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From: Open a Surprise Package

Crack it open. Move aside the paper.

Game Instructions: The contents of these packages is random and highly variable.

Unlocked with 1 x A Surprise Package

Success

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Description summary:

Package	Title	Description
1-3	Something wretched	Lumps in damp fustian. Someone laid a dead rat beside a candle on silk. Tied a careful knot in the silk. Bundled up the clothing it lies in. Someone will miss these pitiable things.
4-10	Something warm	You can feel the pulses beneath the flimsy linen, like a tiny sleeping animal. Someone wrapped it with a note: FOR THE CHILDREN.
11-20	Something sweet	A golden jar! Prisoner's honey. Taste it, and be somewhere else. For a little while.
21-40	Something keening	Some sounds have rung in the Neath since before the Bazaar came. These, for instance.
41-60	Something to burn?	[…] A litany of unwise hypotheses. Perhaps […] Mr Mirrors is Mr Cups. Perhaps the Bazaar is painted […] and underneath there are colours like coral. Perhaps the Provost of Summerset […] is a devil with his teeth and horns filed. But it's […] least wise of all to print them.
61-80	Something dark	The wax of the lamplighter bee has a distinctive scent: cellary, polleny, zinc-y. Use this to make candles, or perhaps just to purify the air of your rooms.
81-98	Something delicate	A length of fabric, spun and cut – where? Who gathered the cocoons in the sunlight, how far, how long ago? The Neath-roof arcs above. All is quiet. No silk-worms here below: no mulberries, no Sun.
99	Something monstrous	The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! It leaps from the box like an acrobat! The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! It claws at your face like a rabid bat! […] If only we could stamp it flat! […] Don't expect it to stay on the mat!
100	Something eclectic	Old china teeth and […]. A playing-card dipped in vinegar and a lightning-rod smeared with ash. A rag and a bone and a hank of blackened fur. A mushroom contorted into a comic shape. There's an odd green smell about this one, like new-cut grass.
101-199	Something troublesome	What a history of wickedness is here! This might not make you rich. But it will be a diverting afternoon's reading. The troubles of the rich lave the souls of the unrich.
200 ( soulless)	Something unexpected	A bottle of thick curved glass. The contents glow very softly. You know it at once. Your soul, which was taken from you! A note simply reads: BE MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME. Beneath it, a crudely drawn shepherd's crook.
200 ( not soulless)	Something eclectic	Old china teeth and a bell with an eye. A playing-card dipped in vinegar and a lightning-rod smeared with ash. A rag and a bone and a hank of blackened fur. A mushroom contorted […]. There's an odd green smell about this one, like new-cut grass.
201-300	Something lethal	Oily liquid rolls in the bottle. There is a label: TO MY DARLINGEST ODIO ON THE OCCASION OF YOUR ELEVEN THOUSANDTH SOUL. GO TO HELL.
301-400	Something warming	The Broken Giant has a purple ribbon at the bottleneck. The Strangling Willow (careful!) is beribboned with blue and yellow. The Greyfields bears a white ribbon. Is it a code? A token?
401-500	Something contradictory	Someone has prepared a parcel of dead rats for sending […]. But the rats are venge-rats, that sleek rare savage assassin-breed. Someone has stuffed them with diamonds […]. […] DONE BECAUSE WE ARE TOO MENNY. Is this a gift? A warning? A punishment? A reward?
501-599	Something forbidden	Forbidden goods! There's a manifesto of sorts, too, crudely printed... 'This is not our city. […] We are overwritten by the Masters. […] The streets are dead, but let us remember them. Chalk their old names high! Let them be remembered in flame!'
600	Something wriggling	It blinks sleepily from the bottom of the box: a little ferret, clutching a little blanket in its paws. Who would consign such a creature to the vagaries of the postal service?
601-650	Something ahistorical	Vast volumes, bound in deerskin and written in Hudum. Difficult works to translate – and misleading, too. If this is to be believed, Khan's Heart was founded in the Misermere, after the last True Khan brokered peace with […] 'the Catastrophe of Crowns'...
651-700	Something sacred	Scraps of musical notation, half-scorched, annotated in untidy hand. 'Do not attempt to play on anything but a fiddle!', says one. 'Down with the New Democracy!', says another.
701-750	Something ticking	Explosives in the post? Really, how uncouth. The Ministry of Menace Eradication houses a twitchy cohort of experts […] to 'deal' with devices such as this. […] they are all veterans of the Campaign of '68. But they surely won't mind you holding onto this one.
751-800	Something scholarly	Crisp white foolscap neatly hatched with ink. Someone has doodled a sort of fanged snail on the top sheet. You can adapt these findings for your own purposes. (Or pass them off as your own, if you're rash and shameless.)
801-810	Something funereal	A cat-sized coffin […] containing three rat-corpses and a quantity of poison. The rats have been laid to rest in […] military uniforms. […] One of the rats is still barely alive! "Don't... ever... cross... the Duchess..." he squeaks, and breathes his ratty last.
811-815	Something diplomatic	A […] note […] bears the seal of the Presbyterate and smells […] sewery. 'Irrigo + Proto-City = Non-Memory. […] send funds for expedition.' Three passphrase-slips accompany a chunk of oddly coloured amber. When you touch the amber, you […] speak unexpected words.
816-830	Something photographic	Someone has been photographing graffiti. The photographs have been taken around Ladybones Road. Each is marked with time, date, and conjectures in a cryptic hand. There's a considerable quantity of information about Hell here...
831-840	Something uncertain	A thick sheaf of signed documents. It looks like […] a consulting detective's trove of evidence: mostly about smuggling and riverside murders. […] notes in the margins read: 'Leadbeater & Stainrod w/Drwnies??', 'black song notation' and 'fluke lumps'.
841-950	Something perilous	Exactly one and a half dozen lead plaques marked with the alphabet known to some as the Correspondence. Does that mean something? A note accompanies them: FOR SCRAP. It might just be the meticulous lettering of Mr Iron's left hand.
951-999	Something bloodstained	[…] […] A begging letter to a lawyer with a soul-collection. A proposal to ban black-painted ships […]. A Christmas card signed 'Your Beloved Ancestor'. A love-letter of peculiar poignancy […] on the eve of her exile to the tomb-colonies. A confession of cannibalism.
1000	Something... purple?	It leaps upright crouched to spring, a tiny knife clutched in one tendril. No, not a knife: a stylus! On the box-lid it scratches: OBLIGATION BEGINS NOW AT BOX-OPENING YOU HAVE FIFTEEN YEARS OF BLEMMIGAN TIME. DO NOT ASK PERSONAL QUESTIONS. […]

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•  You've opened a Surprise Package! (Sets Opening a Surprise Package to 1-1000)
• With Opening a Surprise Package 1-3:
  •  You've gained 1 x Silk Scrap
  •  You've gained 1 x Bundle of Ragged Clothing
  •  You've gained 1 x Foxfire Candle Stub
  •  You've gained 1 x Rat on a String
• With Opening a Surprise Package 4-10:
  •  You've gained 2 x Nodule of Warm Amber
• With Opening a Surprise Package 11-20:
  •  You've gained 10 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
• With Opening a Surprise Package 21-40:
  •  You've gained 21-80 x Primordial Shriek
• With Opening a Surprise Package 41-60:
  •  You've gained 1-30 x Proscribed Material
• With Opening a Surprise Package 61-80:
  •  You've gained 1-160 x Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax
• With Opening a Surprise Package 81-98:
  •  You've gained 1-20 x Surface-Silk Scrap
• With Opening a Surprise Package exactly 99:
  •  You've gained 1 x Starveling Cat
  •  You've gained 1 x Appalling Secret
  •  Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
  •  You've gained 1 x Tale of Terror!!
  •  You've gained 1 x Devilbone Die
• With Opening a Surprise Package exactly 100:
  •  You've gained 1-10 x Certifiable Scrap
  •  You've gained 1 x Devilbone Die
• With Opening a Surprise Package 101-199:
  •  You've gained 1-8 x Compromising Document
• With Opening a Surprise Package exactly 200 and Your very own Infernal Contract:
  •  You've gained 1 x Devilbone Die
  •  You've lost 1 x Your very own Infernal Contract
• With Opening a Surprise Package exactly 200 and no Your very own Infernal Contract:
  • [Same as 100?]
• With Opening a Surprise Package 201-300:
  •  You've gained 1 x Muscaria Brandy
• With Opening a Surprise Package 301-400:
  •  You've gained 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
  •  You've gained 2 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe
  •  You've gained 2 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879
• With Opening a Surprise Package 401-500:
  •  You've gained 1-10 x Venge-Rat Corpse
  •  You've gained 2-10 x Ostentatious Diamond
• With Opening a Surprise Package 501-599:
  •  You've gained 1 x Proscribed Material
  •  You've gained 1-6 x London Street Sign
• With Opening a Surprise Package exactly 600:
  •  You've gained 1 x Sleepy Ferret
• With Opening a Surprise Package 601-650:
  •  You've gained 1-2 x Caustic Apocryphon
• With Opening a Surprise Package 651-700:
  •  You've gained 3 x Apostate's Psalm
• With Opening a Surprise Package 701-750:
  •  You've gained 1 x Unlawful Device
• With Opening a Surprise Package 751-800:
  •  You've gained 1-8 x Volume of Collated Research
• With Opening a Surprise Package 801-810:
  •  You've gained 2 x Venge-Rat Corpse
  •  You've gained 1 x Baptised Rattus Faber Corpse
  •  You've gained 20 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  •  You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication
• With Opening a Surprise Package 811-815:
  •  You've gained 1 x Nodule of Violet Amber
  •  You've gained 3 x Presbyterate Passphrase
• With Opening a Surprise Package 816-830:
  •  You've gained 1-830 x Cryptic Clue
• With Opening a Surprise Package 831-840:
  •  You've gained 11-22 x Dubious Testimony
• With Opening a Surprise Package 841-950:
  •  You've gained 18 x Correspondence Plaque
  •  A Scholar of the Correspondence is increasing… (+1 CP, up to level 10) (if already present)
• With Opening a Surprise Package 951-999:
  •  You've gained [( Opening a Surprise Package/5)+1] x Stolen Correspondence (minimum of 191)
  •  You've gained 1 x Touching Love Story
• With Opening a Surprise Package 1000:
  •  You've gained 1 x Blemmigan Secretary
•  You've lost 1 x A Surprise Package