Ambition: Nemesis (Broad Guide)

This is meant to be a spoiler-minimal guide to Ambition: Nemesis. It will not feature a step by step walk-through, so if you are stuck don't look here. Instead, the point is to give you a hint what to grind in preparation for the next step. Anything which can be gained within 20 actions (without cards) is generally not listed here.

Hints on what materials to bring along will only be given for hard to access storylets like sea voyages.

Beginning (Ambition: Nemesis 1-30)

In order:

• Route: The Shuttered Palace
• Route: The Forgotten Quarter
• Route: Wolfstack Docks
• Route: The University
• 3500 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey

Oversea Location (Ambition: Nemesis 31-36)

To unlock, you will need:

• A Ship, guide can be found here: Ship Guide
• Renown: Hell 10. Guide here: Raising Favours
• 3x Mark of Credit Page: this will take some time, so start and grind Counting the Days as soon as you can. Using the guide: Spending Secrets and Counting the Days (Guide) will help you progress through this optimally.

Once you have 3x Mark of Credit Page, you do not need to spend another CtD carousel to gain the access item, instead, use FIND NEW STORIES: Chat with the Local Gossip

Before you start your voyage, you will also want to have:

• Stone Tentacle-Key
• 2x Portfolio of Souls

London (Ambition: Nemesis 37-90)

• A Scholar of the Correspondence as high as you can easily grind it (see: A Scholar of the Correspondence (Guide)).

If you want to go past level 7, you may want to avoid being Banished from the Court - before hitting your desired level, so you can write Somewhat challenging music to increase it profitably.

• (110 - 5 × Scholar) x Compromising Document
• (110 - 5 × Scholar) x Correspondence Plaque
• (2 - Scholar / 15) x Searing Enigma
• (4 - Scholar / 10) x Uncanny Incunabulum

Level 8 or higher is recommended, since that saves you a Searing Enigma

Guessing/Deduction:

• 4-12 x Extraordinary Implication (4 per guess, 3 possible answers)

Alternatively:

• 1 x An Identity Uncovered!
• 4 x Extraordinary Implication
• 2 x Compromising Document

Guessing/Deduction (Independent from above):

• 2-12 x An Identity Uncovered! (2 answers required, 14 possible answers, 2 of which don't consume)
• 1 x Favours: Criminals

Alternatively:

• 10 x Compromising Document (Not consumed)
• 500 x Cryptic Clue
• 2 x Extraordinary Implication
• 2 x Volume of Collated Research

After that, you will need:

• Heartless + Ruthless at least ten or 200 x Tale of Terror!!
• 20 x Whisper-Satin Scrap
• 20 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap
• 2 x Bejewelled Lens
• 2 x Primordial Shriek

Remembering Something (Nemesis 100-150)

• 77 x Romantic Notion
• 1 x Bat with Attitude
• 6500 x Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax
• 1 x Searing Enigma
• Access to either Port Carnelian or The Mind of a Long-Dead God. The former is grindable, the latter might take many months of drawing cards and will only be accessible one time before grinding is needed again.
• 100 x Cryptic Clue

Something about some book (Ambition: Nemesis 160-190)

• 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum
• 5 x Volume of Collated Research
• 5 x Presbyterate Passphrase
• 7 x Favours: Bohemians or 7 x Favours: Criminals
• Forceful 3 or 3 x Personal Recommendation

The following subsections can be done in any order

Something about some sin

• 5 x Favours: Society, 5 x Favours: Bohemians, 5 x Favours: Revolutionaries, or Profession: Licentiate
• 250 x Romantic Notion, 50 x Compromising Document, or A Poet-Laureate
• 3 x Blackmail Material

Something about a little something, and something whole

• some 10000 , plus up to 2700 more if you have bad luck

Instead of soley relying on the Bazaar, you can also buy the needed item from the The Rat Market, which may increase your effective EPA. Certain professions may be of use here. For example, when The Rat Market is buying Uncanny Incanabula, Silverers can sell their weekly pay for Rat-Shillings.

The above will probably take some 2500 actions at 3.8 EPA, which is almost 11 days if you do not waste any actions, and probably at least a month if you need to sleep or work.

You will need to farm up and pass a check for a certain quality. This quality is discrete, so one level is one level, no CP nonsense.

Companion	Challenge Difficulty	Success	Failure
Sulky Bat	100	5 x Quality	3 x Quality -1 x Sulky Bat
Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider	75	10 x Quality	5 x Quality -1 x Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider
Complaisant Frost-Moth	250	You're done	15 x Quality -1 x Complaisant Frost-Moth
Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief	200	You're done	5 x Quality -1 x Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief

Alternatively can finish without a check if you have The Minister of State Affairs, The Minister of War, The Minister of Culture, The Minister of Enigmas and 50 x Quality

Final steps (Ambition: Nemesis 200-4500)

• A certain profession or Embroiled in the Wars of Illusion 25, 1 x Searing Enigma

Before going, consider packing:

• optionally, 1 x Night-Whisper and 3 x Antique Mystery
• optionally, 11 x Antique Mystery and 100 x Ostentatious Diamond
• optionally, 2 x Vital Intelligence
• optionally, 1 x Judgements' Egg

All of these are optional and probably not worth from a mechanical point of view. Bring a few second chances and be prepared to lose a level of some of your attributes (like in the Nadir), and you will be fine.

Afterwards, there is a choice which will get you your secondary ambition item. The former choice (something something unchain) eventually gives you an Affiliation item with

• Watchful +6
• Shadowy +3
• Dreaded +1
• Glasswork +1

The latter choice gives you a Home Comfort

• Watchful +6
• Dangerous +10
• Dreaded +1
• Glasswork +1

After a few steps, you get to make another choice. One will give you an item of type Treasure with

• Shadowy +13
• Persuasive +6
• Dreaded +4
• Kataleptic Toxicology +2

The other will give you an item of type Treasure with

• Watchful +6
• Persuasive +13
• Respectable +4
• Kataleptic Toxicology +2

And that is it. Congratulations on achieving your Ambition.