Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out (Guide)

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Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out is a one-off event succeeding Elections.

5 dig sites have opened in Fallen London. These have to be fully sponsored and excavated, by buying scrip with Fate, Offering food to the diggers and digging.

• See Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out (historical) for a day-to-day recap of the event

Overview

Across London 5 new dig sites have appeared. In order to complete this both the digging and fuelling qualities for that dig site, which are shared globally, need to hit 1 million, and the FATE part needs to be fully funded. Once all these three are completed the dig site will be excavated, players will be unable to dig/fuel further, and a new repeatable activity will be added.

Digging

The most basic way to contribute is to Help with the digging, which raises Digging beneath (location name) (quality dependent on which dig the player is at), by 5 x, and contributes to reaching 1 million Digging beneath (location name) for that location. Every time Help with the digging is played it will redirect the player to A Find Beneath the Streets, where either economy item(s) or, with the right values, an equipment item can be found (see #Unique Rewards for more information).

Fuelling

Alternatively, several food items ( Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits, Basket of Rubbery Pies, Jasmine Leaves and Hand-picked Peppercaps) can be spent to increase Feeding the Workers at (location name) by 20 x per food item. Feeding the workers redirects to The Opening of a Chamber, where players can claim a different economy reward, however the unique item rewards are the same.

A Ubiquitous card, An Upturned Cart, also provides various options that significantly increase fueling at a chosen digsite. Once every digsite was opened, the card was discarded.

Now that one of the digsites has been completed, new fueling options have been revealed which increase Feeding the Workers at (location name) by 80 times the number of opened digsites.

Sponsoring

Players could buy Chthonic Scrip for FATE at the digsites, which helped Fund the dig sites, however this goal was completed within an hour of the event starting.

Progress

All Fate goals have been met.

Location	Dig Progress	Feeding Progress	Overall Progress
Moloch Street	1000005	1000020	100.00%
Spite	1000005	1000018	100.00%
The University	1000005	1000001	100.00%
The Singing Mandrake	1000005	1000038	100.00%
The Blind Helmsman	1000005	1000070	100.00%
Overall Progress	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%
Last updated: 13:49 28 Jul 2021 (UTC)

Rewards

Every action spent digging will allow a reward to be claimed from A Find Beneath the Streets for another action. Every action spent fuelling will allow a reward to be claimed from The Opening of a Chamber. With the exact right number of Digging/Fuelling one of the following items can be claimed. This progress is dependent on your attributes, according to Bruno.

Additionally, Chthonic Scrip can be spent for a variety of rewards. 30 can be gained initially for a cost of 200 x Shard of Glim, further scrip must be gained from spending fate (1:1 ratio) or from exchanging A Free Gift from previous elections.

Rewards when digging or fuelling

Unique Rewards

While you can get these from either source, it's suggested to gain them while digging, as that is cheaper.

Item	Action	Requirement	Stats	Notes
A Pre-Lapsarian Speaking Tube	Something loud	Delving or Fueling 3-7	Persuasive +4 Shadowy +1
M. D_____' A_____ for _______: F____ Edition	Something forbidden	Delving or Fueling 8	Watchful +4 Zeefaring +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Zeefaring (peer items are RETIRED)
Polythreme Drinking Vessel	Something silvery	Delving or Fueling 11	Persuasive +8 Bizarre +1
A Poisoned Pen	Something toxic	Delving or Fueling 14	Dangerous +8 Dreaded +1
Wax-Hardened Boots	Something red	Delving or Fueling 17	Watchful +5 Respectable +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Respectable
F.F. Gebrandt's Patent Illuminating Cap	Something bright or Something moving	Delving or Fueling 20+	Watchful +8 Shadowy -2 Monstrous Anatomy +1 Neathproofed +1	Shared Best-in-Slot non-Mood item for Watchful Shared Best-in-Slot item for Monstrous Anatomy (peer item is Ambition: Bag a Legend! only) Shared Best-in-Slot item for Neathproofed

Rewards from digging

Delving	Reward	Value ( )
Rare Success	1 x Emetic Revelation	12.50
0-2	10 x Venom-Ruby	1.00
3-4	2 x Tale of Terror!!	1.00
5-6	2 x Compromising Document	1.00
7	2 x Venge-Rat Corpse	1.00
8-9	1 x Baptised Rattus Faber Corpse	2.50
10-11	1 x Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory	2.50
12-13	1 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap	2.50
14-16	1 x London Street Sign	2.50
17	1 x Anticandle	N/A
18-19	1 x Partial Map	2.50
20	1 x Magnificent Diamond 1 x Ratty Reliquary	25.00
21	5 x Mourning Candle 1 x Unlawful Device	25.00
22	2 x Justificande Coin 1 x Fourth-City Echo 10 x First City Coin 500 x Jade Fragment	7.50 + N/A (12.50 if valuing Justificandes at 2.50 each)

Rewards from fuelling

Bear in mind that fuelling costs 40 worth of tea, biscuits or pies

Fueling	Reward	Value ( )
0-3	17 x Aeolian Scream	42.50
4-6	17 x Unprovenanced Artefact	42.50
7	1 x Anticandle 6 x Mourning Candle 30 x Tale of Terror!! 20 x Certifiable Scrap Nightmares +7 CP	~38.00 + Anticandle
8-10	1 x Puzzling Map 13 x Partial Map	45.00
11-13	1 x Flourishing Ribcage 3250 x Bone Fragments	45.00
14-15	4 x Sausage About Which No One Complains	50.00
16-17	4 x Emetic Revelation Nightmares +1 CP	50.00
18-19	2 x Cave-Aged Code of Honour 1000 x Cryptic Clue	45.00
20	1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise	62.50
21	1 x Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures	62.50
22	1 x Primaeval Hint	62.50

Rewards from Scrip

Pavilion of Subterranean Delights

The pavilion contains new rewards from this year. Each reward is connected to one of the dig sites and provides additional hints to what happens there.

Item	Chthonic Scrip cost	Stats	Notes
Strangling Willow Ring	20 x	Persuasive +8 Dreaded +1 Mithridacy +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Persuasive Shared Best-in-Slot item for Dreaded Strict Best-in-Slot item for Mithridacy
Polythremean Peacoat	20 x	Respectable +1 Bizarre +1 Zeefaring +1 Neathproofed +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Bizarre Strict Best-in-Slot item for Zeefaring Shared Best-in-Slot BDR item
Honey-Stained Shackles	30 x	Shadowy +8 Dreaded +1 Glasswork +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Dreaded Strict Best-in-Slot item for Glasswork
Elevating Silk Slippers	30 x	Dangerous +8 Respectable +1 Monstrous Anatomy +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Dangerous Shared Best-in-Slot item for Respectable Strict Best-in-Slot item for Monstrous Anatomy
Horseless, Driverless, Remorseless Carriage	50 x	Dangerous +4 Dreaded +2 Artisan of the Red Science +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Dreaded Strict Best-in-Slot item for Artisan of the Red Science

Marquee of Mystification

These rewards are from previous elections. Their scrip cost is equal to their previous fate cost.

Item	Chthonic Scrip cost	Stats	Notes
Genuine Rubbery Lumps	20 x	Persuasive +8 Bizarre +1 Neathproofed +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Persuasive Shared Best-in-Slot item for Neathproofed
Devilbone Talons	20 x	Watchful +8 Respectable +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Watchful
The Neathy Tarot, Featuring all 77 of the Major Arcana	20 x	Shadowy +8 Dreaded +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Dreaded
Corinthian Belfry Hat	20 x	Shadowy +8 Bizarre +1	Strict Best-in-Slot non-Mood item for Shadowy
Indignant Bearskin	20 x	Persuasive +8 Respectable +1 Neathproofed +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Neathproofed
Epicurean War-Helm	20 x	Dangerous +8 Dreaded +1	Shared Best-in-Slot non-Fate item for Dreaded
A Bottle of Angry Bees	20 x	Dangerous +8 Dreaded +1
Mr Slowcake's Caducean Rose	20 x	Persuasive +8 Respectable +1
The Contrarian's Monochromatic Lantern	20 x	Watchful +8 Bizarre +1
Velvet Cloak with Burning Buttons	30 x	Shadowy +4 Dreaded +1 Artisan of the Red Science +1 Neathproofed +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Artisan of the Red Science
Fourth City Eyeball	30 x	Watchful +4 Respectable +1 A Player of Chess +1	Strict Best-in-Slot item for A Player of Chess
Highly-Accurate Gargoyle	30 x	Dangerous +4 Bizarre +1 Monstrous Anatomy +1	Strict Best-in-Slot item for Monstrous Anatomy
Cloud-filled Sphere	30 x	Watchful +8 Shapeling Arts +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Shapeling Arts
'Lucky' Claw	30 x	Persuasive +8 Glasswork +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Persuasive Strict Best-in-Slot item for Glasswork
Augmented Electrostatic Machine	30 x	Dangerous +3 Kataleptic Toxicology +1	Strict Best-in-Slot item for Kataleptic Toxicology
A Traitor's Carriage	30 x	Dangerous +3 Dreaded +1
A Gazebo!	40 x	Persuasive +6 Respectable +1
A Seven-Times-Exiled Parliamentarian's Guide to Electioneering	40 x	Watchful +8 Shadowy +6 Bizarre +1
Voting Booth of One's Own	50 x	Shadowy +6
A Mutton Island Account	50 x	Persuasive +8 Shadowy +4 Respectable +1

Location Clues & Unlocks

After being fully excavated and financed, each location contains something different.

Dig Site	Associated Item	Location Unlocked	Description from Look into these tunnels
Spite	Polythremean Peacoat	Underclay (Guide)	The tunnels here have delved deep into the Earth, and they have uncovered remnants of a previous Falling City: Stone blocks and clay bricks of unfamiliar make; the odd fragment of a stone tablet or potsherd.
The University	Honey-Stained Shackles	Old Newgate (Guide)	Numerous iron chains and manacles […] leading a Benthic professor to theorize that these are the remains of the HMS Ungulate […] He hasn't proposed a theory for how the ship got buried […] Nor does his hypothesis account for the constant buzzing […]
The Blind Helmsman	Horseless, Driverless, Remorseless Carriage	L.B. Industries (Guide)	The tunnels here are filled with a noise of machinery. The bulk of excavated items seem to originate in London – whatever is buried here must have sunk into the Earth with the Fall, if not more recently.
The Singing Mandrake	Elevating Silk Slippers	Spider Symposium (Guide)	The tunnels beneath the Singing Mandrake have yielded relatively few artefacts of note. But they do have a recurring problem with cobwebs, and more than one digging Londoner has reported a chittering noise from below.
Moloch Street	Strangling Willow Ring	The Sunken Embassy (Guide)	A ring of brass the colour of mahogany was recovered early on in the digging. Papers and files are commonly found, too, though they are often too damaged to read. And it's hard to ignore that the tunnels have the faintest scent of brimstone.