"Did it have ears like this?"

The Rat is positively giddy at your recountings, especially the part about fungal poetry. When you get to the bit about hunting the giant rat, it starts asking pointed questions. It seems unfazed by the hunt itself, but mortally disappointed that it wasn't a particular rat against which it held a grudge. "Too many rats don't know the value of wisdom, an' thassa fact."

reward is 2x partial map

this open up ANOTHER storylet relevant to ambitions. i've already started mine, so it probably has an unlock condition of having begun one of the four ambitions. i'll post this along with text in another comment. also seems to have unlocked another storylet related to MYN, requiring advancing one of the MYN stories to 3 or higher