Favours: The Docks

You've done somebody a good turn. Now, they're in your debt.

Favours: The Docks is a Favours quality.

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It is impossible to raise this quality beyond the cap of 7 under any circumstance. Excess from actions raising the quality is wasted after hitting the cap!

Notable sources

Source	Action	Location/Card	Cost/Requirements	Number of Favours	Notes
Professions	The Rat-Catcher's reward	London	4 actions, Must be a Rat-Catcher	1	Once per week, after Time, the Healer
	The Stalker's Reward		4 actions, Must be an Stalker	1
	The Monster-Hunter's Labours		4 actions, Must be a Monster-Hunter	1
Storylets	Rescue the crew	Mutton Island	24 Actions	1	See Time Passing on Mutton Island (Guide)
	Meet some zailors	Mrs Plenty's Carnival	Less than 5 x Renown	1
	Kill the Pinewood Shark	Parabolan Base-Camp		1	See Parabolan Hunting (Guide)
	Confide in the Chandleress	Dept. of Menace Eradication	-5 CP Dangerous	1	The Airs of London 96-100
	Graduate Pupil Fate Carousel	Sinning Jenny's Finishing School	12 Actions	0-1	See Sinning Jenny's Finishing School (Guide)
	Sell a Soothe & Cooper Long-Box	The Blind Helmsman	1 x Soothe & Cooper Long-Box	3
Cards	Visit him in his lodgings	A Visit ➤ the Soldier	Acquainted	1
	Wade in with fists flying	A Riot in Spite!		0-1	Early-game only
	Tip off the ship's captain	A mission from the Cheesemonger	An Agent of the Cheesemonger 4-5	1	Early-game only
	Stick to something stately	The Last Dance		1	Rare Success, see Attending a Party (Guide)
	Sign on to guard a glim-ship	An evening's zailing	3 actions	1	Early-game only
	Accept a proposition from a smuggler	The Windward Tower: the Matter of the Decommissioned Steamer	Removes the card.	1	Repeatable if you move in and loan out, repeatedly.
	Buy a round at the Rusty Tramp	By the River's Side: the Docks	10 x Piece of Rostygold	1
	Find a hard-working home for your Mark of Credit Page	Secrets and Spending	14 x Counting the Days and a Mark of Credit Page	1
	Teach her to listen	What will you do with your Taciturn Mynah?	Taciturn Mynah	1

Notable uses

Source	Action	Location	Cost	Reward	Value/Notes
Storylets	A round of well-intentioned backslapping	Wolfstack Docks	1 x Favours	420 x Shard of Glim	4.2
	The Home of an Admiral's Widow	Planning a Heist (Hub)	3 x Favours	1 x Stolen Correspondence 2 x Legal Document 3 x Justificande Coin 5 x Map Scrap	24.55 See On a Heist (Guide)
	Hire a porter from the docks	Base-Camp	3 x Favours 50 x Piece of Rostygold	7 x Crate of Expedition Supplies	See Forgotten Quarter Expeditions (Guide)
	A Silver-Eyed Zailor	Jericho Locks	4 x Favours	2 x Uncanny Incunabulum 2 x Knob of Scintillack	25 and 5 or 10 x Hinterland Scrip
	Watch a parade	Jericho Locks	5 x Favours	2 x Esteem of the Guild	See Canal Cruising in Jericho Locks (Guide)
	Offer the labour of a zailor	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	Brawl with street fighters	By the River's Side: the Docks	1 x Favours	~20 CP Dangerous per favour	If 0-30 Dangerous
	Knives forty feet above deck		3 x Favours		If 31-70 Dangerous
	Fencing lessons with a Dashing Captain		5 x Favours		If 71+ Dangerous
	Assist an out-of-work Gondolier	Canal Workers on the Upper River	1 x Favours	10 x Certifiable Scrap	See Certifiable Scraps (Guide)
	Work long into the night forging a compromise solution	The Acacia and the Butterfly	1 x Favours -100 CP Connected: The Widow	1 x Strong-Backed Labour 250 x Jade Fragment 1 CP Someone Is Coming Opening a Bundle of Oddities	5 plus Bundle
	Settle in the Widow's favour	The Acacia and the Butterfly	all Favours	500-1000 Jade Fragment 1 x Favour in High Places 1 x Whisper-Satin Scrap 1 x Surface-Silk Scrap 1 CP Someone Is Coming	13.10 plus Jade Jade depends on Favours spent
	Ambush Smugglers	The Tower of Knives: Difficulties at a Smoky Flophouse	3 x Favours 1 x Strong-Backed Labour	750 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879 12 CP Making Waves	5 Requires A Person of Some Importance -
	Share a drink with a Zailor	Under the Statue at Moulin	4 x Favours	2 x Puzzling Map or Rare Success 1 x Salt Steppe Atlas	25 or on Rare Success 62.5 or 125 x Assortment of Khaganian Coinage Requires 22 Moulin Development
	Convince the residents to pay their protection fees to the urchins instead	Youthful high spirits	all Favours	250-750 Silk Scrap 5 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap 5 x Whisper-Satin Scrap 1 CP Someone Is Coming	15 plus Silk Silk depends on Favours spent