Bazaar Companions (Guide)
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Early MYN Content and Onwards |
There are a host of Companions available in Fallen London, and indeed three of the shops in the Bazaar sell Companions (although one is Fate-locked). While you can see their price, description, and stats through the shop interface, what you don't see is whether there are any additional advantages to being accompanied by any of these. This page addresses that need, listing various repeatable activities that require these Companions.
Summary[edit]
In general, it is worth having one of most Companions as this unlocks various options. This will greatly depend on whether you can easily afford them of course, so you'll want to start with the cheaper Companions. An overall assessment of which ones are most useful follows below. This is subjective, and your individual goals may lead you to a different opinion.
| Shop | Good | Neutral | Bad |
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| Nassos Zoologicals |
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| Redemptions |
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Later in the game, you may wish to optimise the contents of your Opportunity Deck; as such, here is a summary of which Companions add cards to your deck:
| Shop | Do not add Opportunity Cards | Add Opportunity Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Nassos Zoologicals |
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| Redemptions |
Additional interactions:
| If you have both of these Companions | They add an Opportunity Card |
|---|---|
 Grubby Urchin +  Malevolent Monkey |
The Urchin and the Monkey[3] |
 Scuttering Squad +  Midnight Matriarch |
Like rats and cats |
 Ruthless Henchman +  Alluring Accomplice |
The Henchman and the Accomplice |
Nassos Zoologicals[edit]
Cheerful Goldfish[edit]
A very cheap addition to your roster, this little fellow reduces 
Nightmares. Equip it before playing Dream opportunity cards, for example, to reduce your Menace build-up.
A Cheerful Goldfish can then give you 
2 x Piscine Research when you are performing research with an 
Ichthyological Focus in your University Laboratory. This consumes your Cheerful Goldfish.
In Fallen London, you can spend Cheerful Goldfish to:
- (1) Feed your plant a goldfish, when
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant (see: Tournament of Lilies (Guide)).
In Parabola, you can spend Cheerful Goldfish to:
- (1) Bait the Focused Albatross, to reduce its ferocity when trying to capture a
Focused Albatross. - (1) Offer a habitation to one of the smaller Fingerkings, gaining you
1 x Favours: Fingerkings and replacing the Cheerful Goldfish with a 
Possessed Goldfish (which reduces your BDR, useful for certain Bone Market interactions for example).
- A Possessed Goldfish can then give you 2 x Piscine Research and
4 x Parabolan Research when you are performing research with an Ichthyological Focus in your University Laboratory. This consumes your Possessed Goldfish. - You can sell a Possessed Goldfish to
A Teller of Terrors at the Bone Market for 
2 x Preserved Surface Blooms and 
1 x Royal-Blue Feather.
- A Possessed Goldfish can then give you
Lucky Weasel[edit]
Allows you to take part in City Vices: a tournament of weasels! (an unusual-frequency opportunity card in Fallen London). With a Lucky Weasel, you have a 30% chance of success.
When you have reached 
A Name Scrawled in Blood 2, you will unlock Business on Watchmaker's Hill in 
Watchmaker's Hill. When 
The Airs of London are 0-25 and you Encounter: an enthusiastic outing, a Lucky Weasel can win you 
36-45 x Moon-Pearl.
In 
The Flit, you can Entertain the Topsy King by attempting to Pull your Lucky Weasel from a hat. Success gives you 
70 x Rat on a String, but failure will lose your Lucky Weasel.
If you have 400 Lucky Weasels, you'll draw the opportunity card You Appear to Have Purchased an Extraordinary Number of Weasels. This will grant you the special accomplishment 
A Weaseller.
In Fallen London, you can spend Lucky Weasels to:
- (1) Gain 1 x Favours: Urchins from the standard-frequency faction opportunity card The Roof-Tops: Urchins.
- (9) Feed a box of weasels to the plant, when Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant (see: Tournament of Lilies (Guide)).
In a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river, you can spend Lucky Weasels to:
- (all) Offer the Boatman a sacrifice, awarding you
-2 CP Wounds. This loses you all your Lucky Weasels, so in general it's best to carry exactly one.
In Parabola, you can spend Lucky Weasels to:
- (1) Offer a habitation to a moderate-sized Fingerking, gaining you 1 x Favours: Fingerkings and replacing the Lucky Weasel with a
Weasel of Social Discomfiture (which greatly reduces your 
Respectable, useful for certain Bone Market interactions for example).
- You can sell a Weasel of Social Discomfiture to
An Investment-Minded Ambassador at the Bone Market for 
2 x Moves in the Great Game. - If you are A Weaseller and have 400 Weasels of Social Discomfiture, you'll draw the opportunity card You Appear To Have Corrupted An Extraordinary Number of Weasels. This will change the description of your A Weaseller quality.
- You can sell a Weasel of Social Discomfiture to
Reprehensible Lizard[edit]
Owning a Reprehensible Lizard will add a standard-frequency card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: Lizardly matters. This has a 60% chance of success, giving: 
x 1 Confident Smile, -1 CP Nightmares, and a 1.75 
profit in items. This is generally not considered to be valuable.
At 
Mrs Plenty's Carnival in The games tent, a Reprehensible Lizard lets you try Lizard Throwing which gives you a 50% chance to win a 
Sulky Bat (or, on a rare success, 3 x Sulky Bat and 
1 x Sapphire).
In The Flit, when investigating Bats and Cats, a Reprehensible Lizard lets you Try intercepting some bats through which you can gain a Sulky Bat (as well as advance the storyline).
A Reprehensible Lizard can then give you 
3 x Amphibian Research when you are performing research with an Herpetological Focus in your University Laboratory. This consumes your Reprehensible Lizard.
In Parabola, you can spend Reprehensible Lizards to:
- (1) Furnish the Fingerkings with a Lizard, gaining you 1 x Favours: Fingerkings and replacing the Reprehensible Lizard with a
Viric Lizard (which greatly reduces your 
Bizarre, useful for certain Bone Market interactions for example).
- A Viric Lizard can then give you 25 x Amphibian Research and 10 x Parabolan Research when you are performing research with an Herpetological Focus in your University Laboratory. This does not consume your Viric Lizard.
- You can sell a Viric Lizard to
A Tentacled Entrepreneur at the Bone Market for 
1 x Rumour of the Upper River.
- A Viric Lizard can then give you
Sulky Bat[edit]
Owning a Sulky Bat will add a standard-frequency card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: A Parliament of Bats. With this, you can try to gain a Bat with Attitude (either through a rare success of about 5% probability, or by spending 100 x Sulky Bat to guarantee it). It also has a valuable option to spend 
1 x Vision of the Surface (worth 0.50 ) to gain 
1 x Favours: The Great Game.
In The Flit, you can Entertain the Topsy King by attempting to Make your Sulky Bat disappear. Success gives you a Bundle of Oddities, but failure will lose your Sulky Bat.
In 
Godfall, when the 
Airs of Godfall are 0-40, you can Loose your Sulky Bat to gain 
Progress of a Pilgrimage and 
St Stalactite's Favour (see: Pilgrimages in Godfall (Guide)).
In 
Ealing Gardens, at Licensed by Mr Hearts, you can use a Sulky Bat to gain 
2 x Bat Wing (which may or may not use up the Sulky Bat depending on your approach).
In Fallen London, you can spend Sulky Bats to:
- (10) Feed a few bats to your plant, when Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant (see: Tournament of Lilies (Guide)).
- (1 or 2) Train some bats of your own when investigating Bats and Cats in The Flit, to advance the storyline. You need 10 to attempt this, and will lose 1 on a success or 2 on a failure.
In a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river, you can spend Sulky Bats to:
- (all) Offer the Boatman a sacrifice, awarding you -2 CP Wounds. This loses you all your Sulky Bats, so in general it's best to carry exactly one.
Talkative Rattus Faber[edit]
The Talkative Rattus Faber gives -25 to each of your main Attributes. Why would you want that? Well, you gain more CP in levelling an Attribute when it is lower, so if you can reduce your Attribute artificially then you can increase it faster (see: Leveling (Guide)). The Weasel of Woe is more effective at this, but the Talkative Rattus Faber is significantly cheaper.
If you have completed Sartorial squeamishness, then having all three of 
Talkative Rattus Faber, 
Working Rat, 
Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief opens a story in Your Lodgings: A night-time conference. See: Seeking the Meaning of the Plaster Face (Guide).
In Watchmaker's Hill, one of the rat companions can be used for Stealth watch repair, a standard-frequency opportunity card. Each rat has a different test.
Araby Fighting-Weasel[edit]
Allows you to take part in City Vices: a tournament of weasels! (an unusual-frequency opportunity card in Fallen London). With an Araby Fighting-Weasel, you have a 70% chance of success.
When you have reached A Name Scrawled in Blood 2, you will unlock Business on Watchmaker's Hill in Watchmaker's Hill. When The Airs of London are 0-25 and you Encounter: an enthusiastic outing, an Araby Fighting-Weasel can win you 46-55 x Moon-Pearl.
In Fallen London, you can spend Araby Fighting-Weasels to:
- (1) Get
Sign of the Chiropteromantic Zodiac: The Crow or The Shepherd when you Ask Madame Shoshana to cast your horoscope at Mrs Plenty's Carnival.
During Hallowmas, an Araby Fighting-Weasel can be upgraded to an 
Ermine Assassin.
- Owning an Ermine Assassin unlocks an option on City Vices: a tournament of weasels! (Attend with your Ermine Assassin) which doesn't require you to pass a luck check and gives you
200 x Piece of Rostygold and 
15 x Maniac's Prayer (3.5 in sale value). With 
Someone Is Coming spent on 
Bone Fragments through Raw material, this amounts to up to 5.5 per action.
Dazed Raven Advisor[edit]
Owning a Dazed Raven Advisor will add a standard-frequency card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: A kindness of ravens. Amongst other options, with this card you can:
- Replace your Dazed Raven Advisor with a
Dreamy Raven Advisor at the cost of 1 x Antique Mystery.
- This can be further replaced with a
Philosophical Raven Advisor at the cost of 
1 x Primaeval Hint.
- This can be further replaced with a
Mystic Raven Advisor at the cost of 1 x Primaeval Hint, 
20 x Volume of Collated Research, 
20 x Memory of Distant Shores, 
1 x Extraordinary Implication.
- This can be further replaced with a
- This can be further replaced with a
- Replace your Dazed Raven Advisor with a
Wary Raven Advisor at the cost of 
1 x Blackmail Material.
- This can be further replaced with an
Unscrupulous Raven Advisor at the cost of 
1 x Diary of the Dead.
- This can be further replaced with a
Devious Raven Advisor at the cost of 1 x Diary of the Dead, 
2 x Bazaar Permit, 
1 x Comprehensive Bribe, 1 x Blackmail Material.
- This can be further replaced with a
- This can be further replaced with an
It should be noted that the Ravens do not have any uses for anything, and are inferior companions despite costing so much more than more readily available ones that give better stat bonuses.
Deshrieked Mandrake[edit]
Owning a Deshrieked Mandrake will add a standard-frequency card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: The song of the Mandrake. This has a 60% chance of success, giving: x 1 Confident Smile, -1 CP Nightmares, and a 1.75 profit in items. This is generally not considered to be valuable.
Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider[edit]
Owning a Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider will add a standard-frequency card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: Spiders and flies. This has a 60% chance of success, giving: 
x 1 Sudden Insight, -1 CP Wounds, and a 1.75 profit in items. This is generally not considered to be valuable.
In 
The Blind Helmsman, you can spend A Night at the Spider Pits. Rather than betting on another spider, you can use your own Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider. The expected payoff is poor (0.04 ), unless you also have 
Arachnologist 2, in which case this is the best option here (0.36 ) but still low.
In Fallen London, you can spend Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spiders to:
- (1) Feed your plant a sorrow-spider, when Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant (see: Tournament of Lilies (Guide)).
Working Rat[edit]
Owning both a Working Rat and a 
Ratskin Suit will add a standard-frequency card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: Sartorial squeamishness. This cannot be discarded. Either you must get sell the rat or the suit, or you can gain 
Sympathetic about Ratly Concerns which opens up an additional storyline (and this card will not appear again)...
If you have completed Sartorial squeamishness, then having all three of Talkative Rattus Faber, Working Rat, Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief opens a story in Your Lodgings: A night-time conference. See: Seeking the Meaning of the Plaster Face (Guide).
In Watchmaker's Hill, one of the rat companions can be used for Stealth watch repair, a standard-frequency opportunity card. Each rat has a different test.
Malevolent Monkey[edit]
Owning a Malevolent Monkey will add a very infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: The Honey-Addled Monkey. Amongst other options, with this card you can:
- Replace your Malevolent Monkey with an Alluring Accomplice at the cost of 200 x Piece of Rostygold (requires you to have
Renown: Hell 10). If you fail the 
Persuasive 60 test, you will instead get a Grubby Urchin. - Replace your Malevolent Monkey with a Ruthless Henchman at the cost of
200 x Nevercold Brass Sliver and 
3 x Favours: Criminals. If you fail the luck test, you will instead get a 
Devious Henchman.
If you also own a Grubby Urchin, owning a Malevolent Monkey will add a very infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: The Urchin and the Monkey. This has various options, one of which grants Favours: Urchins.
During the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, a Malevolent Monkey can be upgraded to a 
Pentecost Ape.
During Christmas, a Malevolent Monkey can be converted to a 
Dark-Carapaced Crustacean by feeding it an 
Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow.
- A Dark-Carapaced Crustacean can then give you 25 x Piscine Research when you are performing research with an Ichthyological Focus in your University Laboratory. This does not consume your Dark-Carapaced Crustacean.
Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief[edit]
If you have completed Sartorial squeamishness, then having all three of Talkative Rattus Faber, Working Rat, Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief opens a story in Your Lodgings: A night-time conference. See: Seeking the Meaning of the Plaster Face (Guide).
In Watchmaker's Hill, one of the rat companions can be used for Stealth watch repair, a standard-frequency opportunity card. Each rat has a different test.
Midnight Matriarch[edit]
A Midnight Matriarch can give you 5 x Laboratory Research when you are performing research to Find a Route to Parabola in your University Laboratory.
If you also own a Scuttering Squad, owning a Midnight Matriarch will add an unusual-frequency card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: Like rats and cats which cannot be discarded.
Weasel of Woe[edit]
The Weasel of Woe gives -300 to each of your main Attributes and -10 to all Advanced Skills. Why would you want that? Well, you gain more CP in levelling an Attribute when it is lower, so if you can reduce your Attribute artificially then you can increase it faster (see: Leveling (Guide)).
Equipping a Weasel of Woe sets the 
Woeful quality. This is used to prevent certain options appearing, so that the Weasel's properties can't be exploited. It also adds two abundant frequency cards to your Fallen London opportunity deck: A Dream of Claws and A Dream of Teeth, both of which increase Nightmares.
If you have 400 Weasels of Woe, you'll draw the opportunity card You Appear to have Purchased an Extraordinary Number of Weasels of Woe. This will grant you the special accomplishment 
A Woeseller.
Bengal Tigress[edit]
During Hallowmas, a Bengal Tigress can be upgraded to an 
Extravagantly Titled Tigress.
In Parabola, you can spend Bengal Tigresses to:
- (1) Upgrade your
Parabolan Defences from 2 to 3.
Overgoat[edit]
The Overgoat has a much higher stat bonus (
Watchful +20) than any other non-Fate Companion (at most +10). Even Fate-locked Companions are rarely higher than +10, with only two non-goat exceptions at +11 and +12. It also has a correspondingly ridiculously-high cost of 11,712.80 .
All fear the Overgoat! is a standard-frequency opportunity card in Fallen London, unlocked with Watchful 100. Owning a goat unlocks additional options on this card, including:
- A pair of Overgoats can be upgraded to one
Übergoat at the cost of 1 FATE. An Übergoat grants Watchful +30 (as well as BDR +4).
- Elsewhere, you can spend seven Übergoats and one
Impossible Theorem to gain a 
Heptagoat.
- Elsewhere, you can spend seven Übergoats and one
Owning an Overgoat (or Übergoat or Heptagoat) will add a standard-frequency card to your 
Adulterine Castle opportunity deck: Caprine Authority.
Redemptions[edit]
Devious Henchman[edit]
In the Cave of the Nadir, a Devious Henchman can be upgraded to a 
Ravenous Henchman.
Grubby Urchin[edit]
Owning a Grubby Urchin will add a very infrequent card to your opportunity deck that's only drawn in your lodgings: Your Grubby Urchin is becoming troublesome. This has various options, one of which grants Favours: Urchins. If you also own a Malevolent Monkey, owning a Grubby Urchin will add a very infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: The Urchin and the Monkey. This has various options, one of which grants Favours: Urchins.
You can spend Grubby Urchins to:
- (4) Set up an Orphanage on the lodgings card The Tower of Eyes: Behind Closed Doors at a Handsome Townhouse; see Handsome Townhouse: Schemes (Guide) for more information.
Once you gain access to a University Laboratory, you can put your Grubby Urchin to work there without losing his item. You probably won't find much use for him there though until you're advanced enough to require a source of Parabolan Research.
During Hallowmas, a Grubby Urchin unlocks an option to gain a 
Relict Catapult (a Watchful +9, 
Shadowy +9 Weapon).
Starry-Eyed Scoundrel[edit]
During Hallowmas, a Starry-Eyed Scoundrel can be upgraded to a 
Silver-Eyed Scoundrel.
In your Possessions, you can spend Starry-Eyed Scoundrels to:
- (1) Convert
2 x Sky-Story into 
1 x Intriguer's Compendium.
Winsome Dispossessed Orphan[edit]
If you also own any 
F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum, owning a Winsome Dispossessed Orphan will add an infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: Your Winsome Orphan is out of control. This has various options, one of which grants Favours: Urchins.
You can spend Winsome Dispossessed Orphans to:
- (1) Offer
25 x Tribute to the Court of the Wakeful Eye (Offer a winsome dispossessed orphan) in the Labyrinth of Tigers; see Associating with Radical Academics (Guide) for more information. - (2) Set up an Orphanage on the lodgings card The Tower of Eyes: Behind Closed Doors at a Handsome Townhouse; see Handsome Townhouse: Schemes (Guide) for more information.
- (1) Admit your Winsome Orphan to the Orphanage once you are engaged in that scheme.
During Hallowmas, a Winsome Dispossessed Orphan can be upgraded to a 
Dutiful Orphan or an 
Unforgiving Urchin.
Alluring Accomplice[edit]
Owning an Alluring Accomplice will add a very infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: Overly alluring?. This has various options, one of which grants Favours: Criminals.
If you also own a Ruthless Henchman, owning an Alluring Accomplice will add a very infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: The Henchman and the Accomplice. This allows you to spend certain Favours to gain items worth between 3 and 3.5 .
During Hallowmas, an Alluring Accomplice can be upgraded to a 
Fabulous Accomplice.
- You can go on to marry your Fabulous Accomplice to get a
Platonic Partner in Crime. This also adds a very infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: An Afternoon Entirely Without Mischief (which gives 4.5 of items, or increases 
Casing...).
- For 20 FATE, you can upgrade your Platonic Partner in Crime to a Platonic Eminence Grise.
- For 20 FATE, you can upgrade your Platonic Partner in Crime to a
Ruthless Henchman[edit]
Owning a Ruthless Henchman will add a very infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: Etiquette for the Ruthless. This has various options, one of which grants Favours: Criminals.
If you also own an Alluring Accomplice, owning a Ruthless Henchman will add a very infrequent card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: The Henchman and the Accomplice. This allows you to spend certain Favours to gain items worth between 3 and 3.5 .
Scuttering Squad[edit]
If you also own a Midnight Matriarch, owning a Scuttering Squad will add an unusual-frequency card to your Fallen London opportunity deck: Like rats and cats which cannot be discarded.
Mr Chimes' Lost & Found[edit]
The various items and Companions in this shop are bought using 
Memory of a Tale. You gain these by completing Exceptional Stories which require you to spend Fate.
For more information, see: Mr Chimes' Lost & Found (Guide).
