Certifiable Scraps (Guide)

Early MYN Content and Onwards

So you have decided you need some Certifiable Scraps.

How to obtain Scraps

This section is roughly sorted from most profitable to least profitable.

Urchin Favours

3 Favours: Urchins can be traded for 25 Scraps at Trade favours with urchins, an Action from Call in favours in the Flit, a Storylet in The Flit. For sources of the Favours, see Category:Favours: Urchins Gain. Generally speaking, though, they are obtained either through luck in drawing cards at 1 Favour/action or through grinding at about 1 Favour for 5 actions (end-game).

Lodgings cards

Almost all Lodgings cards have an option that gains Certifiable Scraps.

Card	Action	Scraps
The Lofty Tower: the Potential of Premises at the Bazaar	Engage in commerce	4
The Tower of Sun and Moon: a Reservation at the Royal Bethlehem Hotel	Investigate the guests	3
The Western Tower: a Guest Room at the Brass Embassy	Find out more about the soulless	3
The Tower of Eyes: Behind Closed Doors at a Handsome Townhouse	Do a little promenading yourself	2
The Windward Tower: the Matter of the Decommissioned Steamer	The cautious contact	2
The Heron Tower: Events at a Lair in the Marshes	Hunt down a huge lizard	1
	Peril and pyjamas	1
The High Castle: What Occurs in a Rooftop Shack	A stroll with a sack	1
The Sleepless Tower: Disturbances at a Cottage by the Observatory	Spores and fangs	1
The Tower of Knives: Difficulties at a Smoky Flophouse	Rough camaraderie	1
The Tower of Sleeping Giants: The Secrets of the Rooms above a Bookshop	Examine the stock	1
The Tower of Sparrows: Vice and Virtue in a Gambling Den	Settle down to a game of cards	1

Miscellanea

• Discordant Ripples (Frozen) 6, an Autofire Card in Fallen London, must be unlocked in the Hurlers (see Guide), gives 10 scraps
• Chance of 5 scraps from Accept his gift (Scrounged Goods), an Action from Scrounged Goods, a Card in Far Beyond the Cordon (50% Luck challenge)
• Assist an out-of-work Gondolier, an Action from Canal Workers on the Upper River, a Card in Upper River, requires the Renown 25 item of Faction: The Docks and trades 1 x Favours: The Docks for 10 scraps.
• Release a bat into the cloud, an Action from A Parliament of Bats, a Card in Fallen London, can earn 3 scraps.
• FATE: A particular choice in A Trade in Faces unlocks an option in The Curt Relicker and Montgomery are Moving Quietly Past which gives 1-4 x Certifiable Scraps and -3 CP Suspicion.
• FATE: A particular decision in the final choice on The Blemmigan Affair (Story) adds an option for Court and Cell: the Constables giving 1-2 x Certifiable Scraps and up to ( Watchful/3) x Proscribed Material.

Early-game stories

These stories are a one-time source of different amounts of scraps each.

• Your first time picking Identified with a School: earns 4 scraps.
• Befriending a Rooftop Urchin: 8-16 scraps, depending on your decisions.
• Advising the Loquacious Vicar: 8 scraps.
• Collecting Clues for the Clay Coalman: 8-14 scraps, depending on your decisions.

Suboptimal grinds

Because we believe in publishing negative results.

(And want to save you the time calculating those grinds on your own.)

Selling Drownie toys

You may be tempted to play Devices and Desires to get toys and sell them for scraps. However, this is not particularly worth it:

• you can only get one toy per trip
• the three basic toys require at least 5 actions each to get and sell for 5 scraps (≤ 1 scrap per action).
• the advanced toy requires the 3 basic toys plus another trip (20 actions total) and sells for 10 scraps, i.e. 0.5 scraps per action.

Statues

• Receive an offering from the Clay Highwayman, an Action from Under the Statue at the Magistracy, a Card in The Magistracy of the Evenlode, allows trading 2 Favours: Criminals for 1 scrap and a chance at a further scrap from the bundle.
• Set a Watch beside the Statue of Yourself, an Action from Under the Statue at the Magistracy, a Card in The Magistracy of the Evenlode, gives 3 scraps if you fail the challenge. To get on average 1 scrap per action, you need a success chance of at most 66% ( Dangerous ≤220).

Gambling analysis

Each Relicker card has three options. Each is a 50% Luck challenge.

• Recertify some scraps - either gain 5 scraps or lose 4
• Recertify an armful of scraps - either gain 10 scraps or lose 8
• Recertify a double-armful of scraps - either gain 20 scraps or lose 18

Generally speaking, the latter two seem to gain about 1 scrap per action on average, while still remaining a gamble. The first one gains 0.5 scraps per action on average.

Uses

Affluent Photographer

A minor use for scraps is trading 2 Scraps for 1 x Trailing the Affluent Photographer, if you cannot or don't want to ask a friend for help.

Relickers

Most importantly, scraps can be traded with Relickers for items. The table of rewards is below.

	Stats	Capering	Coquettish	Curt	Shivering	Sell value
5  Scraps	25,	100/25 Soul	200/50 Silk Scrap	50/12 Proscribed Material	100/25 Primordial Shriek	~1.2
15  Scraps	50,	80/20 Amanita Sherry	80/20 Surface-Silk Scrap	80/20 Inkling of Identity	80/20 Maniac's Prayer	~5-5.25
30  Scraps	75,	42/10 Brilliant Soul	42/10 Whisper-Satin Scrap	42/10 Scrap of Incendiary Gossip	42/10 Correspondence Plaque	~13-14
100  Scraps	100,	20/5 Muscaria Brandy	20/5 Thirsty Bombazine Scrap	20/5 An Identity Uncovered!	20/5 Aeolian Scream	~32
120  Scraps	125	3 Brass Ring	3 Puzzle-Damask Scrap	3 Blackmail Material	3 Storm-Threnody	37.50
160  Scraps	150	1 Bright Brass Skull	1 Parabola-Linen Scrap	1 Diary of the Dead	1 Night-Whisper	60 - 62.50
680  Scraps	175	1 Coruscating Soul	1 Scrap of Ivory Organza	1 Intriguer's Compendium	1 Starstone Demark	312.50
3200  Scraps	200	1 Reported Location of a One-Time Prince of Hell	1 Veils-Velvet Scrap	1 Rumourmonger's Network	1 Breath of the Void	1560

What not to use scraps for

Unless you are very early in the game, by the time you manage to assemble the appropriate number of scraps, you will probably have cheaper means to obtain most items in the above table. Specifically, items up to tier 6 (the "160 Scraps" row on the table) have better sources. However, some of the tier 7 and tier 8 items in the game are almost exclusively only available for scraps, namely Veils-Velvet Scrap (unless you want to study the Discordance) and Breath of the Void (which can alternatively be obtained in Moulin), both of which are needed for the Treasures branch of London's Marrow.