On a Heist (Guide)

Early MYN Content and Onwards

On a Heist Summary

Locked Limited-Length Activity

Setup

1 A

Progress

3++ A

End

1 A

Progress Details

Raise The Burglar's Progress to 5 before Cat-Like Tread hits 0.

Items Inputs/Outputs

Start-up

• Casing... 5

And for some Heists also:

• 5 x Favours: Criminals
• 3 x Favours: The Docks
• A Deviless' Address
• Hiding Place of a Peculiar Item

Boosting

Casing... 10 CP:

• 1 x Escape Route

Casing... 5 CP:

• Inside Information
• Intriguing Key

On the Heist

• Set of Kifers
• Set of Intricate Kifers
• Untrained Lyrebird
• Appalling Secret
• Connected: The Duchess

Outputs

• An Identity Uncovered!
• Sworn Statement
• Shard of Glim
• Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
• Touching Love Story
• Searing Enigma
• Bazaar Permit
• Cryptic Clue
• Ostentatious Diamond
• Surface-Silk Scrap
• Magnificent Diamond
• Puzzle-Damask Scrap
• Favour in High Places
• Live Specimen
• Puzzling Map
• Silent Soul
• Muscaria Brandy
• Brass Ring
• Favours: Hell
• Vital Intelligence
• Unprovenanced Artefact
• Memory of Distant Shores
• Presbyterate Passphrase
• Ancient Hunting Rifle
• Antique Mystery
• Dubious Testimony
• Stolen Correspondence
• Justificande Coin
• Legal Document
• Map Scrap
• Discordant Soul
• Fistful of Surface Currency
• Piece of Rostygold
• Brilliant Soul
• False Hagiotoponym
• Apostate's Psalm
• Captivating Ballad
• Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures
• Chimerical Archive
• Nicatorean Relic
• Relic of the Fourth City
• Relic of the Second City
• Relic of the Third City
• Obsidian Chitin Tail
• Femur of a Jurassic Beast
• Femur of a Surface Deer

Raw EPA

4.53

See On a Heist (Guide)/Cards for a breakdown of the cards you encounter during the heist

This Guide will cover the mechanics behind heists, which are available from the Plan a Heist area of The Flit. While on a heist, you draw from a unique deck of opportunity cards and attempt to raise The Burglar's Progress to at least 5 without reducing Cat-Like Tread to 0.

Heists are part of the A Name Whispered in Darkness section of the Making Your Name storyline, and are also a means of obtaining a variety of useful items, including some that are much more costly or difficult to obtain elsewhere.

Preparation

Preparing for a heist involves choosing a target, raising Casing..., and purchasing advantages (optional). Depending on the heist, you might also want to equip items to boost certain stats, or have certain qualities.

Choose a target

You can choose from the available targets at Planning a Heist. Depending on the target, you'll encounter different levels of Target Security:.

1. Shuttered: Cards contain Luck challenges and opportunities to use advantages. Experienced players may not need extra preparation.
2. Triple-bolted: Some no-risk cards are replaced with Luck challenges. It's probably a good idea to bring some Inside Information for everyone, just in case.
3. Well-Guarded: Additional replacement of cards with more difficult ones, including options with challenges above Shadowy 100. You'll probably want extra preparations.
4. Perilous: More replacement cards, now with challenges requiring advanced (MAGCATS) skills. Don't do these heists unprepared.

Certain opportunity cards will only appear when the target is a particular security level. Additionally, some targets require Favours or other items in order to attempt. If you're after a specific reward, you'll also want to check the Loot section below.

Available Targets

Target	Requires	Security
The House on Cubit Square		Shuttered
The offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece		Triple-Bolted
The Balustraded House in Elderwick	5 x Favours: Criminals	Triple-Bolted
The Circumspect Envoy's Townhouse	No Purloined Paperwork	Triple-Bolted
Making Your Name: the records office in Concord Square	A Name Whispered in Darkness exactly 5	Triple-Bolted
The home of an Admiral's Widow	3 x Favours: The Docks Shadowy 100	Well-Guarded
The mansion of an Unsympathetic Landlord	Shadowy 100	Well-Guarded
The Museum of Prelapsarian History (Heist)		Well-Guarded
The townhouse of a Discerning Deviless	5 x Favours: Criminals A Deviless' Address	Perilous
The shaded estate on Hemlock Row	Hiding Place of a Peculiar Item Shadowy 200	Perilous

Build up Casing

To embark on any heist, you need to build up Casing... to at least 5. Building up more Casing will enable you to purchase advantages, which can help you avoid failing the heist or unlock advantageous options.

There are a variety of ways to raise Casing under Preparing for a Big Score, but Casing you raise in other areas can also be applied here. Consult the Casing guide for a full list of sources.

Ideally, you don't want to build up more Casing than you need, as it will be reset when you start the heist. You only need 15 CP (required to start any heist) + however much you want to spend on advantages. Refer to the Casing guide to determine how best to get the amount of Casing you want without wasting actions.

Purchase advantages

Once you've raised Casing to 5, you can Get ready for your Heist!, which gives you a chance to purchase various advantages. If purchasing any of these options causes your Casing to drop below 5, you'll need to raise it up again before you can actually embark on the heist.

• Purchase Escape Routes ( 10 CP Casing...): Lets you escape from the heist at any time without getting caught. However it unlocks the bad card A Nosy Caretaker which forces you to lose the route (but make 1 Burglar's Progress) or risk a loss of Cat-Like Tread. You might want to purchase one of these the first time you embark on a heist so you have breathing room while you're learning the mechanics, but purchasing them for subsequent heists is suboptimal.
• Purchase Inside Information ( 5 CP Casing...): Unlocks advantageous options on a number of cards. This is a good purchase, and 2 should be enough to finish a job successfully unless you draw very unfortunately.
• Purchase a copy of an Intriguing Key ( 5 CP Casing...): Similarly to Inside Information, unlocks advantageous options on some cards. As there are fewer cards that use those, it is generally more useful to purchase Inside Information instead, but purchasing a single key can be worthwhile as some of the card results from using this key result in bonus loot (generally Diamonds).

How many advantages should I purchase?

Generally as many as you feel comfortable with; which for most players is from 3 to 5; as the consequences of getting caught are quite harsh. Another factor to consider is whether or not you're going for ...Mr Baseborn's Papers, if you are then purchasing 5 advantages virtually guarantees that you'll get the 7 Burglar's Progress needed no matter how badly you draw.

All in all, for normal heists the most action optimal option is to purchase 3 advantages; either 3 x Inside Information or 2 x Inside Information and 1 x Intriguing Key.

Equipment

When you're on a heist, you won't be able to change your outfit. Make sure you're equipped to handle the challenges in the heist you've chosen (by referring to the cards associated with that level of Target Security). Some general tips:

• For triple-bolted targets, you may want a modified Shadowy of at least 100, not for challenges, but rather because having 100 Shadowy unlocks options that you otherwise cannot take, for triple-bolted and below your equipment should focus on maximising Dreaded instead of Shadowy. For Well-Guarded and Perilous targets, modified shadowy up to 200 is an advantage as you start to receive actual Shadowy challenges at this level.
• If you have Dreaded equipment, this can be helpful on the card A Burly Night-Watchman (you'll need Dreaded 3 to attempt it, and Dreaded 10 to 100% the check). If you own an Untrained Lyrebird, you can deploy that instead (without needing it equipped), so there's no need to worry about your Dreaded.
• Having Connected: The Duchess 20 opens a good option on A Talkative Cat.
• Having an exit route unlocks a bad card, meaning it's not a good idea to get exit routes if you don't need them.
• On Perilous heists, The Sleeping... Dogs? card requires either Monstrous Anatomy 12 to 100%, or Shapeling Arts 8 and Inside Information.
• Also on Perilous heists, the card An Intricate Lock has an option to either use up an Intriguing Key, or attempt a Glasswork challenge (needing Glasswork 12 to 100%).

The Heist

View all the cards available while On a Heist, or the Guide for those cards

During the heist, you will need to raise The Burglar's Progress to 5 (or 7, if targeting Baseborn & Fowlingpiece and attempting Mr Baseborn's Papers), without losing all 3 of your initial Cat-Like Tread. You do this by drawing from a unique opportunity deck of non-discardable cards; consult that guide for a full list of available cards and some strategy tips for what to play when.

There are three ways a heist can end:

• Winning: After acquiring 5 Burglar's Progress, you will draw A Prize Achieved! with ubiquitous frequency. You usually need to draw around two cards until you get it. This and Fleeing will later send you to After the Burglary which removes heist-related qualities and items and gives Suspicion and Making Waves. Check the page for details.
• Fleeing: Either by using your Escape Route or certain options on cards, you can end the heist without loot but also without...
• Getting Caught: Without any points of Cat-Like Tread left all cards and storylets are disabled but one where you try to get Up and away! Here you will get 4 CP to Suspicion or instantly gain Suspicion 9 in an either way luck challenge. This usually means you would go to prison, but you can avoid this by having another player accept already sent requests to cover for you before clicking onwards. Imprisoned or not, you do not gain anything but infamy.

The Loot

Options on A Prize Achieved! depend on what place you decided to burgle.

The records office in Concord Square

Once only, as part of A Name Whispered in Darkness

Option	Rewards	Value
...the Constables' store of records	50 CP Shadowy 4 x An Identity Uncovered! 4 x Sworn Statement	20

The House on Cubit Square

Option	Rewards	Value
...Mr Leadbeater's Fortune	20 CP Shadowy 1650 x Shard of Glim	16.50
	Rare (50%) 20 CP Shadowy 1500 x Shard of Glim 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844	17.50

The offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece

With the current odds of getting a Searing Enigma being 5%, the Sealed Archive version of this heist is worth 22.1 on average: (8 x 2.5 x 0.95) + (62.5 x 0.05). The value for Mr Baseborn's Papers is 27 and is likely to have better EPA.

Option	Rewards	Value
...a Sealed Archive	20 CP Shadowy 8 x Touching Love Story	20
	Rare (5%) 20 CP Shadowy 1 x Searing Enigma	62.50
...Mr Baseborn's Papers Requires: 7 The Burglar's Progress	20 CP Shadowy 2 x Bazaar Permit 100 x Cryptic Clue	27

The Balustraded House in Elderwick

Option	Rewards	Value
Keep her secret. It's only fair.	10 x Ostentatious Diamond 25 x Surface-Silk Scrap 1 x Magnificent Diamond 1 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap	32.50
Expose her	10 x Ostentatious Diamond 25 x Surface-Silk Scrap 1 x Favour in High Places 1 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap	32.50

The Circumspect Envoy's Townhouse

Sets Purloined Paperwork quality to 1, 2, 3 or 4 depending on the chosen prize, which can be traded in at After a Heist: The Trade in Secrets:

Option	Rewards	Value
Deliver to the Glass: any Paperwork	2 x Live Specimen 1 x Puzzling Map 1 x Silent Soul	30
Deliver to the Brass Embassy: Paperwork 1–3	6 x Muscaria Brandy 1 x Brass Ring 1 x Favours: Hell	27 31.20
Trade with the Ambassador: Paperwork 1 ( scrolls about the Kingdom of Vesture)	2 x Vital Intelligence 2 x Unprovenanced Artefact	30 38
Trade with the Ambassador: Paperwork 2 ( a series on the succession laws of Arbor)	1 x Favour in High Places 1 x Magnificent Diamond 10 x Memory of Distant Shores	30
Trade with the Ambassador: Paperwork 3 ( the vellum book on the Rosers)	2 x Presbyterate Passphrase 1 x Favour in High Places 1 x Vital Intelligence	30 38
Trade with the Ambassador: Paperwork 4 (a set of wax tablets, inscribed with ancient treaties)	1 x Ancient Hunting Rifle 1 x Antique Mystery 5 x Dubious Testimony 1 x Unprovenanced Artefact	30

The Vault of Impounded Contraband in Concord Square

Option	Rewards	Value
The Vault of Impounded Possessions	20 CP Shadowy 100 x Cryptic Clue Sets Procuring Cantigaster Venom to 3	2

The home of an Admiral's Widow

One Justificande Coin is needed to Buy your way in to your own Lab (along with other requirements) at The University. Certain other endgame content requires them as well.

Option	Rewards	Value
The Widow's Bedchamber Requires: 3 x Favours: The Docks	1 x Stolen Correspondence 3 x Justificande Coin 2 x Legal Document 5 x Map Scrap	25.55

The townhouse of a Discerning Deviless, where she keeps her souls

Option	Rewards	Value
The Deviless' Vitrine Requires: A Deviless' Address 5x  Favours: Criminals	Discordant Soul sets Shadowy Gains to 6	0

The mansion of an Unsympathetic Landlord

Option	Rewards	Value
The Landlord's Safe	35-70 CP Shadowy 340 x Fistful of Surface Currency 1200 x Piece of Rostygold 6-38 x Brilliant Soul	33.50

The hiding-place of a precious treasure

Option	Rewards	Value
A Treasure Uncovered Requires: Hiding Place of a Peculiar Item Shadowy 200	1 x False Hagiotoponym 16 x Apostate's Psalm	102.50 122.50
	1 x Captivating Ballad 16 x Touching Love Story	102.50 122.50
	1 x Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures 16 x Sworn Statement	102.50
	1 x Chimerical Archive 16 x Nicatorean Relic	102.50 122.50

The Museum of Prelapsarian History

Option	Rewards	Value
...the Archaeology Wing	35-70 CP Shadowy 110 x Relic of the Fourth City 60 x Relic of the Second City 35 x Relic of the Third City 2 x Unprovenanced Artefact	23
...the Osteology Wing	35-70 CP Shadowy 5 x Obsidian Chitin Tail 4 x Femur of a Jurassic Beast 5 x Femur of a Surface Deer	37.50 43.125