A Turncoat
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You are becoming known for your uncertain loyalties.
Game Instructions: Don't let this rise beyond 3, or you may find options closed to you.
A Turncoat is a Menaces quality.
See here for a list of Actions that lower this quality, or click to show them.
Penalty
Unlocked at Menace Level: 4
Levels
- Somewhat Untrustworthy [Your apparent change in loyalties has raised eyebrows.]
- Somewhat Untrustworthy [Commentators are puzzled by the true nature of your loyalties. Perhaps you are not to be trusted...]
- Somewhat Untrustworthy [You are becoming known as a creature of inconstant loyalties.]
- Beyond the Pale [You have changed sides once too often. You are not to be trusted.]
Wiki note: Anything above 4 shares the same message
Avoiding increases
A Turncoat tracks how often you have betrayed London's underworld to the Law, or vice versa. It is mainly used during A Boxful of Intrigue.
After you have become 
A Power in Waiting - and become either The Consience of Empire or A Guardian of the Realm, picking an option opposed to your previous choice (for instance, hunting a union leader as Consience of Empire) changes your allegiance and increases Turncoat.
The only way to reduce Turncoat is the storylet The Traitor's Feast in Spite, which unlocks at A Turncoat 4. It also requires 
Shadowy 120 and 
A Survivor of the Affair of the Box 12.
A Turncoat can also be raised in a few other ways.
- Working with the Last Constable: Abandon her or Off to the Cheery Man during the
Family and Law story - Working with the Cheery Man: Go to the Constable during Family and Law
- The talkative gaoler: A grass in New Newgate Prison
- Pugilism and politics: Beat up the Underworld Kingpin from An Implausible Penance
