Faction: The Church

Theology in London, down in the earth among the devils, is a tricky business. The Church has learnt to adapt.

Related Cards and Items

Opportunity Card

Altars and Alms-Houses: the Church

Faction Item

Tiny Jewelled Reliquary

Connected Pet

Tell-Tale Beetle

Conflict Cards

Related Qualities

Favours

Favours: The Church

Notable Favour Sources

Source	Action	Location/Card	Cost/Requirements	Number of Favours	Notes
Professions	The Campaigner's reward	London	4 actions, Must be a Campaigner	1	Once per week, after Time, the Healer
Storylets	Hand over your hou... snake	The Labyrinth of Tigers	1 x Hound of Heaven	3	See Breeding Monsters (Guide)
	Meet some churchmen of your acquaintance	Mrs Plenty's Carnival	Less than 5 x Renown	1
	Graduate Pupil Fate Carousel	Sinning Jenny's Finishing School	12 Actions	0-1	See Sinning Jenny's Finishing School (Guide)
Cards	Multiple options	Altars and Alms-Houses: the Church	10 x Piece of Rostygold or An Indulgence from the Rat Church FATE, 5 x Rat on a String	1
	A disgraceful spectacle	A day at the races		1
	Remind the writers of their holy purpose	A Day with God's Editors	1 x Tale of Terror!!	1
	Oho! Ripe rats!	The Departed	-2 CP Sympathetic about Ratly Concerns	1
	Tip off the priest	An Assignment from the Cheesemonger	An Agent of the Cheesemonger 1-3	1	Early in the storyline only
	Write a sharp note and send the flowers back	A devil's taken a shine to you	Renown: Hell 5	1	Loses 1 x Favours: Hell, early in the storyline only
	Provide a sermon for the table	Attend a dinner at St Fiacre's	5 x Romantic Notion	1	Must equip A Seat at the Bishop's Table to draw the card.
	Multiple options	A Jurisdictional Dispute	The Very Teeth of St George! or Genesis of a Diocese 400 FATE	1	Drawn in Upper River
	Pay for postage on a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury	God's Editors at Burrow-Infra-Mump	10 x Fistful of Surface Currency	1	Drawn in Upper River
	Deliver a lecture on London's History	Under the Statue at Moulin	An appropriate statue, appropriate Monograph study and Renown: The Church 10	1	Drawn in Moulin
	Find a decent home for your Mark of Credit Page	Secrets and Spending	14 x Counting the Days and a Mark of Credit Page	1
	Let a Conniving Vicar use your beetle for dramatic effect	What will you do with your Tell-Tale Beetle?	Tell-Tale Beetle	1
	Any choice on	A card drawn through being a Shepherd FATE	50 x Soul or 5 x Infernal Contract or Both or 1000 x Soul, 100 x Infernal Contract	0-1,1, or 1-2	With Shepherd's Timepiece FATE

Notable Favour Uses

Source	Action	Location	Cost	Reward	Value/Notes
Storylets	An arrangement with the Vicar-General	The Shuttered Palace	1 x Favours	420 x Foxfire Candle Stub	4.2
	Call on the help of the Church	The Empress' Court		35 CP Inspired...	If Working on...
	'...I have written to the Bishop of St Fiacre's...'	Tomb-Colonies		-6 CP Scandal
	A Vigorous Vicar	Jericho Locks	4 x Favours	2 x Ratty Reliquary 2 x Apostate's Psalm	30
	Offer a plump vicar	The Labyrinth of Tigers	7 x Favours	11-23 x Tribute based on Offering Favours to the Court	20 x Tribute can be cashed in for a 62.5 item
Cards	Take dinner with a Cheerful Curate	Altars and Alms-Houses: the Church	1 x Favours	~20 CP Persuasive per favour	If 0-30 Persuasive
	Take lessons at the Curates' College		3 x Favours		If 31-70 Persuasive
	Attend a private lecture given by the Bishop of Southwark		5 x Favours		If 71+ Persuasive
	Feed a vicar to your plant	Your plant is singing	1 x Favours	10 x Whispered Hint 1 x Appalling Secret 1 CP Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant	0.25
	Maybe she has become virtuous	Overly alluring?	1 x Favours	200 x Nevercold Brass Sliver 250 x Jade Fragment	4.5
	Make it clear that no one leaves the Game	A contact in the Great Game has a tale for you	2 x Favours	2 x Extraordinary Implication 150 x Cryptic Clue 1 CP Someone Is Coming	8 Conflict card: If 5 x Favours and 5 x Favours
	Secure the artists' work	The kaleidoscopic church		2 x Sworn Statement 6 x Dubious Testimony 1 CP Someone Is Coming	8 Conflict card: If 5 x Favours and 5 x Favours
	Firecrackers in the thurible!	Brimstone or frankincense?		400 x Nevercold Brass Sliver 7 x Tale of Terror!! 1 CP Someone Is Coming	7.5 Conflict card: If 5 x Favours and 5 x Favours
	Call in favours from the Church	Under the Statue at Jericho Locks	1 x Favours	5 x Strong-Backed Labour	12.5 Statue to Bishop of Southwark
	Converse with a few retired scholars		1 x Favours	1000 x Whispered Hint 5 x Expertise of the Second City	10 Statue to self
	Trade on your academic and theological connections		2 x Favours	180 x Nodule of Warm Amber	18 Statue of Dean
	Call in favours from the Church		4 x Favours	2 x Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre	25 Statue to Bishop of St. Fiacre's
	Call in favours from the Church	Under the Statue at the Hurlers	4 x Favours	10 x Volume of Collated Research	25

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