Calling in Favours (Guide)
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Fixed storylets[edit]
Now, what to do with them? Perhaps you want to Call in some favours!
Notes:
- Generally, 1 Favour is worth 420 pence of saleable items - the notable exception being The Flit's storylet.
Opportunity Cards[edit]
- An Implausible Penance gives several choices for cashing in Favours: Criminals
- City Vices: a Rather Decadent Evening provides an opportunity to cash out Favours: Bohemian
- A consideration for services rendered provides an opportunity to cash out Favours: Hell
- In addition, all favours except Favours: Rubbery men can be used to train stats on Faction Cards
Conflict Cards[edit]
An efficient way to cash in your favours (and your connections with The Widow) is through conflict cards. These all require favours at 5+ in two conflicting factions at once, set up a conflict between two factions, and require you choose a side, spending favours from the side you didn't choose. They are drawn at Very Infrequent frequency (half as common as the typical card), and are undiscardable once drawn. Most either spend 2 favours to gain 7.5-8.5 
or spend all favours to gain an amount which scales with the number of favours spent, on the order of 22.5 for 7 favours. Several also offer a compromise option, which requires 3 actions and a high value in a particular quirk, but which gains 7.5-8.5 without spending any favours.
In addition, all options on all conflict cards generate 1cp of 
Someone is Coming; assuming no access to FATE-locked options, this has a value of 2 with access to the Bone Market, 1.1 if you are 
A Person of Some Importance, 1 if you've sold your soul, or 0.5 otherwise.
Of particular note is the card A contact in the Great Game has a tale for you. This card is unlocked with 5 
Favours: The Great Game and 5 
Favours: The Church, and allows spending 2 Favours: The Great Game for 7.5 of goods, 1cp of Someone is Coming, and one of every second chance. This is one of the most efficient ways of getting second chances in the game, particularly Sudden Insights and Hard-Earned Lessons.
Options sorted by favour type[edit]
Note: The following lists only include notable uses for each Favours type that are both profitable at some point in the game, as well as repeatable. May be incomplete.
Bohemians[edit]
Storylets:
- Call on your Bohemian friends to return a favour in The Shuttered Palace gives
210 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey for 1 favour - Offer the talents of an artist gives
5 x Tribute for 5 favours - A city of culture gives
30 Inspired... when Carving out a Reputation at Court (Guide)
Cards:
- The Demi-Monde: Bohemians Allows you to train your
Persuasive for 1, 3 or 5 favours depending on level. (~20 CP per favour) - Make it clear the Bohemians aren't welcome any more provides
300 x Shard of Glim, 
10 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip and Someone is Coming for 2 favours - City Vices: a Rather Decadent Evening gives wine and
Making Waves for 1 favour - a statue in Ealing Gardens allows you to Call in favours from Bohemians. This gives
2 x Ivory Humerus for 4 favours - Pursue a Scheme: encourage the wise and the wicked to attend your Salon gives
Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon
The Church[edit]
Storylets
- An arrangement with the Vicar-General in The Shuttered Palace gives
420 x Foxfire Candle Stub for 1 favour - '...I have written to the Bishop of St Fiacre's...' in the Tomb-Colonies allows you to spend 1 favour to reduce
Scandal by 6 CP - Offer a plump vicar provides 5 x Tribute for 5 favours.
- Call on the help of the Church provides 35 CP Inspired... for 1 favour.
Cards
- You may spend 1, 3 or 5 favours on Altars and Alms-Houses: the Church to train Persuasive (~20 CP per favour)
- Make it clear that no one leaves the Game gains
2 x Extraordinary Implication and 
150 x Cryptic Clue + Someone is Coming for 2 favours. - Secure the artists' work provides
2 x Sworn Statement, 
6 x Dubious Testimony and Someone is Coming - Firecrackers in the thurible! provides
400 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 
7 x Tale of Terror!! and Someone is Coming for 2 favours. - With a certain statue you may gain
2 x Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre for 4 favours - A different statue provides
4 x Strong-Backed Labour for 1 favour. - Yet another statue provides
900 x Whispered Hint and lab research for 1 favour. - Possibly the same statue provides
150 x Nodule of Warm Amber and lab research for 2 favours. - Feed a vicar to your plant and spend 1 favour in order to increase
Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant among other things - Maybe she has become virtuous allows you to cash in 1 favour for 200 x Nevercold Brass Sliver and
250 x Jade Fragment
Constables[edit]
Storylets
- A conversation with the Commissioner of Police gives
140 x Fistful of Surface Currency for 1 favour - A longer conversation with the Commissioner of Police provides
1 x Human Ribcage for 5 favours - Ask for your good sense and reasoned judgement to be recognised gives a
Special Dispensation for 7 favours
Cards
- Train
Watchful with the constables at Court and Cell: the Constables for 1, 3 or 5 favours (~20 CP per favour) - Finger a scapegoat provides
3 x Volume of Collated Research, 
25 x Proscribed Material and Someone is Coming - Get word to the Smuggler provides 1 x Extraordinary Implication,
2 x Partial Map, 25 x Proscribed Material and Someone is Coming
Criminals[edit]
Storylets
- Trade favours with criminals in the Flit gives
1200 x Moon-Pearl for 3 favours - Acquire human remains from the criminals in the Flit gives
3 x Human Arm for 5 favours - Offer an unrepentant ex-convict who won't be missed provide 5 x Tribute for 5 favours.
- 1 favour is needed to Seek a thieves' cache
- 5 favours is needed to heist The Balustraded House in Elderwick
Cards
- The Alleys of London: the Criminals allows you to train
Shadowy by spending 1, 3 or 5 favours (~20 CP per favour) - An Implausible Penance gives several choices for cashing in Favours: Criminals
- Give evidence provides
1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844, 1 x Sworn Statement, 2 x Tale of Terror!! and Someone is Coming for 2 favours - A grass provides quick release from New Newgate Prison and gains
A Turncoat for all favours - Alert the Gracious Widow to these complaints spends 6 favours to reduce
In Corporate Debt by 3 CP - Options on Demander for a day provide
Nodule of Deep Amber for 1 favour - Fencing certain coins provide
20 x First City Coin for 3 favours and a cycle of 
Counting the Days - Humbug! provide 220 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey for 1 favour.
- Inquire about a 'special harvest' provide
4 x Knob of Scintillack for 1 favour - Make use of this new development provide
7 x Ostentatious Diamond for 1 favour - Receive an offering from the Clay Highwayman provides
1 x Magnificent Diamond and 
Opening a Bundle of Oddities for 2 favours - Perhaps she is in danger provides 180 x Shard of Glim and 180 x Nodule of Deep Amber for 1 favour and 30 Jade Fragments
The Docks[edit]
Storylets
- A round of well-intentioned backslapping gives 420 x Shard of Glim for 1 favour
- Hire a porter from the docks Spend 3 favours and
50 x Piece of Rostygold for 
7 x Crate of Expedition Supplies - Offer the labour of a zailor Spend 5 favours to gain Tribute
- For 5 favours you may go on a heist in The home of an Admiral's Widow
- Watch a parade to spend 3 favours for
2 x Esteem of the Guild
Cards
- By the River's Side: the Docks Spend 1, 3 or 5 favours to train
Dangerous (~20 CP per favour) - Convince the residents to pay their protection fees to the urchins instead Gain
5 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap, 
5 x Whisper-Satin Scrap, 
Silk Scrap and Someone is Coming for all favours - Settle in the Widow's favour Gain Jade Fragment,
1 x Favour in High Places, Someone is Coming and a few scraps. - Work long into the night forging a compromise solution provides 1 x Strong-Backed Labour, 250 x Jade Fragment, Someone is Coming and opening a Bundle of Oddities (up to 60) for 1 favour and connected: The Widow
- Ambush Smugglers Spend 3 favours and Strong-Backed Labour for Making Waves and
750 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879 - Assist an out-of-work Gondolier Spend 1 favour for
10 x Certifiable Scrap
The Great Game[edit]
Storylets
- An elliptical conversation in Wolfstack Docks gives 210 x Cryptic Clue for 1 favour
- Ask the Muffled Intriguer to broker your Stolen Kisses to convert
25 x Stolen Kiss for 1 favour
Cards
- Spend 1, 3 or 5 favours on Whispers from the Surface: The Great Game to train Watchful (~20 CP per favour)
- Everyone deserves a second chance provides 4 second chances,
3 x An Identity Uncovered! and Someone is Coming for 2 favours
Hell[edit]
Storylets
- A soothing sight in The Forgotten Quarter gives 420 x Nevercold Brass Sliver for 1 favour
- Devils and art in court provides 25 CP Inspired... for 1 favour.
Cards
- On Burning Shadows: the Devils of London you may spend 1, 3 or 5 favours to train Watchful (~20 CP per favour)
- A consideration for services rendered provides an opportunity to cash out 1 Favours: Hell for 180 x Nevercold Brass Sliver and 1 x Extraordinary Implication. Also gives Someone is Coming
- Alert the vicar gives 500 x Foxfire Candle Stub, 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip and Someone is Coming
- Call in favours from Hell with the right statue gives
1 x Brass Ring or 
8 x Muscaria Brandy for 2 favours - Convince the urchin to keep his soul gives
2 x Aeolian Scream and 
30 x Maniac's Prayer and Someone is Coming
Revolutionaries[edit]
Storylets
- Trade favours with revolutionaries in the Flit gives 315 x Proscribed Material,
Advancing the Liberation of Night (+1 CP) and 
Suspicion (+2 CP) for 3 favours - The people's art in Court provides 35 CP Inspired... and 1 CP Suspicion for 1 favour.
Cards
- Train Dangerous on Gunpowder and Zeal: the Revolutionaries with 1, 3 or 5 favours (~20 CP per favour)
- Convince the Revolutionaries to find somewhere else provides 800 x Nodule of Deep Amber, 5 x Nodule of Warm Amber and Someone is Coming
- Call in favours from Revolutionaries with a statue in Ealing Gardens provides 625 x Proscribed Material for 4 favours
Rubbery Men[edit]
Storylets
- A curious knot in The Forgotten Quarter gives 420 x Nodule of Deep Amber for 1 favour
Cards
- Accept a damp gift on the rubbery faction card Cashes in all Favours: Rubbery men for Nodule of Deep Amber
- Convince the Rubbery Men to move on provides 210 x Proscribed Material and Someone is Coming for 2 favours.
- Finger the guilty party provides 550 x Piece of Rostygold, 1 x Sworn Statement and Someone is Coming for 2 favours
- Save the Tomb-Colonist! provides
1 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap and Silk Scrap for all favours - Call in favours from Rubbery Men in Ealing Gardens gives
1 x Nodule of Trembling Amber for 2 favours - Direct your creditors to the Tentacled Entrepreneur reduces In Corporate Debt by 3 CP for 6 favours
Society[edit]
Storylets
- A boon from a Lady-in-Waiting in the Shuttered Palace gives
210 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882 for 1 favour - Curry favour with the Duchess in the Shuttered Palace gives
50 CP Connected: The Duchess for 1 favour - Exchange a considerable quantity of Connections for London Street Signs in court gives
5 x London Street Sign and Suspicion (+1 CP) for 3 favours - '...I have a few friends yet in Society...' reduces Scandal on average by 4.9 CP in the Tomb-Colonies
- Arrange the visit of an respected noblewoman provides 5 x Tribute for 5 favours.
- Assist acquaintances entangled in bureaucracy provides Jade Fragment for 1 favour.
- You have rivals in court provides 30 CP Inspired... for 1 favour.
Cards
- You may spend 1, 3 or 5 favours to train Persuasive on Park and Palace: Society (~20 CP per favour)
- Break him out! provides 500 x Nevercold Brass Sliver,
6 x Memory of Distant Shores and Someone is Coming for 2 favours. - Sneak the old gentleman out provides 350 x Cryptic Clue, 100 x Silk Scrap, Opening a Bundle of Oddities (up to ~80) and Someone is Coming
- "The company I keep speaks for me." allows 1 favour to be spent for Making Waves
- Arrange the services of a Titled Surveyor reduces In Corporate Debt by 2 CP for 3 favours
- Pursue a Scheme: encourage the great and the good to attend your Salon allows you to gain Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon for 3 favours.
Tomb-Colonies[edit]
Storylets
- The dead men's chest in The Forgotten Quarter gives
210 x Primordial Shriek for 1 favour
Cards
- You may raise Dangerous on the Bandages and Dust: The Tomb-Colonies card with 1, 3 or 5 favours (~20 CP per favour)
- Discreetly inform the family about the baronet's communication provides 2 x Ostentatious Diamond,
20 x Bottle of Morelways 1872, 250 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882 and Someone is Coming for 2 favours. - Save the Rubbery Man spends all favours to get 1 x Magnificent Diamond, Nodule of Deep Amber and some other stuff.
- A statue in Ealing gardens allows you to Call in favours from Tomb Colonists to gain 1 x Magnificent Diamond,
5 x Sapphire and 
2 x Venom-Ruby for 2 favours - Trade your Collection of Curiosities for five Puzzling Maps and 1 favour allows you to sell a
Collection of Curiosities for items worth 65
Urchins[edit]
Storylets
- Trade favours with urchins in the Flit gives 25 Certifiable Scrap and Opening a Bundle of Oddities for 3 favours
Cards
- Spending Favours on The Roof-Tops: Urchins allows you to train Shadowy for 1, 3 or 5 favours (~20 CP per favour)
- Advise the girl to return to the Widow gives Jade Fragment, An Identity Uncovered! and Someone is Coming for all your favours.
- Take the Devil's side provides 550 x Nevercold Brass Sliver and 5 x Tale of Terror!! + Someone is Coming for 2 favours
- Sabotage the cannon provides
Rat on a String and Bottle of Morelways 1872 + Someone is Coming and consumes all favours. - Use a statue to Call in favours from Urchins provides 1 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap and opening a Bundle of Oddities for 4 favours
- With an Orphanage you may Pursue a Scheme: offer some Urchins a place in your Orphanage
The Widow[edit]
Storylets
- A meeting with one of the Widow's representatives gives 240 x Jade Fragment for 120 CP
- Sneak a sip of the brandy reduces
Wounds by 3.1 CP by average for 1.4 CP Suspicion and 9 CP Connected: The Widow
Cards
- Arrange for the girl to return to the urchin-gangs gives
2 x Storm-Threnody 5 x Maniac's Prayer and Someone is Coming for 500 CP - Cheat the Widow With 5 favours: Criminals this provides 2800 x Shard of Glim for 120 CP
- Make an agreement favouring the dock-gangs provides
1 x Puzzling Map, 1 x Strong-Backed Labour, Opening a Bundle of Oddities and Someone is Coming for 500 CP
The Duchess[edit]
Storylets
- '...I flatter myself the Duchess was fond of me...' reduces Scandal by 3 CP while in Exile for 10 CP
Cards
- Trade on your connections gains
1 x The Burglar's Progress for 60 CP while on a Heist
