Legal Grinding (Guide)
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Special Dispensation[edit]
The Magistracy of the Evenlode
- 1 for Ask for your good sense and reasoned judgement to be recognised; costs 7 x Favours: Constables and
2 x Extraordinary Implication
Infernal Contract[edit]
- 5 for Contracts and legs from the Unfinished Business in Watchmaker's Hill storylet at
Dangerous 100; requires 
PoSI
- An average of 135 for Breed the Tomb-Lion 6 via Fungus and Pious Wrath; takes 15 actions and a
Tomb-Lion. See Breeding Monsters (Guide) for more information.
- An amount depending on your Monograph's
Tragic (potentially up to 555) when you sell to The Diabolical Propagandist; see Writing a Monograph (Guide) for more information.
20 x Hinterland Prosperity per Infernal Contract, from Allow Hell its hour on the card Near (Hinterland Site)/Beside Marigold, requires having 100,000 x Hinterland Prosperity, the TLC at Marigold, and an Infernal Charter.
Other
- Buy them from Crawcase Cryptics for 0.40
Dubious Testimony[edit]
- 7 for In statements and testimonies allows
Licentiates to pay out their Professional Activities (Guide) in testimonies and other items. Up to 6 every 12.5 actions on average.
- 2 for A public lecture; also gives
+1 CP Suspicion
- 5 for completing the heist on The Circumspect Envoy's Townhouse with the ancient treaties and selling them to London's Ambassador.
- 5 for Enter the house (White); requires having reached the White ending of the Chessboard campaign and not started another campaign since. See Parabolan War (Guide) for more information.
The Magistracy of the Evenlode
- 3 for a success on Watch a civil trial
- An average of 2.5 for Count the stones in the First Circle or Count the stones in the Second Circle
- 50 x Hinterland Prosperity per Dubious Testimony, from Betray the city to the Constables on the card Officially Non-Criminal, requires having 100,000 x Hinterland Prosperity.
- 5 for Require an accounting from the Impenitent Devil; averages 2.5 per action, and costs a number of different items to enter the storylet depending on your
Parabolan Dominance.
Other
- Discordant Ripples (Following) 5 gives 4
Sworn Statement[edit]
- 3 for The Value of Good Names at the end of the
Working toward a Foreign Posting carousel, requires 
Successful Terms as Governor - and at least 14 actions.
- (
Attar) for Barter your Attar. - 1-7 (equal to Permission to Linger) for failing at Labour in the temple in Near Arbor (Temple) - e.g. by equipping the
Weasel of Woe. If you are parked in this location, subsequent visits to Arbor and failing to labour will yield 7 Statements per a 3-action visit, or 2.33 per action. - 3 in exchange for 3 for Witness a trial at
Watchful 115; requires x 1 , which is lost if you fail.
- 1-4 from Inspire her to imagine His Amused Lordship as a historical figure, requires at least x 2 . See Oneiropomp (Guide) for more information.
- 16 for ...a Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures, one of the payouts of the The shaded estate on Hemlock Row heist; costs a
Hiding Place of a Peculiar Item. See On a Heist (Guide) for more information. At best, this will take ~18.5 actions, discounting the cost of traveling to The Wellspring of Moulin. Also gives one Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures.
- An amount depending on the complexity of your identity for Fence this identity with
Cover Identity: Ties Dispossessed. Pays out a maximum of 28 over 30 actions (0.93 per action) and requires 
1 x Favours: Urchins. For players with 
The Marvellous, no favours are needed and the efficiency increases to 0.97 per action. See Cover Identities (Guide) for more information. - 5 for Ambush an Aging Detective; costs
-21 CP Casing.... See Casing (Guide) for more information. - gives 1.25 per action with casing in Parabola.
Balmoral/London
- 5 for Unveil your Painting (Luminosity), or 2 for Unveil your Painting (Nostalgic); see Painting in Balmoral (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for Establish doctrinal matters at a a Counter-Church in the Wild.
- Correct a Verse of Counter-Creed gives 1 (along with 1
Uncanny Incunabulum) in exchange for 1 
Verse of Counter-Creed.
Other
- Discordant Ripples (Following) 5 gives 1.
- Discordant Ripples (Frozen) 3 gives 4.
Cave-Aged Code of Honour[edit]
- 1 from Send the Unfinished Man to the Duchess; requires at least 7 actions per Code. See Underclay (Guide) for more information.
- 1 from Taste honey from a moderate amount of bees; requires at least 5 actions per Code. See Hunting Bees in Old Newgate (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for Exchange some plunder for a Cave-Aged Code of Honour; costs
1250 x Stashed Treasure, which requires at least 3 actions to obtain. See Piracy (Guide) for more information.
The Magistracy of the Evenlode
- 1 for Study the evidence, when diving in the Magistracy; requires at least 7 actions per Code.
- 1 for Surrender the Marigold Emblem 2 or Surrender the Marigold Emblem 5; on average this gives 1 every 6 actions.
Legal Document[edit]
Other
- A Cave-Aged Code of Honour sells for 1 x Legal Document at the Bazaar (i.e. with no action cost to convert) so any source of the former is also source of the latter. Note that Codes are available at no cost and only 5-6 actions each, making them generally cheaper to acquire than directly grinding Docs.
- 1 for In statements and testimonies allows Licentiates to pay out their Professional Activities (Guide) in documents and other items. Up to 1 every 12.5 actions on average.
- 2 for The Home of an Admiral's Widow; costs
3 x Favours: The Docks. See On a Heist (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for Have a Legal Document drawn up, costs
6 x Aeolian Scream, 
30 x Correspondence Plaque, 
300 x Maniac's Prayer
- 1 for Make the deal, requires at least 12 actions per document; see Doing Business in Wilmot's End (Guide) for more information.
The Magistracy of the Evenlode
- 2 for prosecuting a criminal case; costs 25 x Dubious Testimony and requires 6 actions for an average of 3 actions per document. See Barristering at Evenlode (Guide) for more information.
- 2 for Break into the offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece; costs -36 CP Casing...
- 1 for Real estate development on the Imports and Exports card. Costs 750 (700 if
Chosen Site is near Evenlode) Hinterland Prosperity at max 
Hinterland Efficiency, 2.35/2.44 actions per Document.
Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures[edit]
- 1 for The shaded estate on Hemlock Row; costs Hiding Place of a Peculiar Item. See On a Heist (Guide) for more information. At best, this will take ~18.5 actions, discounting the cost of traveling to The Wellspring of Moulin. Also gives one Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures.
- 1 for Help those you can when you Look for a copy of Le Précipice de la Tombée; With good strategy runs can consistantly take to ~20 actions or less. See The Stacks (Guide) for more info on optimizing runs. Additionally gives 10
Anticandles, 5 
Relics of the Fifth City, and 35 
Tantalising Possibilities. Requires 
An Interloper in the Library 4 (that is, four stacks runs completed)
Edicts of the First City[edit]
- Can be purchased at The Maundering Rat's Stall 3125 Rat-Shillings when
The Rat-Season: is Wine-Whisper, Rise-and-Rake or Nitre-Knife.
- 1 for the First City conclusion of Study the Prelapsarian history of the Red Science; requires
Laboratory Research 2700, 
Expertise of the First City 10, and having completed the Efficient Comissioner's story.
- 1 for the Fingerkings ending of The Fingerkings campaign. See Parabolan War (Guide) for more information.
- 1 for Provide cover to a Chilly Legal Scholar; requires a cover identity with
100 Cover Identity: Backstory, 
6 Cover Identity: Credentials and 10 Cover Identity: Elaboration. See Cover Identities (Guide) for more information.
