Favours: Urchins

ID: 129665

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

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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 Trickster's reward	London	4 actions, Must be a Trickster	1	Once per week, after Time, the Healer
Storylets	Share what you've learned with (an Urchin)	Spite	Takes 14 actions.	1	See A Boxful of Intrigue (Guide)
	Restore the Honey-Mazed Bear to his rightful owners	Ealing Gardens	Honey-Mazed Bear	1
	Meet some urchins	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	In the shadow of All Christs Spire	The Roof-Tops: Urchins	1 x Lucky Weasel	1
	Warn the urchins	The Kidsman recruits		1	Drawn only with Shadowy 69-106
	Tip the squatters off	An Implausible Penance ➤ Arson and avarice	3 x Favours: Criminals	1
	Tip off the urchins	A Task from the Cheesemonger		1	Drawn only with An Agent of the Cheesemonger 1-3
	Give him tentative art lessons	Your Winsome Orphan is out of control	2 x Memory of Distant Shores	1	Drawn with a Winsome Dispossessed Orphan and F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum
	Provide an Urchin with evidence that she's a long lost heir	Engage in Unobserved Charity	Cover Identity: Ties exactly 2 (Society), Cover Identity: Elaboration 4	2	Drawn in Ealing Gardens
	Fill a stomach	Indulge in Illicit Charity or Engage in Unobserved Charity	1 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits	1	Drawn in Ealing Gardens or Jericho Locks
	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
	Loan a kitten to some urchins	What will you do with your Grubby Kitten?	Grubby Kitten	1

Notable uses

Source	Action	Location	Cost	Reward	Value/Notes
Storylets	Trade favours with urchins	The Flit	3 x Favours	25 x Certifiable Scrap Opening a Bundle of Oddities	See Certifiable Scraps (Guide). Max value per favour is 4.06 (without variable Bundle amount)
	A Hopeless Pickpocket	Jericho Locks	4 x Favours	2 x Storm-Threnody 1 x Aeolian Scream	27.5
Cards	Pick pockets with the urchins	The Roof-Tops: Urchins	1 x Favours	~20 CP Shadowy per favour	If 0-30 Shadowy
	Run the rooftops with the urchins		3 x Favours		If 31-70 Shadowy
	Out you go, longshanks		5 x Favours 20 x Shard of Glim	~20 CP Shadowy per favour 1 x Sapphire	If 71+ Shadowy - .08
	Take the Devil's side	The Devil and the Child	2 x Favours	550 x Nevercold Brass Sliver 5 x Tale of Terror!! 1 CP Someone Is Coming	8
	Call in favours from Urchins	Under the Statue	4 x Favours	1 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap 3 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap Opening a Bundle of Oddities	20 plus Bundle Requires 1 Ealing Development
	Call in favours with the Gracious Widow	Under the Statue at the Magistracy			20 plus Bundle Requires 1 Magistracy Development
	Pursue a Scheme: offer some Urchins a place in your Orphanage	The Tower of Eyes: Behind Closed Doors at a Handsome Townhouse	5 x Favours 30	4-8 CP Engaged in a Scheme: an Orphanage
	Advise the girl to return to the Widow	A familiar face by the school railings	all Favours	350-700 x Jade Fragment 4-6 x An Identity Uncovered! 1 CP Someone Is Coming	Jade and Identities depends on Favours spent
	Sabotage the cannon	Youthful high spirits	all Favours	800-1200 Rat on a String 10-20 Bottle of Morelways 1872 1 CP Someone Is Coming	Rats and Bottles depends on Favours spent

The favours can also be used with a Rookery Password to increase Renown: Urchins.