Professional Activities (Guide)

Mid PoSI Content and Onwards

Professional Activities Summary
Variable-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
0 A				1+ A				0 A
Progress Details			Raise Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies to desired cash out. Helping out different factions gives various payouts.
Items Inputs/Outputs Outputs Rostygold Bessemer Steel Ingot Femur of a Jurassic Beast Fin Bones, Collected Horned Skull Plated Skull Albatross Wing Fossilised Forelimb Flourishing Ribcage Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits Basket of Rubbery Pies Solacefruit Portfolio of Souls Soul Puzzling Map Zee-Ztory Vital Intelligence Moves in the Great Game Cellar of Wine Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe Favour in High Places Scrap of Incendiary Gossip Magnificent Diamond Ostentatious Diamond Sapphire Venom-Ruby Bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing Bottle of Greyfields 1882 Journal of Infamy An Identity Uncovered! Justificande Coin Puzzle-Damask Scrap Thirsty Bombazine Scrap Whisper-Satin Scrap Surface-Silk Scrap Volume of Collated Research Uncanny Incunabulum Cryptic Clue Ratty Reliquary Foxfire Candle Stub Legal Document Dubious Testimony Strong-Backed Labour Memory of Distant Shores
Raw EPA			4.30			Raw SPA			8.72

Professional Activities allow players with Top-Tier Professions more gameplay opportunities to explore their chosen identity by taking additional work-for-hire. The content is unique to each profession, but with shared mechanics and rewards. Activities are found in Your Activities (Lodgings sub-area).

Overview

Activities are found in Storylets in Your Activities. The main structure is playing Airs-dependent actions to build up a Reward quality, which may be spent in Payment for Services Rendered on a variety of items. All Professions share the same reward Storylet.

Working the Activities will also allow you to progress a short storyline, and eventually choose a Specialisation for your Profession. Thus far, the only effect of Specialisation is unlocking additional Activity actions. Specialisation can be reset by changing Professions.

Tracking Qualities

Airs of Industry

Determines what jobs are available. Is randomized after doing a job.

Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies

The reward quality gained by doing jobs, which is cashed out for a variety of resources under the Payment for Services Rendered storylet. The rewards section details what resources you can get.

Services Rendered:

Benthic, Bohemians, Clay, Society, Tomb-Colonists, The Church, The Great Game, The Honey-Addled Detective, Hell, Zailors, The Gracious Widow and Constables

Discrete Qualities gained by doing jobs for the corresponding faction. Each faction has a payout under Payment for Services Rendered that require spending 5 levels of their Services Rendered (note that these rewards still require the appropriate amount of Invoices). Different (partially overlapping) sets of client factions are available to different professions.

A Professional Specialisation:

Two mutually exclusive specialisations are available to each profession. Unlocks a job that grants a Services Rendered that cannot otherwise be obtained by that profession, with the Services Rendered differing by specialisation, along with another job with very difficult challenges but high payout. Specialize by progressing Extensive Professional Experience

Extensive Professional Experience

Story tracker for gaining a Specialisation. Each Profession has a unique 4-part story, with the Specialisation gained depending on the chosen ending.

Attracting the Attention of a Mysterious Client

Required to progress Extensive Professional Experience. Has a chance to be gained with each job done, with the chance of gaining it increasing with Mysterious Client Attention Odds

Mysterious Client Attention Odds

A hidden quality gained by doing jobs. Increases the chance of Attracting the Attention of a Mysterious Client. (The RNG has been fitted with a muzzle to prevent it from getting too far out of hand.)

Activities

The Activities consist of a bunch of jobs-for-hire, with availability depending on the Airs of Industry. Each is a single action. Some of the more difficult actions are gated by player progress, and a few are gated by A Professional Specialisation:.

Each Tier 3 Profession is associated with two Primary Stats and one Advanced Skill, as demonstrated on their Professional Item. Each Professional Activity task has a Broad Challenge against one of the two Primary Stats for that Profession, and a Narrow Challenge against the Advanced Skill. More difficult activities have higher rewards.

Easy Activities

The most accessible tasks have the following in common:

• Challenge difficulties of 90 Broad & 0 Narrow (100% success requires stat levels of 150 / 5)
• No other requirements to play
• Grants 320 x Invoice Value on success, 200 on failure
• At least one such option is available at every Airs of Industry value

Medium Activities

The next step in in activities have the following in common:

• Challenge difficulties of either 180 Broad & 4 Narrow OR 140 Broad & 10 Narrow (100% success requires 300 / 9 or 235 / 15).
• Grants 410 x Invoice Value on success, 200 on failure.
• Gated on either game progress, or A Professional Specialisation:.
• While game progress requirements range from early-midgame ( 5 Notability) to the very-late endgame ( Marigold Station), the options themselves are not more difficult or rewarding. Rather, advanced game progress merely seems to expand the range of Airs values where these options are available.
• One or more is available with 80% of Airs values without A Professional Specialisation:, or 90% with A Professional Specialisation:

Hard Activities

These most challenging and rewarding activities have the following in common:

• Challenge difficulties of 200 Broad & 13 Narrow (100% success requires 330 / 17).
• Grants 450 x Invoice Value on success, 200 on failure.
• Requires A Professional Specialisation.
• A character may only have one such option available, which covers half the range of Airs values.

Which Challenge to Choose?

The following breakpoints are where you should change which difficulty you pursue. Medium challenge (Stats) and Medium challenge (Skills) are how the 2 medium challenges will be addressed.

Advanced Skill	Medium (Stats)	Hard (Vs Medium Stat)	Medium (Skill)	Hard (Vs Medium Skill)
4	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
5	286	N/A	N/A	N/A
6	245	N/A	N/A	N/A
7	215	N/A	N/A	N/A
8	191	N/A	N/A	N/A
9	172	N/A	N/A	N/A
10	172	N/A	N/A	N/A
11	172	N/A	223	N/A
12	172	N/A	191	N/A
13	172	N/A	167	N/A
14	172	N/A	100	N/A
15	172	N/A	100	N/A
16	172	312	100	312
17	N/A	160	100	280

Rewards

Action	Value	Extra Requirements	Available to which professions?	Reward
In Rostygold	Up to 500	N/A	All	Up to 500 Rostygold
In steel	1250	N/A	All	25 x Bessemer Steel Ingot
In bones	3100	N/A	All	2 x Femur of a Jurassic Beast 2 x Fin Bones, Collected One of the following: 2 x Horned Skull 1 x Plated Skull 2 x Albatross Wing 1 x Fossilised Forelimb 2 x Flourishing Ribcage
In food	2750	N/A	All	5 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits 5 x Basket of Rubbery Pies 5 x Solacefruit
In souls	1600	5 Hell	Silverer Monster-Hunter Correspondent Crooked-Cross Midnighter Licentiate - Fractionist	1 x Portfolio of Souls 175 x Soul
In maps	1600	5 Zailors	Crooked-Cross Midnighter Correspondent - Crimson Engineer Licentiate - Siopian	1 x Puzzling Map 7 x Zee-Ztory
In intelligence	1600	5 The Great Game	Licentiate Silverer - Oneirotect Monster-Hunter - Hierarch of the Hunt Midnighter - Iniquitor	1 x Vital Intelligence 7 x Moves in the Great Game
In wine	1600	5 Bohemians	Silverer Correspondent Midnighter - Letheologist	1 x Cellar of Wine 7 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe
In favours and rumour	1600	5 Society	Monster-Hunter Correspondent	1 x Favour in High Places 7 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
In jewels	1600	5 The Gracious Widow	Midnighter Licentiate	1 x Magnificent Diamond 3 x Ostentatious Diamond 5 x Sapphire 10 x Venom-Ruby 1 x Bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing 10 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882
In mysteries	1600	5 The Honey-Addled Detective	Monster-Hunter Silverer - Ontological Cartographer	7 x Journal of Infamy 4 x An Identity Uncovered! 1 x Justificande Coin
In silks	1600	5 Tomb-Colonists	Silverer Crooked-Cross - Beatificator	1 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap 1 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap 1 x Whisper-Satin Scrap 5 x Surface-Silk Scrap
In dusty tomes	1600	5 Benthic	Monster-Hunter - Teratomancer Correspondent - Epistolant	1 x Volume of Collated Research 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum 50 x Cryptic Clue
In suspect relics	1600	5 The Church	Crooked-Cross	1 x Ratty Reliquary 350 x Foxfire Candle Stub
In statements and testimonies	1600	5 Constables	Licentiate	1 x Legal Document 6 x Dubious Testimony
In hard labour	1600	5 Clay	Crooked-Cross - Schismatic	5 x Strong-Backed Labour 7 x Memory of Distant Shores

Professions

Profession	Challenges	Factions
Silverer	Dangerous Persuasive Glasswork	Bohemians Tomb-Colonists The Great Game The Honey-Addled Detective Hell
Monster-Hunter	Dangerous Watchful Monstrous Anatomy	Society The Great Game Benthic The Honey-Addled Detective Hell
Correspondent	Watchful Persuasive Artisan of the Red Science	Bohemians Society Hell Benthic Zailors
Crooked-Cross	Persuasive Shadowy Mithridacy	The Church Hell Tomb-Colonists Clay Zailors
Midnighter	Shadowy Watchful A Player of Chess	Zailors Hell The Great Game Bohemians The Gracious Widow
Licentiate	Dangerous Shadowy Kataleptic Toxicology	Constables The Gracious Widow Hell Zailors The Great Game

Silverer

• Storylet: The Business of a Silverer
• Challenges: Glasswork (Narrow difficulty), Persuasive and Dangerous (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Oneirotect and Ontological Cartographer
• Services Rendered: Bohemians, Tomb-Colonists, The Great Game ( Oneirotect), The Honey-Addled Detective ( Ontological Cartographer), Hell ( Marigold Flower)

Airs	Requirements	Action	Challenges	Value	Services Rendered
1-30	Notability 5	Officiate a Wedding	180 4	410
1-40		Guide a gaggle of Bohemians through Parabola	90 0	320	Bohemians
1-50	Cartographer	Uncover a dark secret	200 13	450
10-40	Cartographer	Chart the edge of the Is-Not	140 10	410	Detective
31-70		Extricate a half-lost memory	90 0	320	Tomb-Colonists
41-60	Discovered: tSoS	Lead an expedition to the Sea of Spines	180 4	410
51-70	Marigold Flower	Recover an infernal artifact	140 10	410	Hell
51-100	Oneirotect	Engineer a fortification	200 13	450
61-100		Lance a persistent anxiety	90 0	320
71-100	Oneirotect	Repair a Memory Palace	180 4	410	The Great Game
81-100	Notability 5	Destroy an errant nightmare	140 10	410

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of Airs of Industry.

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options	Bohemians				Ealing Gardens		n/a
	Notability			Tomb-Colonists					Notability
						Marigold Station Hell
Oneirotect						n/a
								The Great Game
Ontological Cartographer	n/a
		The Honey-Addled Detective

Services Rendered: The Great Game seems more useful than Services Rendered: The Honey-Addled Detective for a late-game player capable of passing the relevant stat checks. The former pays in items that can all be sold for Hinterland Scrip in the Upper River Exchange. The only uniquely desirable item for the latter is a single Justificande Coin.

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Monster-Hunter

• Storylet: The Business of a Monster-Hunter
• Challenges: Monstrous Anatomy (Narrow difficulty), Watchful and Dangerous (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Hierarch of the Hunt and Teratomancer
• Services Rendered: Society, The Honey-Addled Detective, The Great Game ( Hierarch of the Hunt), Benthic ( Teratomancer), Hell ( Balmoral's Castellan)

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of Airs of Industry.

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options	Society				Balmoral Hell		n/a
	Notability			n/a					Notability The Honey-Addled Detective
						Moulin
Hierarch of the Hunt	n/a
								The Great Game
Teratomancer						n/a
		Benthic

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Correspondent

• Storylet: The Business of a Correspondent
• Challenges: Artisan of the Red Science (Narrow difficulty), Watchful and Persuasive (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Epistolant and Crimson Engineer
• Services Rendered: Hell, Society, Bohemians, Benthic ( Epistolant), Zailors ( Crimson Engineer)

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of Airs of Industry.

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options	Society				Jericho Locks		Bohemians
	Notability Hell			n/a					Notability
						Station VIII
Epistolant						n/a
								Benthic
Crimson Engineer	n/a
		Zailors

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Crooked-Cross

• Storylet: The Business of a Crooked-Cross
• Challenges: Mithridacy (Narrow difficulty), Persuasive and Shadowy (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Beatificator and Schismatic
• Services Rendered: Hell, Zailors, The Church, Tomb-Colonists ( Beatificator), Clay ( Schismatic)

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of Airs of Industry.

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options	The Church				Burrow-Infra-Mump		Hell
	Notability			n/a					Notability Zailors
						Marigold Station
Beatificator						n/a
								Tomb-Colonists
Schismatic	n/a
		Clay

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Midnighter

• Storylet: The Business of a Midnighter
• Challenges: A Player of Chess (Narrow difficulty), Watchful and Shadowy (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Iniquitor and Letheologist
• Services Rendered: Zailors, The Gracious Widow, Hell, The Great Game ( Iniquitor), Bohemians ( Letheologist)

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of Airs of Industry.

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options	Hell				n/a		n/a
	Notability			Zailors					Notability The Gracious Widow
						Khaganian Safe-Conduct
Iniquitor	n/a
								The Great Game
Letheologist						n/a
		Bohemians

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Licentiate

• Storylet: The Business of a Licentiate
• Challenges: Kataleptic Toxicology (Narrow difficulty), Dangerous and Shadowy (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Fractionist and Siopian
• Services Rendered: Constables, The Gracious Widow, The Great Game, Hell ( Fractionist), Zailors ( Siopian)

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of Airs of Industry.

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options	Constables				Jericho Locks		n/a
	Notability			The Gracious Widow					Notability
						Station VIII The Great Game
Fractionist						n/a
								Hell
Siopian	n/a
		Zailors