PoSI Item Crafting

Early PoSI Content

This is a guide to the special extended inventory items available to Persons of Some Importance. Most of these must be crafted from components which are expensive and sometimes difficult to obtain. The first section of the guide lists the items along with their components and effects; the second lists the best ways to acquire those components.

Luggage[edit]

'Heirloom' Carpetbag[edit]

(Bizarre +1, Inerrant +1)

Indestructible Trunk[edit]

(Dreaded +1, Neathproofed +1)

Slick Suitcase[edit]

(Respectable +1, Insubstantial +1)

Other Luggage[edit]

Other luggage exists that can't be crafted on the Bazaar Side Streets. Please see Luggage for a list of Seasonal, Fate-locked and other luggage.

Affiliation[edit]

Business. Pleasure.

Note: You must choose between owning a Salon or an Orphanage; you cannot have both! However, you may have all the other affiliations at the same time, although only one can be equipped.

A Salon[edit]

(Persuasive +2, Bizarre +1, Respectable +2)

An Orphanage[edit]

(Watchful +1, Respectable +4)

Gang of Hoodlums[edit]

(Shadowy +1, Dreaded +2)
Preparation:

10000 x Piece of Rostygold

Final Step:

5 x Favours: Criminals
8 x Use of Villains

Membership of God's Editors[edit]

(Persuasive +1, Respectable +4)
Preparation:

OR you could substitute the above requirements with one of the following (you do not lose the copy):

Final Step:

Renown: The Church 10
12 x Volume of Collated Research

Newspaper[edit]

(Persuasive +1, Watchful +1)
Preparation:

200 x Silk Scrap
- (This is the civilian's toll fee you pay each time you move to Doubt Street. Once you become a baron of the press, you can enter the area free of charge.)
1 x Favour in High Places
1 x Comprehensive Bribe
1 x Personal Recommendation

Final Steps (your choice of candidates for each department):

Arts - Either one of:
- Intimate with a Revolutionary Firebrand 1
- 1 x Cellar of Wine
Letters - Either one of:
- 1 x Corresponding Ocelot FATE
- 1 x Ornate Typewriter
Photography - Either one of:
- 1 x Educating Lyme
- 1 x Strong-Backed Labour
Palace Insider - Either one of:
- Acquaintance: the Wry Functionary 3
- 1 x Comprehensive Bribe
Society Gossip - Either one of:
- an Intimate of Devils 5
- 1 x Portfolio of Souls

*(You do not lose these "ingredients" if you opt to use them!)
Publication Storyline:

1 x Whirring Contraption

Note: Every time you wish to publish, a contraption is needed to start the printing presses. Though if you're content with owning a newspaper that never publishes anything, you won't need to sacrifice your contraptions!

Other Affiliations[edit]

Many other affiliations exist that can't be crafted on the Bazaar Side Streets. Please see Affiliations for a list of Seasonal, Fate-locked and other affiliations.

Transport[edit]

Lie back and enjoy the ride. ...Unless you're atop a velocipede. Then pedal like blazes!

Velocipede[edit]

1 x Bazaar Permit
1 x Strong-Backed Labour

Clay Sedan Chair[edit]

(Bizarre +2)

Respectable Landau[edit]

(Respectable +2)

OR you could substitute the above requirements with the following items:

Other Vehicles[edit]

Many other transports exist that can't be crafted on the Bazaar Side Streets. Please see Transports for a list of Seasonal, Fate-locked and other transports.

Home Comfort[edit]

Bring bling to your home.

Formidable Basalt Gymnasium[edit]

(Dangerous +3)

12 x Strong-Backed Labour

Voluminous Library[edit]

(Watchful +3)
You can either fight for your distant relative's case of books in court:
Your legal case is a luck challenge. Every time you battle in court and lose, you lose 50 x Cryptic Clues.

200 x Cryptic Clue
5 x Legal Document

OR you could assemble an esoteric collection of your research from Embarking on a Voyage of Scientific Discovery 4:

250 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes
250 x Page of Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes
250 x Page of Theosophistical Notes

Other Home Comforts[edit]

Many other home comforts exist that can't be crafted on the Bazaar Side Streets. Please see Home Comforts for a list of Seasonal, Fate-locked and other home comforts.

Ship[edit]

Your zee-faring vessel leads you to fascinating new lands and their unique stories. By the decree of the Masters, you may only own one ship, but you're able to sell one and buy another at any time.

The first steps are the same for each ship:

1 x Legal Document
1 x Bazaar Permit
1 x Personal Recommendation
1 x Cellar of Wine
1 x Volume of Collated Research
1 x Whirring Contraption
Either one of:
- 2 x Strong-Backed Labour
- 1 x Strong-Backed Labour, and Renown: The Docks 10

These are only required for your very first ship. Parting with a ship to buy a different one only incurrs the direct cost of the ship of your choice. The costs for each ship are listed beneath their names as follows:

Rusty Tramp Steamer[edit]

100 x Relic of the Third City

Swift Zee-Clipper[edit]

Preparation:

OR you could substitute the above requirements with the following item:

1 x Use of Villains

Final Step (This is a Dangerous challenge. If you lose, you spend 1 x Use of Villains.):

1 x Legal Document
12 x Use of Villains

Zubmarine[edit]

(Bizarre +1)
Preparation:

a Copy of your Tale of the Future or a Scholar of the Correspondence 3

Final Step:

Majestic Pleasure Yacht[edit]

(Respectable +2)
Preparation:

10 x Touching Love Story or Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 3

Final Step:

Nodule of Deep Amber x 5000 (unlocks the option)

This is a triple challenge. You must succeed at all the challenges to claim the yacht: Persuasive, Watchful, and luck. If you lose, you forfeit the following items:

If you win, the yacht is yours but you must surrender the following items:

Spouse[edit]

Marriage bestows the Committed: quality. You may only bond yourself to one spouse a time. You can divorce them as you please and wed another, but the divorce process is quite costly.

Celebrated Artist's Model[edit]

(Watchful +1)
Preparation:
Step 1. A variety of ways to woo her. (You need 14 CP i.e. 5 successes as all give 3 CP. Option 2 is an automatic success, all others have main stat challenges associated.):

Step 2. (Use one choice to progress!):

3 x Favours: Bohemians
3 x Favour in High Places

OR

Ruthless 4
2 x Use of Villains

OR

Step 3.

Final Step:

1 x Comprehensive Bribe
1 x Cellar of Wine

Master Jewel Thief[edit]

(Persuasive +1)
Preparation: Step 1. A variety of ways to woo him. (You need 14 CP i.e. 5 successes as all give 3 CP. Option 4 is an automatic success, all others have main stat challenges associated.):

1 x Favour in High Places
1 x Comprehensive Bribe
1 x Night on the Town
1 x Bejewelled Lens, 10 x Flawed Diamond, 1 x Venom-Ruby

Step 2. (Use one choice to progress!):

3 x Favours: Constables
1 x Personal Recommendation

OR

1 x Legal Document

Step 3.

250 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
170 x Foxfire Candle Stub

Final Step:

1 x Comprehensive Bribe
1 x Cellar of Wine

A Bewildering Procession of Companions, Lovers, Suitors, and Paramours[edit]

(Shadowy +1, Persuasive +1)

You can find them in the storylet Formalise your Relationship, which appears in Your Social Engagements.
Requirements to marry them:

1 x Cellar of Wine
Hedonist 5
Persuasive 125

Philosophically Perfect Partnership[edit]

(Watchful +2)
You can only begin the courtship after being Restored to the Court of Her Enduring Majesty.

Step 1: Introduce yourself with the card A Meeting at the Ball

Approach the Roguish Semiotician, Persuasive challenge 120
Engage the Infamous Mathematician in conversation, Watchful challenge 120

Step 2: Go to the University

A Philosophical Courtship (all options give 2 CP)
- Bring them a mystery: costs 1x Antique Mystery
- Sample the pleasures of Veilgarden: costs 1x Night on the Town
- Intrigue against academic rivals: costs 1x Blackmail Material

Step 3: Pull a great many strings

requires Connected: Benthic 10
costs 1x Favour in High Places

Final Step: Suggest a permanent arrangement

Other Spouses[edit]

Many other spouses exist that can't be crafted on the Bazaar Side Streets. Please see Spouses for a list of Seasonal, Fate-locked and other spouses.

Club[edit]

You may only choose one club. After becoming a member, you shall be able to leave your current club and join the other club if you wish.

The Parthenaeum[edit]

(Persuasive +1, Respectable +4)

The Young Stags' Club[edit]

(Shadowy +1, Dreaded +2, Bizarre +2)

The Clay Tailor Club[edit]

(Persuasive +1, Bizarre +4)
Base requirements for any option:

Then you can either gather these resources:

OR you could substitute the above requirements if you have any of the following items:

Sophia's[edit]

(Dangerous +1, Dreaded +4)

OR

Lodgings[edit]

The 4-card Premises at the Bazaar lodgings has two options for purchase: spending tons of grindable items at Penstock's Land Agency or using certain cards which also give some items in addition to the key.

OR (Your just due, requires being a PoSI)

50 x Bazaar Permit
GIVES 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum and 5 x Muscaria Brandy)

Components[edit]

Searching out a Missing Woman (Guide) (SoaMW), Doing Business in Wilmot's End (Guide) (DBiWE) and Fighting a War of Assassins (Guide) (FaWoA) are grindable storylines that take 11 actions to produce 1 CP of Dramatic Tension, assuming no failures. For DBiWE and SoaMW, you can instead take 1 Legal Document or 2 Whirring Contraptions, respectively. Please see the guides for an in depth explanation.

For DBiWe and SoaMW, if you get to the end of the cycle and have Dramatic Tension 1 (if you forget, you can also go do one of the other grinds to get the Dramatic Tension before cashing out), you can cash in to get various items.

For FaWoA, once you get to Dramatic Tension 2 (3 CP), you may choose to cash in and get items from The Treasures of War.

There is no point in raising Dramatic Tension beyond whatever you need, as cashing out with any option that takes Dramatic Tension resets all of it. Also, it doesn't matter where the tension is from. This means you can use FaWoA for grinding Dramatic Tension, and cash it in with a different storyline. Handy if you have some skills you're better in than others, since the storylines use different skills.

The cost of acquiring these components varies. Items are reasonable ($) to obtain if they can be upgraded along their category line, if their components' value is close to their sell price or if the can be reliably grinded at about 1 Echo/action. Expensive ($$$) Items do not have a reliable source and are, well, expensive to craft. Medium ($$) means that while grinding is still cheaper than crafting, it must be done rather inefficiently at less than 0.5 Echo/action. The sell prices of these items are pretty arbitrary but this classification gives a hint at what to pick or hold onto if there are choices available (cf. weekly rewards and the rainbow options)

Components[edit]

Note: A Rainbow of Offerings provide several one-time sources for components. See that page for more info.

Cost	Component	Sell Price	Reliable Sources (items/actions)	Side-streets crafting (components' value)
	Bazaar Permit	12.50	FaWoA (3/34) Thefts (1/10) Heists (2/~24) The Licentiate's Bounty (4) Item conversion	100 x Romantic Notion 10 x Vision of the Surface = 15
	Bejewelled Lens	12.50	-	1 x Magnificent Diamond 1000 x Moon-Pearl 10 x Ostentatious Diamond 60 x Correspondence Plaque = 57.5
	Book of Hidden Bodies	6.00	-	6 x An Identity Uncovered! 300 x Inkling of Identity 30 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip = 60
	Cellar of Wine	12.50	Sealgrind (3/39) The Author's reward (1) The Mystic's reward (1) Item Conversion	1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844 250 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882 50 x Bottle of Morelways 1872 5 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe = 15
	Volume of Collated Research	2.50	FaWoA (16/34) DBiWE (10/22) Conversion The Monster-Hunter's Labours (3)	12 x Appalling Secret 2 x Tale of Terror!! = 2.8
	Collection of Curiosities	6.00	FaWoA (1/34) The end of battles	See the list on the action page = 47.8
( ^[1])	Comprehensive Bribe	12.50	Viric Jungle (1/~10) Fidgeting Writer (1/~56)	6 x Touching Love Story 300 x Romantic Notion 30 x Vision of the Surface = 60
	Favour in High Places	12.50	Arbor (1/~4) Sealgrind (3/39) Talk of the Town (4/~40)^[2] Item conversion The Campaigner's reward (1) The Midnighter's Currency (4)	200 x Cryptic Clue 25 x Inkling of Identity 1 x Secluded Address 10 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip 1 x An Identity Uncovered! = 14.5
	Legal Document	12.50	DBiWE (1/11) Underclay via Cave-Aged Code of Honour Old Newgate via Cave-Aged Code of Honour	6 x Aeolian Scream 300 x Maniac's Prayer 30 x Correspondence Plaque = 60
	Night on the Town	2.50	The Author's reward (1) The Journalist's reward (1)	40 x Intriguing Snippet 15 x Compromising Document 20 CP Making Waves (Level 6) = 15.5
	Personal Recommendation	6.00	Talk of the Town (1/~40)^[2]	6 x Stolen Kiss 150 x Intriguing Snippet 30 x Compromising Document = 60
	Portfolio of Souls	12.50	Sanctuary of the Crimson Petals	1000 x Soul 75 x Infernal Contract 80 x Brilliant Soul = 75
	Strong-Backed Labour	2.50	SoaMW (4/22) The Rat-Catcher's reward (1) Underclay (3)	350 Penny = 3.5 Alternatively craftable in the Clay Quarters for: 1 x An Identity Uncovered! 4 x Compromising Document 50 x Piece of Rostygold 50 x Moon-Pearl = 5.5 for 2 (2.75 each)
	Use of Villains	6.00	FaWoA (2/34) The Enforcer's reward (1)	80 x Appalling Secret 20 x Journal of Infamy = 22
	Whirring Contraption	6.00	SoaMW (2/11)	120 x Phosphorescent Scarab 24 x Memory of Light = 24