Paying Your Way

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ID: 347089

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The wheels of advancement are oiled with gifts. Bribes, you say? Well, if you were being uncouth. And do these people really understand commerce?

Game Instructions: The prices rise as your endeavours progress.

Unlocked with 2 x Unnatural Exuberance

Storylet appears in Polythreme Streets

Unnatural Exuberance 8-11

Give surface-silk to Clay Men

•  Spoiler ID: 254329
  

  Unlocked with 25 x Surface-Silk Scrap, Unnatural Exuberance 8
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Sartorial Cooperation 0 (50% base) || 0 - very chancy (50%) || 1 - chancy (60%) || 2 - modest (70%) || 3 - very modest (80%) || 4 - low-risk (90%) || 5 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  When we were one

  •  ALLURE is increasing… (+20 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 25 x Surface-Silk Scrap

  Failure

  Where does this colour come from?

  •  ALLURE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 25 x Surface-Silk Scrap

  ^

Offer silks to a clothes-colony

•  Spoiler ID: 254332
  

  Unlocked with 25 x Surface-Silk Scrap, Unnatural Exuberance 8
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Sartorial Cooperation 0 (50% base) || 0 - very chancy (50%) || 1 - chancy (60%) || 2 - modest (70%) || 3 - very modest (80%) || 4 - low-risk (90%) || 5 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  A closeness

  •  COGNISANCE is increasing… (+20 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 25 x Surface-Silk Scrap

  Failure

  One more on the pile

  •  COGNISANCE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 25 x Surface-Silk Scrap

  ^

Unnatural Exuberance 5-7

Spread tales of love and glamour

•  Spoiler ID: 254330
  

  Unlocked with 50 x Romantic Notion, Unnatural Exuberance 5-7
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Sartorial Cooperation -1 (50% base) || 0 - chancy (60%) || 1 - modest (70%) || 2 - very modest (80%) || 3 - low-risk (90%) || 4 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  A great success

  •  ALLURE is increasing… (+20 CP)
  •  COGNISANCE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 50 x Romantic Notion

  Failure

  A practical romance

  •  ALLURE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 50 x Romantic Notion

  ^

Speak of romance to an empty garden

•  Spoiler ID: 254333
  

  Unlocked with 50 x Romantic Notion, Unnatural Exuberance 5-7
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Sartorial Cooperation -1 (50% base) || 0 - chancy (60%) || 1 - modest (70%) || 2 - very modest (80%) || 3 - low-risk (90%) || 4 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  A convenient sort of union

  •  COGNISANCE is increasing… (+20 CP)
  •  ALLURE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 50 x Romantic Notion

  Failure

  A deaf ear?

  •  COGNISANCE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 50 x Romantic Notion

  ^

Unnatural Exuberance 2-4

Speak of the Elder Continent at Arcimboldo's

•  Spoiler ID: 254331
  

  Unlocked with 25 x Mystery of the Elder Continent, Unnatural Exuberance 2-4
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Sartorial Cooperation -3 (50% base) || 0 - very modest (80%) || 1 - low-risk (90%) || 2 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  A sudden and specific interest

  •  ALLURE is increasing… (+40 CP)
  •  COGNISANCE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 25 x Mystery of the Elder Continent

  Failure

  An afternoon with some rather robust coffee

  •  ALLURE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 25 x Mystery of the Elder Continent

  ^

Present your findings to an academic gone native

•  Spoiler ID: 254334
  

  Unlocked with 5 x Volume of Collated Research, Unnatural Exuberance 2-4
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Sartorial Cooperation -2 (50% base) || 0 - modest (70%) || 1 - very modest (80%) || 2 - low-risk (90%) || 3 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  Encouraging

  •  ALLURE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  •  COGNISANCE is increasing… (+40 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 5 x Volume of Collated Research

  Failure

  He doesn't seem keen

  •  COGNISANCE is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unnatural Exuberance
  • You've lost 5 x Volume of Collated Research

  ^