Ambition: Meet with the Topsy King
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The King glowers on top of a chimneypot. Arrayed at his feet are sheets of scrawled music and a number of […] lumps of coal […] "Fowdy trumpet, oomph at the back there," […] "GIVE IT SOME WELLY ON THE TIMPANI."
[…] Composition is, as ever, a difficult business.[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
Unlocked with Ambition: Heart's Desire! 210 - 700
Locked with Topsy Training
Storylet appears in The Flit
Options:
Ask about his preferences regarding the venue
- Spoiler Unlocked with 5 x Searing Enigma
Locked with Ambition: The King's Pointer (hidden), Ambition: A Marvellous Venue 2
Success
All clear
- You've lost 5 x Searing Enigma
- An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: The King's Pointer' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
Redirects to: Ambition: Meet with the Topsy King
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Ask about his preferences regarding the venue
- Spoiler Unlocked with Profession: Correspondent, 1 x A Pot of Violant Ink, 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum, 10 x Volume of Collated Research
Locked with Ambition: A Marvellous Venue 2, Ambition: The King's Pointer (hidden)
Success
Once heard, always forgot
- You've lost 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum
- You've lost 10 x Volume of Collated Research
- Renown: Criminals is increasing… (+~5 CP, up to level 55)
- Renown: Bohemians is increasing… (+~5 CP, up to level 55)
- An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: The King's Pointer' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
Redirects to: Ambition: Meet with the Topsy King
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Ask about the Topsy King's own heart's desire
- Spoiler Unlocked with Ambition: The King's Pointer (hidden)
Success
First stakes
Redirects to: Ambition: Meet with the Topsy King
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Ask him about previous winners
- Spoiler Unlocked with 5 x Storm-Threnody, Ambition: Heart's Desire! exactly 230
Locked with The King's Clue
Success
All Christs
- You've lost 5 x Storm-Threnody
- An occurrence! Your 'The King's Clue' Quality is now 1!
Train with the Topsy King
- Spoiler Unlocked with 5 x Uncanny Incunabulum, 100 x Correspondence Plaque, Ambition: Heart's Desire! exactly 680, 30 x Volume of Collated Research
Locked with Topsy by Halves 2, Topsy Training
Success
The art of diminution
- An occurrence! Your 'Topsy Training' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
- You've gained 1 x Renown: the Marvellous
- You've lost 5 x Uncanny Incunabulum
- You've lost 100 x Correspondence Plaque
- You've lost 30 x Volume of Collated Research
- You've gained 1 x Mastery of the Marvellous
Return Tristram Bagley's mind
- Spoiler Unlocked with Topsy by Halves exactly 1
Success
Sometimes as you were
- Renown: Criminals is increasing… (+10 CP, up to level 55)
- You've gained 1 x Favour in High Places
- You have restored Tristram Bagley's mind – though he will never be as he was. (Sets Topsy by Halves to 2 - You restored it to him. He will never be as he was, but nor is he entirely what he became. Some of the time he is the Topsy King; sometimes he is Tristram)
- You now have 1 x The Thief-Oath of Tristram Bagley
Train with Tristram Bagley
- Spoiler Unlocked with Topsy by Halves 2, Ambition: Heart's Desire! exactly 680, 5 x Favour in High Places, 5 x Comprehensive Bribe, 5 x Legal Document
Locked with Topsy Training
Success
The Topsy Way
- You've gained 1 x Renown: the Marvellous
- An occurrence! Your 'Topsy Training' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
- You've gained 1 x Mastery of the Marvellous
- You've lost 5 x Favour in High Places
- You've lost 5 x Comprehensive Bribe
- You've lost 5 x Legal Document