Nostalgia Grinding (Guide)

Drop of Prisoner's Honey

Veilgarden

• 50 for Doing the decent thing. at Persuasive 100; requires PoSI
• 100 for Pay a visit to the (Honey-Den Name); requires having A Veilgarden Honey-Den:

The Empress' Court

• 47 for Discuss philosophy whilst taking the air at Persuasive 94

University Laboratory

• Requires romancing the Struggling Artist, which permanently adds a card to the opportunity deck – probably not worth doing if you don't already have the artist!
  • 125 for Send him out for a little more honey at Persuasive 175
  • 150 for Send him on another errand, which appears during lab projects while you employ the artist in your Laboratory.

Moulin

• 650 for Sell it to a honey-den; costs Flask of Waswood Wellspring Water from the The Wellspring of the Waste expedition. Depending on stats, can be expected to provide 100-110 per action. See Moulin Expeditions (Guide) for more information.

Other

• Can be purchased for 0.04 at Merrigans Exchange, or 0.06 at the After-Hours Market in the Upper River
• Can be converted from Bottle of Greyfields 1879 through Supply wine in exchange for Prisoner's Honey in Veilgarden at a rate of 50 bottles per 40 honey. This costs 0.60 less per 40 honey, but has a cost of 1 action per conversion.
• Anything above 5EPA or so will be a better honey grind than any actual honey grind.
• FATE The Slavering Dream-Hound unlocks a standard frequency opportunity card with an option that gives 200 drops of honey. While not technically grindable, assuming that a player draws cards in London regularly this can easily provide enough honey for most needs, at higher efficiency than any grindable source. See Breeding Monsters (Guide) for details.

Romantic Notion

Spite

• 5-24 for A recipe of Mrs Chapman's own or Take biscuits in the parlour from Mrs Chapman's Boarding House for Those Who Temporarily Have Nowhere Else To Go storylet, depending on base Persuasive; requires The Season in Soup at exactly 1 or 2 (currently available).

Polythreme Streets

• 8 for Observe the camaraderie of objects from One Might Profit Even in Such a Place storylet at Watchful 80
• 12 for Lurk in the eaves from One Might Profit Even in Such a Place storylet at Shadowy 120
• 60 for Speak to the Clay priest of matters romantic and What's that fluttering?; see Polythremic Promenade (Guide) for more information.

Port Cecil

• 7 for Instruct the lamp-cats in the coral calcification of the locals and 20 for Convince the miners and lamp-cats of their commonality, for a total of up to 182 over the 14-action Port Cecil carousel (with 13 Monstrous Anatomy and 10 Mithridacy for 100% challenge check), averages 13 per action.

Khan's Heart

• 25 for Take a walk through the Khan's gardens; over the course of the Khanate's day/night cycle, averages 8.3 per action.

Other

• Upconverting Drop of Prisoner's Honey; with Honey obtained from Doing the decent thing, this averages 9.5 per action. Using Send him out for a little more honey becomes more efficient around 120 Persuasive, and if you can 100% the check works out to 21 per action.
• 4 from Study the image; requires An Exemplary Work of Lapsarian Theological Art

Vision of the Surface

Spite

• 1-5 per action for A soupçon of the Surface or Promenade (Season 4) from Mrs Chapman's Boarding House for Those Who Temporarily Have Nowhere Else To Go storylet, depending on base Persuasive; requires The Season in Soup at exactly 2 or 4 (currently available).

Viric Jungle

• ( Intensity of the Dream x 4) for Let this vista influence the dreamers of the Royal Beth; requires A Bright Brass Button. See Oneiropomp (Guide) for more information.

Other

• Sideconverting Correspondence Plaques; with plaques from Newspaper-sourced Journal of Infamy, this gives 6.29 per action.
• 24 for For someone who has it all, or at least most of it on A Gift from the Capering Relicker after reaching Someone Is Coming level 4 via opportunity cards. Requires being a PoSI. One full cycle takes 11 actions, which averages 2.18 per action. See Someone Is Coming (Guide) for more information.
• Upconverting Romantic Notions; With Notions sourced from Lurk in the eaves, this averages 2.46 per action.
• Buy Maniac's Prayer in The Rat Market, then upconvert once and sideconvert 1 times. Depending on the efficiency of your source of Rat-Shillings, this gives the following overall efficiency:

/action:	30	40	50	60
/action:	5.42	6.87	8.18	9.37

Touching Love Story

Spite

• 1 on an alternative success (40%) for Ambush a few couriers for old times' sake (2 actions) at Shadowy 100; requires PoSI

The Crowds of Spite

• 1 for Dispose of thirty Trophies (See The Crowds of Spite (Guide))
• 1 for Meet him head-on from the card Jack!

The Flit

• 8 from ...a Sealed Archive when robbing Baseborn & Fowlingpiece; has a rare chance (~18.24%) of a Searing Enigma instead; see On a Heist (Guide) for more information. Alternatively, 16 from ...a Captivating Ballad when seeking ...a very particular treasure; costs a Hiding Place of a Peculiar Item.

The Rat Market

• Can be purchased for 50 from Crow-Crease Cryptics (100% markup)
• Can be achieved for much cheaper by buying Maniac's Prayers for 1 , bulk upconverting, sideconverting, and upconverting again. The conversion actions work out to 5.28 EPA profit in Touching Love Stories. (Note: This only means that through the conversions you will receive 5.28 more EPA in TLS than if you would buy them directly from the rat market. Since there are other available, better grinds than buying TLS directly from the rat market this number is probably not relevant to you)

The Forgotten Quarter

• Expeditions to a thieves' cache (cost 10 x Crate of Expedition Supplies, 1 x Favours: Criminals and at least 6 actions) have a 25% chance of giving 3.

The Whisker-Ways FATE

• Up to 5 from the Mythopoesis carousel, reaching up to 0.44 per action without expending materials. See The Whisker-Ways (Guide) for more information.

Polythreme Streets

• 12 for A walk in the villa gardens (see Polythremic Promenade (Guide))

Irem

• 1 Dismal Victuals (which can be sold for Stories) for Scavenge for miserable sustenance on The Hunger in A Ruinous Future. See Irem (Guide) for more information.

Balmoral

• Fence this identity gives an amount depending on the complexity of your identity with Cover Identity: Ties 2 - Bazaar. Pays out a maximum of 28 over 30 actions (0.93 per action) and requires 1 x Favours: Society. For players with Surveilling Spindlewolf, no favours are needed and the efficiency increases to 0.97 per action. See Cover Identities (Guide) for more information.

Khan's Heart

• Can be purchased from Midnight Market for 10 x Assortment of Khaganian Coinage

The Hurlers

• 5-6 for Trade one Magnificent Diamond

Other

• Upconverting Vision of the Surface; with visions sideconverted from newspaper journals, this gives 1.12 per action.
• Discordant Ripples (Following) 1 gives 1
• 2 per action from selling A Sealed Copy of the Crimson Book, obtained during Whitsun using a Vial of Masters' Blood, ground at 5 EPA in The City of the Tracklayers, and cashed out through Request a trophy from a shared enemy

Bazaar Permit

The Flit

• 1 from the Steal a Bazaar Permit from the offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece option from Thefts of Particular Character, costing -32 CP Casing...; with Well-planned villainy, this costs 11 actions per permit, and with Parabolan casing ~5.57 actions. See the Casing Guide for more info.

• 2 from ...Mr Baseborn's Papers when robbing Baseborn & Fowlingpiece; see On a Heist (Guide) for more information.

Bazaar Side-Streets

• Obtain a Permit from the Bazaar costs 10 x Vision of the Surface and 100 x Romantic Notion, worth 15 .

Polythreme Streets

• 2 for There's someone in there; see Polythremic Promenade (Guide) for more information.

Balmoral/London

• 1 for Unveil your Painting (Luminosity); see Painting in Balmoral (Guide) for more information.

The Copper Quarter/London

• Cracking open a crate from the the Peaceable & Godly Trading Company has a 1 in 10 chance of giving 1-2.

Khan's Heart

• 2 for Deliver the Mummified Priest to the Khagan or 5 for Leak the location of the warehouse to the Bazaar, requiring at least 12 actions and an Emetic Revelation; see Khaganian Intrigue (Guide) for more information.

Station VIII

• 1 for Present Mr Fires with Flambéd Peppercap Pâté, costing 9.50 in materials (and returning 5 ) and 3 actions per Permit, plus one action per batch to land Fires at the station.

Moulin

• 1 for selling an Exceptional Thesis to The Fidgeting Factor; see Writing a Monograph (Guide) for more information.

Other

• Upconverting 25 Touching Love Story, at the cost of 1 Favours: Bohemians; with stories upconverted from visions from newspaper journals this reaches 0.21 permits per action, or ~4.76 actions per permit.
• 1 for Smash it; costs a Lens of Black Glass, takes on average 56.23 actions and 47.71 in materials. See Fidgeting Writer (Guide) for more information.
• 3 for Tribute from your Rival of Power at the end of the 34-action Fighting a War of Assassins carousel.

Agents

• 1 for the Intelligencier plot Breaking and Entering; Takes 185 actions and ends with a Shadowy 55 challenge. It is NOT rewarded if your agent fails the check.

Holy Sanguinarine Ointment

Gaider's Mourn

• 4 for Observe the Blue Prophets

Other

• 5 for Prepare a Holy Sanguinarine Ointment; requires Salve of Righteousness. Alternatively 130 for Go into production using up the Salve of Righteousness.
• 1 in 32 chance of receiving one when milking a hellworm; requires Your Very Own Miniature Hellworm or Your Very Own Miniature Hellworm, Saddled and Bridled.

Discriminating Aconite

The Museum of Prelapsarian History

• 5 for Ask Gebrandt for her help with a chemical conundrum; costs 1250 x Curator's Gratitude; with Curator's Gratitude obtained as described in the guide, this gives around 1.7 aconite per action.

Other

• 126 for Repackage the lot using a Distillation of Retribution. Alternatively, 1 for Prepare a Delicate Poison; does not consume the Distillation
• 1 in 32 chance of receiving one when milking a hellworm; requires Your Very Own Miniature Hellworm or Your Very Own Miniature Hellworm, Saddled and Bridled

Emetic Revelation

Watchmaker's Hill

• 1 out of 6 chance of receiving 1 once per week from any of the trades on The Starved Embassy.

The Singing Mandrake

• 1 from Accept the contents of a large cocoon, also gives a Lost Research Assistant; requires at least 10 actions (~15 actions at Persuasive 200) per revelation. See The Spider Symposium (Guide) for more information.

The Museum of Prelapsarian History

• 10% chance from Have a taste of the Toxicology Exhibit after getting A Name Scrawled in Blood 7, at the average cost of +2.4CP Wounds per attempt (+6CP on success). Also awards +1CP Kataleptic Toxicology below level 3 on success.
• ~10% chance (ignoring rare success) from Provenance an artefact ( Watchful 90 challenge), costs 1x Unprovenanced Artefact and 375x Cryptic Clue per attempt.

University Laboratory

• 2 (among other rewards) for finishing Make a study of a few samples from a Starved citadel. At 25 research/action, this will be (550/25+2)/2 = 12 actions per Emetic Relevation. Since you receive 37.5 per research in Extraordinary Implication, the inputs are effectively free (ignoring travel cost to get the Starved Expression), with a net gain of 2.92 /A.

Arbor, of the Roses

• 1 from Feed some of your Attar to your squirrel (requires WHITSUN Quizzical Squirrel), costs 4 Attar

Port Cecil

• 1 for Bear witness to a lamp-cat ritual at the end of the 14-action Port Cecil carousel

Hallow's Throat

• 1 for Emerge as a freshly-made self in the Ecdysis activity, taking 11 actions

Khan's Heart

• 5 weekly from Receive the latest 'reports' from your 'agent'
• 1 for 10 worth of items that varies from week to week; see The Precocious Engineer for more information

Other

• 1 for a success at Sell lightbulbs to Londoners; costs 100 x Khaganian Lightbulb. If these are purchased from the Midnight Market for a total of 2000 Moon-Pearls, and the Moon-Pearls are optimally obtained from The Stacks by selling the resulting Roof-Charts to The Midnight Market at 506 Moon-Pearls per action, this gives 1 Emetic Revelation in just under 5 actions.

Captivating Ballad

Spite

• 1 for Send an Unfinished Man to Mahogany Hall; requires at least 21 actions per Ballad (with 15 ). More typical rates of 30 Convincing Falsehoods per action require 23 actions per Ballad. See Underclay (Guide) for more information.

On a Heist

• 1 for ...a Captivating Ballad, one of the payouts of the The shaded estate on Hemlock Row heist; costs Hiding Place of a Peculiar Item. See On a Heist (Guide) for more information.

Risen Burgundy

• 1 for A chivalric romance, at the end of the 10-action card-based Burgundian Beneficence carousel; see Risen Burgundy (Guide)

The City of the Tracklayers

• 1 for (6,250) x Hinterland Prosperity, on the card The Flow of Commerce; with maximum Hinterland Efficiency, this takes ~13 actions

A Tasting Flight of Targeted Toxins

Other

• 1 for Assemble a Tasting Flight of Targeted Toxins; this costs 50 x Emetic Revelation, 125 x Discriminating Aconite, 625 x Holy Sanguinarine Ointment, 500 x Hand-picked Peppercaps, and 625 Venom-Ruby.