Offices of the Tracklayer's Union: Balmoral Branch
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The station has been built discreetly downhill from the castle, so as not to spoil the vista: it has a faintly apologetic air [...] The Tracklayers' office is only staffed a few hours each day, and the amenities perhaps not quite what you are used to.
Storylet appears in 
Balmoral
Options:
Present the union members with a good-will gift
- Spoiler Unlocked with
1 x Sausage About Which No One Complains, 
1 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits, 
Tracklayers' Displeasure
Success
A grateful silence
You've lost 1 x Sausage About Which No One Complains
You've lost 1 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits
Tracklayers' Displeasure is dropping… (-3 CP)
Slip through the mirror
- Spoiler
Reenter your Cabinet Noir
- Spoiler
Intercepting Documents
Intercept a piece of post
- Spoiler Locked with
Intercepted Document
Challenge information
Broad,
Shadowy 200 || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)Success
A dead drop, detected
Shadowy is increasing…
You've intercepted the most interesting post from your train's baggage. (Sets 
Intercepted Document to 6 to 10)
Conclusion: Review vital intelligence or Review vital intelligence with blackmail potential
Failure
From the bottom of the post
- Shadowy is increasing…
- You've intercepted the most interesting post from your train's baggage. (Sets Intercepted Document to 2 to 5)
Conclusion: Call it a practice run
^
Steal a curious document from the Tracklayers' Office
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Following up Rumours of Cornelius 3
Locked with Intercepted Document
Challenge information
Broad,
Shadowy 200 || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)Success
Not a difficult theft
- Shadowy is increasing…
- You've intercepted the most interesting post from your train's baggage. (Sets Intercepted Document to 12)
Conclusion: Plans for the Neath or Plans for the Neath 2
Failure
Just at the wrong moment
^
Developing Assets at Balmoral
Construct a Cabinet Noir
- Spoiler Unlocked with
(50 × (
Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
Locked with Cabinet Noir
Success
A distraction from the true purpose
You've lost (50 × ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development- You have built a small room off the Balmoral station where you can inspect paperwork and conceal your own activities at your leisure. (Sets Cabinet Noir to 1 - Your Cabinet is a small room off the Balmoral station where you can inspect paperwork and conceal your own activities at your leisure)
Redirects to: Work in your Cabinet Noir
^
Expand your Cabinet Noir
- Spoiler Unlocked with (50 x ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip, Cabinet Noir exactly 1,
Disappearing... 3
Success
A distraction from the true purpose
- You've lost (50 x ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
- You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
- Your Cabinet is a room off the Balmoral station where you can both inspect and forge documents. (Sets Cabinet Noir to 2 - Your Cabinet is a room off the Balmoral station where you can both inspect and forge documents)
'Disappearing...' has been reset: a conclusion, or a new beginning?
- Redirects to: Work in your Cabinet Noir
Further expand your Cabinet Noir
- Spoiler Unlocked with (50 x ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip, Cabinet Noir exactly 2,
Cover Identity: Elaboration 2
Success
A distraction from the true purpose
- You've lost (50 x ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
- You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
- You have expanded your Cabinet Noir to allow for more elaborate forgeries and creations. (Sets Cabinet Noir to 3 - Your Cabinet Noir is a substantial multi-room suite off Balmoral Station, equipped for a host of self-concealing activities)
You have exhausted the usefulness of your most recent cover identity. (Resets 
Cover Identity: Elaboration to 0)- Your 'Cover Identity: Credentials' Quality has gone!
Your 'Cover Identity: Nuance' Quality has gone!
Your 'Cover Identity: Witnesses' Quality has gone!- You've gained 1 x Fabricator of Past Lives
Redirects to: Work in your Cabinet Noir
^
Further expand your Cabinet Noir
- Spoiler Unlocked with (50 x ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip, Cabinet Noir exactly 3, Cover Identity: Elaboration 3, Cover Identity: Credentials
Success
A distraction from the true purpose
- You've lost (50 x ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
- You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
- You have hollowed out a basement under Balmoral Station and extended your Cabinet Noir. Your activities are very questionable, but wholly unquestioned. (Sets Cabinet Noir to 4 - Balmoral Station is a diversion. This building really chiefly belongs to your Cabinet Noir – including an extensive set of basement offices – designed to manage your cover identities, encryption and decryption exercises, and interventions in the Great Game)
- You have exhausted the usefulness of your most recent cover identity. (Resets Cover Identity: Elaboration to 0)
Your 'Cover Identity: Backstory' Quality has gone!- Your 'Cover Identity: Credentials' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Nuance' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Witnesses' Quality has gone!
- You've gained 1 x Fabricator of Past Lives
Redirects to: Work in your Cabinet Noir
^
Install an enormous mirror in your Cabinet Noir
- Spoiler Unlocked with
(50 x ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip, Cabinet Noir 1
Locked with
Private Mirror at Balmoral
Success
Not a mere looking glass
- You've lost (50 × ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
- You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
You've installed a safe mirror in an unvisited corner of Balmoral Station. (Sets 
Private Mirror at Balmoral to 1 - You've installed a safe mirror in an unvisited corner of Balmoral Station)
Put up a statue in honour of the Empress' Consort
- Spoiler Unlocked with
(50 × ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
Locked with
Balmoral Commemorative Development
Success
Pomp and circumstance
- You've lost (50 × ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
- You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
An occurrence! Your 'Balmoral Commemorative Development' Quality is now 1 - Statue to the Empress' Consort!
Put up a statue in honour of the Captivating Princess
- Spoiler Unlocked with
(50 × ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip, 
Acquaintance: the Captivating Princess
Locked with Balmoral Commemorative Development
Success
Approximation
- You've lost (50 × ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
- You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
- An occurrence! Your 'Balmoral Commemorative Development' Quality is now 2 - Statue to the Captivating Princess!
Put up a statue in honour of your Cover Identity (which is to say, yourself)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
(50 × ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip, Cover Identity: Elaboration 5, 
Cover Identity: Backstory 5, 
Cover Identity: Ties exactly 2, Cover Identity: Credentials, 
Cover Identity: Nuance, 
Cover Identity: Witnesses
Locked with Balmoral Commemorative Development
Success
The most vivid description
You have a new Accomplishment... Honoured with a Statue -! (Increases 
Honoured with a Statue - by 1)- You've lost (50 × ( Balmoral Development + 1)) x Hinterland Scrip
- You've gained 1 x Balmoral Development
- An occurrence! Your 'Balmoral Commemorative Development' Quality is now 20 - Statue to Yourself, in a Disguise of your Own Invention!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Backstory' Quality has gone!
- You have exhausted the usefulness of your most recent cover identity. (Removes all Cover Identity: Elaboration)
- Your 'Cover Identity: Credentials' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Witnesses' Quality has gone!
- Your 'Cover Identity: Nuance' Quality has gone!
Your 'Cover Identity: Ties' Quality has gone!- You've gained 1 x Fabricator of Past Lives
Tear down the Statue to (Subject)
- Spoiler Unlocked with
Balmoral Commemorative Development, 
1 x Strong-Backed Labour, 
1 x Favour in High Places, 1 x Much-Needed Gap
Success
Difficult work
You've lost 1 x Strong-Backed Labour- Your 'Balmoral Commemorative Development' Quality has gone!
- You've lost 1 x Balmoral Development
- You've lost 1 x Much-Needed Gap
You've lost 1 x Favour in High Places
With
Balmoral Commemorative Development 20 - Statue to Yourself, in a Disguise of your Own Invention
- You've lost 1 x Honoured with a Statue -
Your 'The Inescapable Ubiquity of your Countenance' Quality has gone!
