Corresponding Sounder

Category: Great Game (Notable Sources)
(0.10)	Well-Placed Pawn
0.50 / 1	Final Breath
0.50 / 1	Moves in the Great Game
12.50 / 25	Vital Intelligence
37.50	Copper Cipher Ring
(312.50)	Corresponding Sounder
1,562.50	A Seat at the Board
5	Vienna Opening
50	Epaulette Mate
50	Queen Mate
125	Stalemate
125	Much-Needed Gap
-	Buttered Chess-Piece
-	Intercepted Cablegram
-	Opening Novelty

One end of a telegraph circuit. There's no connection for a wire. But every so often it will chatter out a message on its own.
These can be found in the Khanate, through certain difficult machinations.

Corresponding Sounder is a Great Game item.

See here for a list of how to obtain this item, or click here to show them.

It cannot be bought or sold at The Echo Bazaar!.

See here for a list of pages unlocked or locked by this item, or click here to show them.

See Great Game Grinding (Guide) for information on grinding this item.

Your Corresponding Sounder

The device is one half of a telegraph circuit – without wires. Sometimes it rattles out a message, spelling encoded secrets from distant shores.

Options:

Sell the Sounder to spies

Spoiler ID: 251889
Unlocked with 1 x Corresponding Sounder
Locked with Favours: The Great Game 7

Success

An innocent conversation in a park bench
- You've lost 1 x Corresponding Sounder
- You've gained 1 x Much-Needed Gap
- You've gained 5 x Vital Intelligence
- You've gained 5 x Emetic Revelation
- You've gained 25 x Discriminating Aconite
- You've gained 120 x Vision of the Surface
- You've gained 1 x Favours: The Great Game (up to 7)
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Crack open the Sounder and capture its operating principle

Spoiler

Unlocked with

1 x Mirrorcatch Box,

1 x Corresponding Sounder

Challenge information

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 10 (50% base) || 6 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 7 - high-risk (20%) || 8 - high-risk (30%) || 9 - tough (40%) || 10 - very chancy (50%) || 11 - chancy (60%) || 12 - modest (70%) || 13 - very modest (80%) || 14 - low-risk (90%) || 15 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Carefully done

You've lost 1 x Corresponding Sounder
You've gained 1 x Violant-filled Mirrorcatch Box
You've lost 1 x Mirrorcatch Box
You've gained 5000 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
You've gained 2 x Whirring Contraption
You've gained 500 x Khaganian Lightbulb
You've gained 2 x Crackling Device
You've gained 100 x Flask of Abominable Salts

Failure

Wrenched open

You've lost 1 x Corresponding Sounder
You've gained 1 x Violant-filled Mirrorcatch Box
You've lost 1 x Mirrorcatch Box

Mirrorcatch Box Overview
Colour	Location	Storylet	Action
Empty	Jericho Locks	Inside the Fiddler's Scarlet	Acquire a rarity
	The Magistracy of the Evenlode	Choose a case	(Side) for the defendant in a civil suit of Gondoliers against a Society Matron
	The Waswood		Reach towards the shore ( Airs 0-49, rare success)
	Ealing Gardens/ Jericho Locks	Enlighten/ Adjust the Lighting in Ealing Gardens/ Jericho Locks	Give a speech in Ealing Gardens/ Jericho Locks (rare success)
		Empty a Mirrorcatch Box^[1]	Peligin, Violant, Apocyan, Viric, Cosmogone, Irrigo, Gant
Peligin	The Magistracy of the Evenlode	The Light-In-Exile	Fill a mirrorcatch box with peligin light
Peligin		Oneiric Pearl	Barter with a Listless Pearl-Diver^[2]
Violant		Corresponding Sounder	Crack open the Sounder and capture its operating principle
Apocyan	The Pillared Sea	Drowning	Blink, and bring some apocyan light with you
Viric	Viric Jungle	Attend to the Dreamer	Fill an empty Mirrorcatch box with Viric
Cosmogone	The Dome of Scales	Perched on Top of the Dome	Fill your Mirrorcatch Box with the light of the cosmogone sun
Irrigo	Cave of the Nadir	A pause for refreshment	A lunchbox?
Irrigo	Rat Market ( Rat-Season: Dimmest-Dark, Freeze-and-Fall, or Lying-Longing^[3])	The Maundering Rat's Stall	The Irrigo-Filled Mirrorcatch Box
Gant	Khan's Heart	All Gant	Open a mirrorcatch box
Gant	Rat Market ( Tempestuous Demand: 1 or 2^[4])	The Shrivelled Celebrant	Purchase a Gant-Filled Mirrorcatch Box^[2]
Sun-Stamped	Cut with Moonlight FATE	The Alleys of London: the Criminals	Purchase a box of sunlight^[2]
Sun-Stamped	Cut with Moonlight FATE	Park and Palace: Society	Buy a box of sunlight at Meridian House^[2]
Neathoscope	The Museum of Prelapsarian History	The Inorganic Sciences Wing	Commission the manufacture of a kaleidoscopic device of your own
↑ Using the boxes where they are required will usually also return an empty box to you. ↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Does not require an empty Mirrorcatch Box. ↑ (currently Rise-and-Rake) ↑ (currently 4)