A Trade in Souls

Delve into the wicked toils of the soul trade! [Those with Shadowy 20 or more can unlock a dozen unique storylets in this story.]

This is a FATE-locked story.

It was originally published in February 2010

The story can be unlocked from the Fate-page for 25 FATE points.
It can be reset for 25 FATE points.

Notable Rewards and Tie-ins

: guaranteed rewards; : rewards that require additional effort and could be missed but do not affect the story or availability of other rewards; : rewards specific to certain combinations of important choices; : rewards with unknown/unclear status.

• An option in A Gift from the Capering Relicker: A dealer in souls.
• A new Unusual Frequency card (locked with A Remote Address or Your very own Infernal Contract) with 6 options:
  • Without PoSI - gain 1000 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 1 x Favours: Hell, 1 x Your very own Infernal Contract, +5 CP Hedonist (up to level 15).
  • Alternatively, a Persuasive 100 challenge - gain 1500 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 1 x Your very own Infernal Contract on success. No effects on failure.
  • With PoSI - gain 1 x Fabulous Diamond, 3 x Favours: Hell, 1 x Your very own Infernal Contract, +5 CP Hedonist (up to level 15).
  • With PoSI and a soul retrieved from the Stacks - gain 1 x Glimpse of Anathema, 1 x Night-Whisper, 3 x Favours: Hell, 1 x Your very own Infernal Contract.
  • Without a Stain - gain +3 CP Austere (up to level 10), lose -3 CP Subtle, 1 x Favours: Hell.
  • With a Stain - lose 1 x Favours: Hell.
  • With an Enhancement - lose -1 CP In Possession of a Peculiar Personal Enhancement -, gain 5 x Appalling Secret.

• Being a Shepherd, you get:
  • Shepherd's Timepiece: a Weapon providing a +2 Shadowy bonus;
  • A Standard Frequency card with the following options:
    • Trade 50 x Soul for 0-1 x Favours: Constables, 0-1 x Favours: The Church, 0-1 x Favours: Society.
    • Trade 5 x Infernal Contract for 0-1 x Favours: Constables, 0-1 x Favours: The Church, 0-1 x Favours: Society.
    • Trade 50 x Soul and 5 x Infernal Contract for 1 x Favours: Constables, 1 x Favours: The Church, 1 x Favours: Society, +5 CP Magnanimous (up to 15).
    • Trade 1000 x Soul and 100 x Infernal Contract for complete menace reset, +5 CP Making Waves, +5 CP Magnanimous (up to 15), 10 x Adrift on a Sea of Misery: and 1-2 of one of the following:
      • Favours: Constables;
      • Favours: The Church;
      • Favours: Society;
  • An option in The Tower of Sleeping Giants: The Secrets of the Rooms above a Bookshop: The owner. Playing it gives 2 x Infernal Contract.
• Being a Spirifer, you get:
  • Spirifer's Fork: a Weapon providing a +2 Shadowy bonus;
  • New options in Ladybones Road
    • Trade 100 x Soul for 300 x Nevercold Brass Sliver and +1 CP Heartless. 20% chance to also gain +2 CP Suspicion.
    • Trade 1000 x Soul for 3000 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 4 x Appalling Secret, and +5 CP Heartless. 10% chance to also gain +3 CP Suspicion.
    • Trade 1000 x Soul for 45 x Brilliant Soul.
    • Heartless gains are capped at 15, and do not reduce any other quirk.
  • An option in The Tower of Sun and Moon: Harvesting the hotel.
  • An Unusual Frequency card that also requires Seeking Mr Eaten's Name 1-5 and 1 x Starveling Cat with 1 option:
    • Succeed a Seeking Mr Eaten's Name challenge (70% at 5) for 1 x Extraordinary Implication and 2 x Appalling Secrets, fail for +1 CP Wounds.

Permanent starting storylet

• The Soul Trade
  
• Begin 'A Trade in Souls' – a substantial story