Offer your (growth type) to the Sneering Horticulturalist

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From: Vertiginous Horticulture

And your notes, too. She still has connections in London – even from the rooftops, her favour carries weight.

Description summary:
The title varies with Rooftop Growth, Classification:

Rooftop Growth, Classification:	Type
1: Plantae	plant
2: Fungi	fungus

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Game Instructions: You will get a Favour in High Places, and perhaps some Intriguing Snippets.

Unlocked with Rooftop Growth:, Nurturing a Rooftop Growth 105

Success

The gift of growth

[...]

The Sneering Horticulturalist [...] mouth that suggests 'I could have done it better' [...]. Whatever her true thoughts, she takes you to a townhouse roof and informs you of the precise wording of a coded pleasantry that'll put the businessman below in your debt.

Description summary:
The first paragraph varies with Rooftop Growth.

Rooftop Growth:	Description
1: Singular Cuttings	Your cuttings have grown tall and leafy, the primary shoots now attended by tangles of thorny fronds. Their boughs hang heavy with skull-like fruit. Every so often, a fruit will scream. [...]
2: 'Dawn-Yodeller' Mandrakes	The mandrakes wriggle and writhe as you pull them from the earth. Their colouration has deepened to the jaundiced yellow that signifies full maturity. As soon as they are free from their shallow cradle of dirt, they do what they do best, and ululate. […]
3: Prize-Winning Peppercaps	The peppercaps are perfectly round and wine-purple, adorned with a lurid dappling of yellow spots. […] mature enough that they absolutely should not be handled without gloves. […] Not necessarily a good flavour, mind, but sometimes one takes what one can get.
4: Recusant Marigolds	[…] regimented rows, vivid and many-petalled and glorious, the rosy orange of a sky in mid-surrender to the dawn. Here in grime-shadowed London, they look out of place – […] even the whitest stucco in Elderwick cannot compare to the very walls of Hell.
5: False-Cantigaster Hybrids	Your hybrids are stunted and ailing, even grown under ideal conditions. The bleak, fleshy colouration inspires little confidence. Irregular pulses of foul ichors seep from beneath the caps, oozing between frills […] These are not happy things.
6: Millennium Roses	[...] They are the ideal of roses: red as want, each petal [...] a waiting lip [...]. The Fifth City appears bleached in comparison to their bright perfection. On the Continent, they say these flower for a thousand years – how long will London's soil sustain them?
7: Tomorrowspore Ortcaps	Your Ortcaps stand tall and thin and raggedy – swaying, feather-edged mushrooms in monochrome blacks and greys, white lacy skirts spreading beneath the caps. [...] your mind wandering to daydreams of the future, or mired in vivid recollections of the past. [...]

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•  You've gained 1 x Favour in High Places
•  You've gained ( Nurturing a Rooftop Growth - 105) / 2) x Intriguing Snippet
•  The True Horticultural Society thanks you for your contributions. (Increases Rooftop Growth: by 100)
•  You are no longer undertaking a horticultural project. (Resets Rooftop Growth, Classification: to 0)
•  You no longer have to be quite so conscious of the light levels around here. (Resets Rooftop Growth, Light Preference: to 0)
•  The unlicensed allotment is empty once more. (Resets Rooftop Growth, Difficulty: to 0)
•  Ah, they grow up so fast. (Resets Nurturing a Rooftop Growth to 0)