34-100
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 Dangerous
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 +1 CP Nightmares
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 Watchful
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+1 CP Nightmares
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 By the River's Side: the Docks
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The Airs of London 1-33
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 Persuasive
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 ? x Confident Smile (up to 20)
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| The Airs of London 34-100
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Dangerous
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 +2 CP Wounds
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Watchful
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+1 CP Nightmares
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 Park and Palace: Society
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The Airs of London 1-66
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Dangerous
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+2 CP Nightmares
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Watchful
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+1 CP Nightmares
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| The Airs of London 67-100
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Dangerous
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 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson (up to 20)
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Docks
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Society
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 The Airs of London 1-33
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| The Airs of London 34-66
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| The Airs of London 67-100
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Kittens![edit]
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If you've selected the option that leads to kittens this week, then after Time, the Healer comes you should find a new storylet in your Lodgings:
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After playing this, you can prepare your Panther for more kittens for the next Time, the Healer! Note that the above doesn't clear Spoors, so you can play the first 3 steps before or after the new kittens arrive.
Kitten-Gifting[edit]
So now you've got your Parabolan Panther, you'd like to spread the joy by generating Parabolan Kittens and sending them to everyone, right? Right!
Generating Kittens[edit]
The above section goes through the detail already. Some tips to keep in mind:
- Add each of the three actions that lead to
Parabolan Spoor to My Plans (by clicking on the ribbon icon at the top-right of the action description). Then you can check on My Plans to see whether the The Airs of London are in your favour for each of them. - You can cycle The Airs of London through other actions to ensure you get the Parabolan Panther option on a drawn card, if you want to.
- You can keep building up Parabolan Spoor even when you have A Panther's Burden (i.e. she is expecting kittens). If you accidentally select a tryst when you already have A Panther's Burden, you will just lose your Parabolan Spoor for no additional benefit.
Deploying Kittens[edit]
With a Parabolan Kitten in your inventory, use the kitten and select the option to gift it to another player. This will cost you an action to send, and the receiver an action to accept.
You do not need to be Acquaintances, so there is no need for either of you use an action to 
Send a Calling Card and use up your 
Influence. A Contact is sufficient, which you can add to your list of Contacts at the point of kitten deployment.
You both do need to have verified your e-mail addresses, just as you would do for any other social action. You do not need to be in the same location though.
At the Feast of the Exceptional Rose[edit]
During the first two weeks of The Feast of the Exceptional Rose in February, you have the option to Send a Lovingly Be-Ribboned Kitten as a gift. In line with most other gifts, this costs 
10 of material per Masquing, which in this case is 
200 x Surface-Silk Scrap in return for generating 
2 x Masquing. However, unlike any other gift, the Lady in Lilac will let you keep the kitten after unwrapping it, converting it from a Lovingly Be-Ribboned Kitten to a Parabolan Kitten.
- If you have a Kitten in your inventory, you will send that Kitten and use up your Surface-Silk Scraps.
- If you do not have a Kitten in your inventory, you can still spend the same Surface-Silk Scraps and your Panther will generate a Kitten on demand to be sent as a gift.
This therefore changes your strategy. You can stockpile Surface-Silk Scraps in advance of the Feast and let your stock of Kittens run down to nothing. Then use your Surface-Silk Scraps to generate dozens of Kittens faster than you could normally through Parabolan Spoor. If you use the trick of sending a gift (to an inactive account like Mr Eaten) and cancelling the request, you can receive the Be-Ribboned Kittens yourself, get all the Masquing, and be left with a horde of Kittens (more action-efficient too: one action to send the gift and none to cancel, as opposed to one action to send a gift and one action to accept it).
With the Spider Symposium and high Persuasive, you can generate around 
320 Silk Scrap per action, and then convert batches of 1000 into batches of 105 Surface-Silk Scraps. Using built-up actions before you go to bed and nearly all your morning actions in the The Spider Symposium, and then converting silk and gifting kittens during the day, you can still make full use of your opportunity deck and have other actions available for additional purposes.
Note that when Time, the Healer visits and Your Parabolan Panther Raises a Matter of Some Urgency, you do not need to play this immediately. You can leave your Panther in her enceinte state throughout the Feast, waiting to help her birth only once you've cashed in all of your Be-Ribboned Kittens.
