Favours: The Great Game

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 Watcher's reward	London	4 actions, Must be a Watcher	1	Once per week, after Time, the Healer
	The Murderer's reward		4 actions, Must be an Murderer	1
	The Licentiate's Bounty		4 actions, Must be a Licentiate	1
	The Agent's Reward		4 actions, Must be a Agent	1
	The Midnighter's Currency		4 actions, Must be a Midnighter	2
Storylets	Betray! Destroy! Take black down from the inside!	The Chessboard	The cycle takes 9 actions.	3	See The Chessboard (Guide)
	Meet with spies	Mrs Plenty's Carnival	Less than 5 x Renown	1
	An exchange of favours 2	Wilmot's End	This takes 2 cycles of 11 actions each.	1	See Doing Business in Wilmot's End (Guide)
	Graduate Pupil Fate Carousel	Sinning Jenny's Finishing School	12 Actions	0-1	See Sinning Jenny's Finishing School (Guide)
Cards	Go for a glass of wine and a chat	A Visit ➤ the Functionary	Acquainted	1
	Assist in a stakeout	Whispers from the Surface: The Great Game	+1 CP Wounds	1
	Send your bat to collect the menu from a certain cafe on the Surface	A Parliament of Bats	1 x Vision of the Surface	1	Requires Sulky Bat to draw.
	Woods in winter	The dance goes on 2	Route: The Cave of the Nadir	1	Drawn only in The Cave of the Nadir
	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
	Let your mole do the work	What will you do with your Subtle Mole?	Subtle Mole	1
	Choice on the	The Iron Correspondents Card	5 x Map Scrap The Iron Correspondents	1	Must have The Iron Correspondents equipped to draw.

Notable uses

Source	Action	Location	Cost	Reward	Value/Notes
Storylets	An elliptical conversation	Wolfstack Docks	1 x Favours	210 x Cryptic Clue	4.2
	Ask the Muffled Intriguer to broker your Stolen Kisses	Stolen Kiss	1 x Favours 25 x Stolen Kiss	5 x Favour in High Places 10 x Surface-Silk Scrap 100 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882 1-45 CP Making Waves	On Success 3
				6 x Favour in High Places 1 x Nodule of Pulsating Amber 1 CP Scandal 1-65 CP Making Waves	On Rare Success 75
				5 x Favour in High Places 1-35 CP Making Waves	0
	An Illustrated Novelist	Jericho Locks	4 x Favours	1 x Vienna Opening 1 x Queen Mate	55 x Hinterland Scrip
Cards	Take a stroll around Tyrant's Gardens	Whispers from the Surface: The Great Game	1 x Favours	~20 CP Watchful per favour	If 0-30 Watchful
	Get some work done at Clathermont's tattoo parlour		3 x Favours		If 31-70 Watchful
	Learn more at the carnival		5 x Favours		If 71+ Watchful
	Everyone deserves a second chance	A contact in the Great Game has a tale for you	2 x Favours	1 x Sudden Insight 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson 1 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note 1 x Confident Smile 3 x An Identity Uncovered! 1 CP Someone Is Coming 1 CP Magnanimous	7.5 Extra Chances capped at 21 Quirk capped at 5
	Make contact with an agent	Under the Statue at Moulin	2 x Favours	1 x Vital Intelligence 5 x Moves in the Great Game	15 or 30 x Hinterland Scrip