Ask/Against

This page lists all challenges against A Player of Chess, and their default challenge level (if known).

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• (Assign work shifts) (Emancipationist) (5)

  An Action from The Business of the City, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• (Assign work shifts) (Liberationist) (5)

  An Action from The Business of the City, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• (Assign work shifts) (Other) (5)

  An Action from The Business of the City, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• (Assign work shifts) (Prehistoricist) (5)

  An Action from The Business of the City, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

A

• Advertise, and make sure the newcomers are welcome (5)

  An Action from Drained, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Allow your Inculcating Kraken to engage in commerce (9)

  An Action from The Lofty Tower: the Potential of Premises at the Bazaar, a Card in Fallen London.

• Apply a law of contracts that passes London's understanding (2)

  An Action from Prosecution of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

• Ask them for a proof in cedar (2)

  An Action from Prosecution of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

• Assist the missionaries (10)

  An Action from Troubled Times Recur, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Attend to the management of Burrow (5)

  An Action from Visit the Freehold at Burrow-Infra-Mump, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

B

• Begin to construct a cover identity (3)

  An Action from Your Cabinet Noir: The Back Room, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Brave the Lilymire (7)

  An Action from The Horizons of Hell, a Storylet in Marigold Station.

• Bring on the most rigorous judge (2)

  An Action from Defence of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

C

• Catch up with international affairs (0)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Choose a queen mate (4)

  An Action from Determine the Endgame, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

• Choose an epaulette mate (6)

  An Action from Determine the Endgame, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

• Consummate a long-awaited agreement (-1)

  An Action from Spiralhügel, a Card in A Neon Future.

• Contrive an exchange of judges (2)

  An Action from Defence of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

• Corrupt a rival network (12)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Cover your tracks 1 (2)

  An Action from Work in your Cabinet Noir, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Cover your tracks 2 (2)

  An Action from Work in your Cabinet Noir, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Crack a code (Codename: Sugarplum Version) (2)

  FATE

  An Action from Work in your Cabinet Noir, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Crack a code (2)

  An Action from Work in your Cabinet Noir, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Craft a water-tight case (8)

  An Action from Defence of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

• Credential your cover identity (3)

  An Action from Your Cabinet Noir: The Back Room, a Storylet in Balmoral.

D

• Deal with Peach Brandy pirates (10)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Deduce obscure conclusions (10)

  An Action from Partial Historiography (Storylet), a Storylet in Jericho Locks.

• Deliver a Discordant Missive (8)

  An Action from The Lower Castle, a Storylet in Adulterine Castle.

• Deploy a whirlwind of allegiances (5)

  An Action from Through the Hanging Mountains, a Storylet in The Dolorous Pavilion.

• Destablise the Khanate (10)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Develop your cover identity more deeply (3)

  An Action from Your Cabinet Noir: The Back Room, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Direct your network (8)

  An Action from The Sinking Quarters, a Storylet in Khan's Heart.

• Disgrace a Deacon (4)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Draw on the insight of a professional colleague (2)

  FATE

  An Action from Defence of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

E

• Encode signals to a Subtle Machinist (7)

  An Action from several places.

• Encourage your student to work with the Percipient Cricketer (3)

  FATE

  An Action from Work with your Profound Student, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

• Endow your cover identity with eccentricities (3)

  An Action from Your Cabinet Noir: The Back Room, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Engage in correspondence with practised experts (2)

  An Action from Deceased Languages (Storylet), a Storylet in Jericho Locks.

• Exploit God's Editors (0)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

F

• Fortunately, you have made arrangements (7)

  An Action from A Crack of Gunfire!, a Card in Fallen London.

G

• Guide newcomers to where they might best fit in (5)

  An Action from Growing the Population, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

H

• Hail them with their own passphrases (11)

  An Action from A Khaganian Patrol Vessel (Corsair), a Card in The Salt Steppe.

• Help Furnace spread the revolutionary word Upstairs (7)

  An Action from The Business of the City, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

I

• Indulge in a quiet game (5)

  An Action from A relaxed day at the Club, a Card in Fallen London.

• Infiltrate Scottish politics (4)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Invoke sacred methods of enforcing an oath (2)

  An Action from Prosecution of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

K

• Keep Furnace just where she is (Anti-Emancipationist) (7)

  An Action from Furnace Leading Anti-Emancipationists, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Keep Furnace just where she is (3)

  An Action from several places.

L

• Look into the Reformer's own reputation (5)

  An Action from Who is the Reformer of Reputations?, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Look into the nature of the incident (The Waswood) (3)

  An Action from Preparations for a Meeting (The Waswood), a Storylet in The Waswood.

• Look out for Hell's interests even as you fight to defeat it (2)

  An Action from Prosecution of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

M

• Make a leap of code-breaking insight (5)

  An Action from Work in your Cabinet Noir, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Make a perfectly illicit move (Betting On 1) (9)

  An Action from The Goat's Gambit, a Card in Adulterine Castle.

• Make a perfectly illicit move (Betting On 2) (9)

  An Action from The Goat's Gambit, a Card in Adulterine Castle.

• Make sure your cover identity has been observed in the right quarters (3)

  An Action from Your Cabinet Noir: The Back Room, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Manage your correspondence (5)

  An Action from Midnight in Port Carnelian, a Card in A Mortal Future.

• Manipulate a European power (4)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Manipulate the movements of the city (10)

  An Action from Reach out to the mind of the Creditor, a Storylet in Fallen London.

• Manoeuvre the Counter-Church (5)

  An Action from Visit the Counter-Church in the Wild, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

• Mirror white's opening (3)

  An Action from Supervise the New Game, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

O

• Open according to accepted best practices (2)

  An Action from Supervise the New Game, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

• Open with a familiar move – then deviate (5)

  An Action from Supervise the New Game, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

• Outflank the Ministry's servant (0)

  An Action from Ministry Enforcement, a Card in Ealing Gardens.

• Outmanoeuvre a corporate intervention (7)

  An Action from The Creditor's Grievances, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

P

• Paint Balmoral in a subversive cast (4)

  An Action from Representational Arts, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Peel philanthropy away from propaganda (9)

  An Action from Troubled Times Recur, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Perform a Gibeon ritual (12)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Pit historical accounts against each other (10)

  An Action from Partial Historiography (Storylet), a Storylet in Jericho Locks.

• Pit one Varchaasi against another (5)

  An Action from Varchas from Behind the Glass, a Storylet in The Dome of Scales.

• Play Cornelius against the rest (5)

  An Action from Debating Matters of Business with the Board, a Storylet in Moloch Street.

• Play Furnace Ancona against the rest (5)

  An Action from Debating Matters of Business with the Board, a Storylet in Moloch Street.

• Play a game of shatar (7)

  An Action from The Nephrite Quarter, a Storylet in Khan's Heart.

• Play a move you learned from the Boatman (6)

  An Action from Oversee the Middle Game, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

• Play a novel approach (2)

  An Action from Supervise the New Game, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

• Play against the Disillusioned Grandmaster (4)

  An Action from Chequered Boards and Chess-Addicts, a Storylet in Port Cecil.

• Play against the Nacreous Outcast (6)

  An Action from Chequered Boards and Chess-Addicts, a Storylet in Port Cecil.

• Play against the Nacreous Survivor (6)

  FATE

  An Action from Chequered Boards and Chess-Addicts, a Storylet in Port Cecil.

• Play against the Novice Lamp-Cat (3)

  An Action from Chequered Boards and Chess-Addicts, a Storylet in Port Cecil.

• Play aggressively (3)

  An Action from Oversee the Middle Game, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

• Play chess for ownership of The Poisoned Pawn (5)

  An Action from Visit The Poisoned Pawn, a Storylet in Port Cecil.

• Play correspondence chess (0)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Play defensively (4)

  An Action from Oversee the Middle Game, a Storylet in The Chessboard.

• Play with Sugarplum in the snow (9)

  FATE

  An Action from Snowfall, a Card in Adulterine Castle.

R

• Receive a diplomatic visit of devils (10)

  An Action from Troubled Times Recur, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Reckon with the wealth-seeking charter of the GHR (10)

  An Action from Troubled Times Recur, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Release your servant back to Mr Fires (5)

  An Action from Plans and plots, a Storylet in Moloch Street.

• Rely on a form of honour that came before laws (2)

  An Action from Prosecution of (Trial), a Storylet in Evenlode Courts.

• Rely on the Commodore's old codes (5)

  FATE

  An Action from A Corvette of Her Majesty's Navy, a Card in Zailing the Unterzee.

• Rely on your personal respectability and authority (2)

  An Action from Debating Matters of Business with the Board, a Storylet in Moloch Street.

S

• Search for meaning in the rearragements (9)

  An Action from Shifting Streets (Storylet), a Storylet in Fallen London.

• See this history made theatre (10)

  An Action from An Ancient Refuge Site, a Storylet in The Dome of Scales.

• Seek out a suitable Liberationist to lead the Tracklayers (5)

  An Action from Meddle in the Local Governance, a Storylet in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Study the diplomatic overtures of cities past (10)

  An Action from Partial Historiography (Storylet), a Storylet in Jericho Locks.

• Supervise a visit from the Castellan of Balmoral (September) (7)

  An Action from Troubled Times Recur, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Supervise a visit from the Castellan of Balmoral (not September) (7)

  An Action from Troubled Times Recur, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

T

• Take confession from a Bohemian Intelligencer (10)

  An Action from The Business of a Midnighter, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Threaten London (10)

  An Action from Reach Out to the Mind of London, a Storylet in Your Activities.

• Turn Mr Fires' servant into your own (5)

  An Action from Plans and plots, a Storylet in Moloch Street.

• Turn him to be your own Lackey (Tracklayer's City) (2)

  An Action from Mr Fires' Lackey, a Storylet in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Turn him to be your own Lackey (2)

  An Action from Conversation with the Lackey of Mr Fires, a Storylet in Moloch Street.

W

• Wander the glades (5)

  An Action from Silvered Glades, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Wander the woods (3)

  An Action from The Wispish Fringe, a Storylet in Balmoral.

• Witness and observe (10)

  An Action from Reach out to the mind of the city, a Storylet in The City of the Tracklayers.

• Work with the Codebreaking Courier (1)

  An Action from Work in your Cabinet Noir, a Storylet in Balmoral.

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• Look into the nature of the incident (3)

  RETIRED Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out

  An Action from Preparations for a Meeting, a Storylet in Fallen London.