Ask/Uses

This page contains all uses of Strong-Backed Labour:

• 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

• Ambush Smugglers (Unlock)

  An Action from The Tower of Knives: Difficulties at a Smoky Flophouse, a Card in Fallen London.

• Ambush them (Unlock)

  An Action from A Complication: Jasper and Frank (Card), a Card in Fallen London.

• Arrange your own protection (Unlock)

  Ambition: Heart's Desire!

  An Action from Ambition: A Master's Wrath, a Storylet in Fallen London.

• Ask your friends at the Docks to recommend a reliable crew (Unlock)

  An Action from Finding a Crew, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

• Assemble the experimental locomotive 2 (Unlock)

  An Action from Assess your Progress regarding the (Project Name), a Storylet in University Laboratory (Place).

B

• Build the device (Unlock)

  Ambition: Light Fingers!

  An Action from Light Fingers: Acquire Moon-Miser Snaring Supplies, a Storylet in Your Lodgings.

• Burly guards and porters (Unlock)

  An Action from Prepare for an Expedition in the Forgotten Quarter, a Storylet in Base-Camp.

• Bury the Drummer-in-the-Depths (Unlock)

  An Action from The Devil's Due, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

C

• Clear a road into the wastes from the encampment (Unlock)

  An Action from Offices of the Tracklayer's Union: Hurlers Branch, a Storylet in The Hurlers.

D

• Dig near Ealing Gardens (Unlock)

  An Action from Sponsor a Palaeontological Dig, a Storylet in Ealing Gardens.

• Dig near Moulin (Unlock)

  An Action from Sponsor a Palaeontological Dig, a Storylet in Ealing Gardens.

• Dig near Station VIII (Unlock)

  An Action from Sponsor a Palaeontological Dig, a Storylet in Ealing Gardens.

• Dig near the Magistracy of the Evenlode (Unlock)

  An Action from Sponsor a Palaeontological Dig, a Storylet in Ealing Gardens.

• Dig up the graves (Unlock)

  An Action from The Old Churchyard, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

E

• Emancipate a Clay Man (Unlock)

  An Action from The Clay Quarters (Storylet), a Storylet in The Clay Quarters.

• Establish a Pavilion of War (Unlock)

  An Action from Establishing Your Position, a Storylet in Parabolan Base-Camp.

• Expand the Church here (Unlock)

  An Action from A Mission to the Hinterlands, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

F

• Forge the Royal Navy's diving-bell (Unlock)

  An Action from St Stalactite's Shaping Pools, a Storylet in The Shattered Citadel.

G

• Get on and build the thing (Unlock)

  An Action from Build your zubmarine, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

H

• Hire others to do the transportation (Unlock)

  Ambition: Bag a Legend!

  An Action from Ambition: Bag a Legend! – Transport the Bomb, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

K

• Knowing who to employ (Unlock)

  An Action from Finding a Crew, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

M

• Make the necessary preparations (Unlock)

  Ambition: Light Fingers!

  An Action from Light Fingers: The Lure is Cast, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

• Move the stones (Unlock)

  An Action from The Rat Legion, a Storylet in Bazaar Side-Streets.

• Muster the Workers' Dreams (Unlock)

  An Action from The Munitions of War, a Storylet in The Dolorous Pavilion.

N

• Now scurry off and get... (Unlock)

  An Action from Acquiring a Velocipede, a Storylet in Bazaar Side-Streets.

O

• Offer Strong-Backed Labour (Unlock)

  An Action from Offering Tribute to the Court of the Wakeful Eye, a Storylet in The Labyrinth of Tigers.

• Offer them a job (Unlock)

  An Action from Familiar Clay Faces, a Storylet in Bazaar Side-Streets.

• One Last Voyage? (9 FATE) (Unlock)

  FATE

  An Action from The Windward Tower: the Matter of the Decommissioned Steamer, a Card in Fallen London.

P

• Permit the pilgrims entry (Unlock)

  An Action from The Drummer's Pilgrims, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

• Photography (Unlock)

  An Action from Hire professionals, a Storylet in Doubt Street.

• Procure some weaponry from one of the Mourn's 'shipyards' (Unlock)

  An Action from Explore Gaider's Mourn, a Storylet in Gaider's Mourn.

• Purchase a cabin trunk (Unlock)

  An Action from Shop at F.C. Hollow & Daughters, a Storylet in Bazaar Side-Streets.

R

• Raise a Church (Unlock)

  An Action from Broken Spires, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

• Raise a freehold (Unlock)

  An Action from Broken Spires, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

S

• Send your crew into the water (Unlock)

  An Action from 'Now! Now!', a Card in Wayland's Teeth.

• Smuggle the painting back into the Shuttered Palace (Unlock)

  Ambition: Heart's Desire!

  An Action from Ambition: Dealing with the Topsy King, a Storylet in Fallen London.

• Spring him! (Unlock)

  An Action from The Master Jewel Thief has been arrested!, a Storylet in Bazaar Side-Streets.

• Staff your Parabolan Base-Camp with hirelings (Unlock)

  An Action from Build up your Base-Camp, a Storylet in Parabolan Base-Camp.

T

• Take her for a surprise trip on the Unterzee (Unlock)

  An Action from Pursuing the Celebrated Artist's Model, a Storylet in Bazaar Side-Streets.

• Tear down the Statue to (Subject) (Unlock)

  An Action from Offices of the Tracklayer's Union: Balmoral Branch, a Storylet in Balmoral.

^

• Take a shift in the hospice (Unlock)

  HALLOWMAS

  An Action from The Roof Below, a Storylet in Mrs Plenty's Carnival.

~

• Organise local communities (Unlock)

  RETIRED The London Horticultural Show

  An Action from Tending London's Wounds, a Storylet in Ladybones Road.

• Fuel the excavation with clay strength (Unlock)

  RETIRED Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out

  An Action from several places.

• Good men are hard to find (Unlock)

  RETIRED

  An Action from Finding a Crew, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.