House of Chimes (Guide)

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The House of Chimes is a location that you can gain access to via Exceptional Friendship. It is mostly just a curiosity, but there are a few perks and stories located there that are of note.

Gaining Admission

In order to enter the House of Chimes, you must first become Admitted to the House of Chimes. The precise levels of this quality aren't important; the only thing that matters is having it at all. Feel free to select whichever one you like best, but note that it costs 30 FATE to reset it should you want to change it later for some reason.

Level	Level Description	Requirements	Notes
1	An innocent
2	An extraordinary beauty	Persuasive 20
3	A player of games	Watchful 20 The Boatman's Opponent
4	An audacious zub-mariner	Zeefaring Zubmersibility
5	A cold-hearted killer	A Bringer of Death 1 x Ravenglass Knife
6	A noted trainer of weasels	1 x Araby Fighting-Weasel
7	DISOBEDIENT	GETTING AN UNCO-OPERATIVE REPUTATION
8	A true patriot	1 x Copy of your Patriotic Adventure
9	A dabbler in sulfurous liaisons	An Intimate of Devils 6
10	A traitor	An Agent of the Cheesemonger exactly 25	While possible to obtain, the exact level requirement makes it especially easy to lock yourself out of.
11	A committed cat-wrangler	Shadowy 30
12	Not to be crossed	Dangerous 20
13	Possibly a lunatic	Seeking Mr Eaten's Name 5	Inaccessible. Do not make this choice; it won't grant admission and will only harm you. Turn back now.
14	Enigmatic	Ambition: Enigma 10	Inaccessible. The required level is impossible to obtain.
15	Illegitimately Royal?	1 FATE
16	A Font of Devil's Tears	Renown: Hell 15
17	An Enemy of Brass	1 x Nevercold Brass Sliver
18	Privately Talented	Persuasive 100 10 x Confident Smile
19	The Rooftop Dancer	Route: The Flit Shadowy 60
20	An Unparalleled Grotesque	10 x Hard-Earned Lesson
21	A Visionary	A Person of Some Importance -
22	A Prisoner of Despair	Melancholy 4
23	A Speaker of Truth to Power	Forceful 4 Subtle 4
24	A Possessor of Impossible Table Habits
25	An Oenologonaut	1 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879 1 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882 1 x Bottle of Morelways 1872 1 x Bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing 1 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844 1 x Cellar of Wine 1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise 1 x Bottle of Black Wings Absinthe
26	Orphaned in a Grisly Accident
27	A Liar among Liars	1 x Whispered Hint 1 x Cryptic Clue 1 x Appalling Secret 1 x Extraordinary Implication 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum 1 x Searing Enigma
28	A Scarlet Saint	Hedonist 12 Austere 12 Renown: Hell 40 Renown: The Church 40
29	A Legendary Calumnist	Scandal 7 Persuasive 100 Watchful 100
30	An Artist in Ivory	A Scholar of the Correspondence
31	It's not what you know...	Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 5
32	A Wanderer of Parabola	7 x Memory of Light Having Recurring Dreams: A Game of Chess 9 Having Recurring Dreams: Is Someone There? 10
33	A Meteorological Moment	Stormy-Eyed 5 Having Recurring Dreams: What the Thunder Said 10
34	The Inescapable Arm of the Law LEGACY	Investigating the Rubbery Murders 12 RETIRED Ascending the Reliables List of Mr Pages 3 Watchful 100 1 x Antique Constable's Badge Renown: Constables 40 Renown: The Great Game 25	No longer accessible unless The Rubbery Murders was purchased before its removal from the game.
35	A Blood-Cousin to Predators	1 x Ancient Hunting Rifle A Procurer of Savage Beasts 1 x Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider 1 x Bengal Tigress or Extravagantly-Titled Tigress 1 x Araby Fighting-Weasel Dangerous 100 Watchful 100 Marked by the Eater-of-Chains 3

Stories

The stories in the House of Chimes are meant to be accessible to players at any level, and so are all fairly trivial to complete.

Learning from a Silk-Clad Expert

The Silk-Clad Expert is probably the biggest reward from this location. By finishing her story in the House of Chimes, you unlock the ability to recruit the Silk-clad Expert as an assistant in your Lab and on expeditions in Moulin. This is essentially double-FATE locked, however, as it requires a separate FATE purchase to make the actual recruitment after you've finished her story here. To compensate however she is quite powerful, with a useful expertise in the lab and the ability to generate Parabolan research without going to Parabola, and in Moulin she provides a unique card that allows progress. Note that once you've unlocked her as an assistant in your lab, you get her for free in Moulin and vice-versa.

Also, note that there is a branch in her story that states that it ends your association with her: this locks you out of getting her as an assistant.

Her story can be reset from within the House of Chimes itself, should you want to replay it, though it does require you to not be currently employing her in Moulin or the lab. You do not need to re-pay Fate to rehire her if you reset her story.

Drink a bit of brandy with a deviless

This gives +1 CP of An Intimate of Devils as long as it's less than or equal to 3. This lets you skip quite a bit of waiting around for card draws.

The Regretful Soldier's Heartbreaking Tale

This story requires you to have Acquaintance: the Regretful Soldier, and gives some lore about him and the ill-fated Campaign of '68. At each step you can choose to advance by spending Wines or by passing a fairly trivial stat challenge; the rewards are the same regardless. The final step is located in your Opportunity deck, and has unique options for the branching paths of A Trade in Souls. None of these actions affect your level of Acquaintance: the Regretful Soldier.

This story does allow you to access the Campaign Medal, an interesting little Curiosity that as far as I am aware is completely useless.

Inviting a Friend

Gives both you and the person you invite receive 3 x Confident Smile, and as well as a few pence worth of Cryptic Clue to the sender and a single Flawed Diamond to the invitee. If you somehow find yourself short on Confident Smiles, this does reward better than coffee at Caligula's. A niche action, but nice to have if you need it.

Gambling

A terrible, Luck-based source of Nodule of Deep Amber. The POSI option averages 150 Nodule of Deep Amber per action, with a rare success that gives 500 Nodule of Deep Amber, 1 CP Suspicion, and a Favour in High Places.

An Exceptional Democracy

An Exceptional Democracy Summary

Fixed-Length Activity

Setup

0 A

Progress

12 A

End

1 A

Progress Details

Vote every 28 days, while an Exceptional Friend. Build up additional votes by continuing friendship. Each option set must be taken a certain number of times.

Items Inputs/Outputs

Outputs

Once:

• Refill opportunity deck

Twice:

• Sudden Insight
  • Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
• Confident Smile
• Hard-Earned Lesson

Twice:

• A Remarkable Tolerance for Your Eccentric Behaviour
• A Remarkable Reluctance to Observe Your Misdeeds

Thrice

• A Machiavellian Mien
• A Pseudoscientific Seeming
• A Reflective Reputation
• A Poisonous Prestige
• A Generous Guise
• A Cryptoanatomical Celebrity
• A Protean Prominence
• A Zalty Ztature

Once:

• Making Waves

Once:

• Personal Recommendation
  • Favourable Circumstance

Once:

• Soul

Once:

• Basket of Rubbery Pies
• Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits
• Jasmine Leaves

Raw EPA

9.57

Raw SPA

2.3

Special

Many of these are 1 week boons and other benefits, not raw epa.

One of the new stories added in 2023 as part of the launch of Enhanced Exceptional Friendship. This is a short story in which Mr Chimes agrees to allow the Exceptional Citizens of London a voting body in the House of Chimes. You may select a name for this 'venerable' institution, though it is purely cosmetic not unlike the voting body itself.

The main benefit of being a politician, of course, is taking bribes accepting such beneficities and perkitudes as are appropriescent to a parliamentarian of your enstatury. These include deck refreshes, cash payouts, and unique Boons.

Every 28 days you will receive one vote, plus an extra vote for each month you have been consecutively subscribed. Normal subscribers can accumulate a maximum of 3 votes, while Enhanced Exceptional Friends may have up to 6.

You may vote for each option once during each legislative session, with a few restrictions:

• Of the eight possible advanced skill boons, you can only pick three per session, though you can pick the same one multiple times.
• You can't vote for an advanced skill boon if you already have one active, whether from voting or another source, such as the Moulin Wastes. The House of Chimes boons expire one real-time week after being acquired.
• Similary, you can't have both Menace reduction boons active at the same time. They also last for a week.
• A session comes to a close after 12 votes, after which you gain a Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise

Votes

Interests	Per Session	Vote	Benefit
London's Public	Once		Refills your opportunity deck. Make sure it's empty first!
Holding to Account	Twice		2 x Sudden Insight 2 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
			2 x Confident Smile 2 x Hard-Earned Lesson
Establishment	Twice		Grants the boon A Remarkable Tolerance for Your Eccentric Behaviour, reducing scandal buildup.
			Grants the boon A Remarkable Reluctance to Observe Your Misdeeds, reducing suspicion buildup.
Esoterica	Thrice		Grants the boon A Machiavellian Mien, raising A Player of Chess
			Grants the boon A Pseudoscientific Seeming, raising Artisan of the Red Science
			Grants the boon A Reflective Reputation, raising Glasswork
			Grants the boon A Poisonous Prestige, raising Kataleptic Toxicology
			Grants the boon A Generous Guise, raising Mithridacy
			Grants the boon A Cryptoanatomical Celebrity, raising Monstrous Anatomy
			Grants the boon A Protean Prominence, raising Shapeling Arts
			Grants the boon A Zalty Ztature, raising Zeefaring
Tubthumping	Once		Making Waves +21 CP
Fickle	Once		2 x Personal Recommendation 1 x Favourable Circumstance Favourable Circumstance caps at 1. Use it before taking this vote.
Yourself	Once		1500 x Souls This equals 30 but is worth more to Spirifers and Shepherds
Snacks	Once		3 x Basket of Rubbery Pies 3 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits 50 x Jasmine Leaves This equals about 20 of which 15 can be turned into 30

Opportunity Perks

There is a storylet which lets you speak to Mr. Chimes itself and to access several perks that are otherwise locked in your Opportunity deck--notably, the ability to purchase Honeyed Laudanum and the ability to reduce Scandal and Suspicion in a manner similar to A plaster saint!. These storylets still cost the same amount of FATE as their non-Chimes counterparts, but you don't have to wait on opportunity draws to get them.

Another storylet lets you begin several otherwise Opportunity-based stories: notably Solving Cases around London, The Jack-of-Smiles Case, and acquiring an Iron Republic Safe-Conduct. There is also a permanent storylet that lets you access shroom-hopping for three FATE, effectively a non-card version of A stroke of luck!.

Additional Bonuses

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Equipping five cats from the Mr Chimes' Lost & Found will give you access to a storylet to claim a companion: Horatio, Finest of His Lineage.

• Sebastian the Nocturnal Smotherer (Hat)
• Calliope the Yowler (Clothing)
• Lillibet the Strangler (Adornment)
• Benvolio the Bacon Thief (Gloves)
• Freya, Scourge of Fragile Ornaments (Weapon)
• Gustav the Ankle Weaver (Boots)
• Mercutio of the Hoard (Luggage)