Calling in Favours (Guide)
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Early MYN Content and Onwards |
Wiki note: See also Raising Favours (Guide)
You've earned some favour with the various factions? Now, what to do with them? Perhaps you want to Call in some favours!
Fixed storylets (Calling in Favours)[edit]
Within London[edit]
Notes:
- Generally, 1 Favour is worth 420 pence of saleable items within London - the notable exception being The Flit's storylet. However, as you need to spend another action to call them in, the actual efficiency is lower.
In the Hinterlands[edit]
Currently all of these actions are under Call in Favours at Jericho Locks in 
Jericho Locks
| Action | Favours / Requirement |
Gain | EPA[1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Invertebrate Factor |  4 x Rubbery Men
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(6[2]) | |
| A Composed Composer |  4 x Bohemians
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(6[2]) | |
| A Silver-Eyed Zailor |  4 x The Docks
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6-7.62[3] | |
| Meet with a Rookie Constable |  4 x Constables /
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6 | |
| An Illustrated Novelist |  4 x The Great Game /
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6.01E or 12Scrip[4] |
| A Grinning Villain |  4 x Criminals /
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(6[2]) |
| An Ambivalent Scion |  4 x Society /
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6 | |
| A Vigorous Vicar |  4 x The Church /
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6-7.6[5] |
| A Mostly-Intact Professor |  4 x Tomb-Colonies /
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6 | |
| A Hopeless Pickpocket |  4 x Urchins /
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6-7.6[5] |
| A Black-Clad Archivist |  4 x Revolutionaries /
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6-7.6[5] | |
| A Glabrous Nymph |  4 x Hell /
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(6[2]) |
- ↑ Assuming the Favours were acquired at 1 action per favour without any additional costs or benefits (e.g. connected pets). Discounting Menace gains.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Using assumed value of skeleton parts
- ↑ With the high end requiring the Rat Market and Tinned Ham arbitrage
- ↑ With Echos requiring Tinned Ham arbitrage
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 High end requires the Rat Market
Other fixed storylets[edit]
Favours to tribute (5.68 EPA to 7.08 EPA)[edit]
See Money-Making#Cards for details.
Requires access to Offering Tribute to the Court of the Wakeful Eye
- Offer the labour of a zailor Docks
- Offer the talents of an artist Bohemians
- Offer a plump vicar Church
- Arrange the visit of a respected noblewoman Society
- Offer an unrepentant ex-convict who won't be missed Criminals
Forgotten Quarter Expeditions[edit]
See here
- Hire a porter from the docks is the best option to gain supplies
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 for less than 3 EPA.
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]
The Church[edit]
Constables[edit]
Criminals[edit]
The Docks[edit]
Fingerkings[edit]
| Source | Action | Location | Cost | Reward | Value/Notes |
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| Storylets | Claim the aid of Fingerkings | Lost in Strange Lands |  2 x Favours
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 6 x Parabolan Scouting
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See Parabolan Hunting (Guide) |
The Great Game[edit]
Hell[edit]
Revolutionaries[edit]
Rubbery Men[edit]
Society[edit]
Tomb-Colonies[edit]
Urchins[edit]
Options sorted by Connected type[edit]
Benthic[edit]
The Duchess[edit]
| Source | Action | Location/Card | Cost/Requirements | Connected CP Cost | Reward | Notes |
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| Storylets | '...I flatter myself the Duchess was fond of me...' |  Disgraced exile in the Tomb-Colonies
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 Connected: The Duchess 5
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-10 | -3 CP  Scandal
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| Cards | Trade on your connections | A Talkative Cat | Connected: The Duchess 20
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-3 |  1 x The Burglar's Progress
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Drawn while On a Heist (Guide). |
The Masters of the Bazaar[edit]
| Source | Action | Location/Card | Additional Cost/Requirements | Connected CP Cost | Reward | Notes |
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| Storylets | Paying the Master's dues |  Spite
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 A Turncoat 4
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-1 | A Turncoat is gone. Aligns your  A Power in Waiting - to A Guardian of the Realm
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| '...I have, with some trepidation, contacted a hooded acquaintance...' |  A letter to an old flame
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 Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 1
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-1 | -10 CP Scandal
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| Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Curator |  The Bone Market
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Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 3,  Skeleton in Progress 10 - 90,  Skeleton: Skulls exactly 1,  Skeleton: Arms exactly 2,  Skeleton: Legs exactly 2,  Skeleton: Wings exactly 2
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N/A | Sets Skeleton in Progress to 300 - Curator
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See Assembling a Skeleton (Guide) | |
| Call upon a higher power | When you get ARRESTED! | Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 5,  A Criminal Record: < 5
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-15 |  Suspicion is gone. +5 CP  Making Waves
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Prevents your A Criminal Record: from increasing
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Summerset[edit]
| Source | Action | Location/Card | Additional Cost/Requirements | Connected CP Cost | Reward | Notes |
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| Storylets | Read out your Tales of Terror at a Summerset College Senior Common Room | Your Inventory,  Tale of Terror!!
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50 x Tale of Terror!!,  Connected: Summerset 3
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-5 |
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