Ask/Uses

This page contains all uses of Rat on a String:

• Cards and storylets that unlock if you possess it
• Actions requiring it (the item may or may not be lost after completing these actions)
• Game text that varies if you have this item, or specific amounts of it
• Numeric values such as difficulty or unlock thresholds change if you have this item, or scale based on the amount you have

A

• A Feast! (Unlock)

  An Action from Dealing with suspicion, a Storylet in The Flit.

• A private audience with the King (Unlock)

  Ambition: Heart's Desire!

  An Action from Heart's Desire – the Topsy King, a Storylet in The Flit.

• A trip to the Flit (Unlock)

  An Action from The Ways of the Flit, a Card in Fallen London.

• Add a few dozen dead to the pile (Unlock)

  An Action from The Departed, a Card in Watchmaker's Hill.

• Add your own dead to the pile (Unlock)

  An Action from The Departed, a Card in Watchmaker's Hill.

• Ask for help with a little sabotage (Unlock)

  An Action from Making Use of Cats (storylet), a Storylet in The Flit.

• Attempt the daring rescue of a Regiment urchin (Unlock)

  An Action from Make Use of your Rookery Password, an Item in your inventory.

B

• Bet on your own spider... using a secret weapon (Unlock)

  An Action from A Night at the Spider Pits, a Storylet in The Blind Helmsman.

• Bring dinner for her cats (Unlock)

  An Action from An audience with the Duchess, a Storylet in The Shuttered Palace.

• Buy a season pass to the Labyrinth of Tigers (Unlock)

  An Action from The Gate of the Labyrinth of Tigers, a Storylet in The Labyrinth of Tigers.

• Buying secrets (Unlock)

  Ambition: Bag a Legend!

  An Action from Ambition: Bag a Legend! 49 – The Sisterhood, a Storylet in The Convent.

C

• Claim bounty for dead rats (Unlock)

  An Action from The Department of Menace Eradication, a Storylet in Dept. of Menace Eradication.

D

• Dealing with Suspicion (Unlock)

  An Action from Preparing for a Big Score, a Storylet in The Flit.

• Develop into an Envenomed Pickle of Vinegar, Vengeance, and Hillchanger Scorpion (Unlock)

  An Action from A Kitchen for Artists, a Storylet in Station VIII.

• Dinner time (Unlock)

  An Action from Your sprouting companion, a Card in Fallen London.

G

• Get the Raggedy Men on your side (Unlock)

  An Action from Recruit the Raggedy Men, a Storylet in The Flit.

H

• He wants something from you before he'll talk (Unlock)

  Ambition: Nemesis

  An Action from Ambition: Nemesis 3, a Storylet in Watchmaker's Hill.

M

• Make a convincing case to the Court of Cats (Unlock)

  Ambition: Light Fingers!

  An Action from Light Fingers: A Session of the Court of Cats, a Storylet in Fallen London.

P

• Perhaps dinner will do the trick (Unlock)

  An Action from What do the urchins know?, a Card in Fallen London.

• Provide a smorgasbord of deceased rats (Unlock)

  Ambition: Light Fingers!

  An Action from Light Fingers: A Family Visit, a Storylet in Parabolan Base-Camp.

Q

• Question the Scarred Naturalist (Unlock)

  Ambition: Bag a Legend!

  An Action from Ambition: Bag a Legend! 3, a Storylet in Watchmaker's Hill.

S

• Send a little present 2 (Unlock)

  An Action from KNAVE OF REGRETS, a Card in Fallen London.

• Source food from local street-vendors (Unlock)

  An Action from Plan a Wedding, a Storylet in Your Social Engagements.

T

• Talk to the Raggedy Men (Unlock)

  Ambition: Heart's Desire!

  An Action from Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 3, a Storylet in The Flit.

• Talk to the Regiment (5 FATE) (Unlock)

  FATE

  An Action from Make Use of your Rookery Password, an Item in your inventory.

• The gift of a big bag of dead rodents (Unlock)

  An Action from Give a Gift! A commotion in the Square of Lofty Words, a Card in Fallen London.

Y

• You have another love (Unlock)

  An Action from Pursuing a Mutually-Agreed Divorce, a Storylet in Your Lodgings.

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• Buy the Sausage About Which No One Complains (Unlock)

  FRUITS OF THE ZEE

  An Action from Licensed by Mr Hearts, a Storylet in Ealing Gardens.

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• Send a little present (Unlock)

  RETIRED

  An Action from Restitution?, a Card in Fallen London.

• Show us the money 1 (Unlock)

  RETIRED

  An Action from Funding the expedition, a Storylet in The Forgotten Quarter.

• There! (Unlock)

  LEGACY RETIRED

  An Action from Horse tripe! Horse tripe! Only a week old! Tuppence a pound!, a Storylet in Spite.

• Bribe the little chap (Unlock)

  LEGACY RETIRED

  An Action from Does the honey-den still have your soul?, a Card in Fallen London.

• Talk to the Knotted Sock (Unlock)

  RETIRED

  An Action from Make Use of your Rookery Password, an Item in your inventory.