Read shared case files

ID: 246075

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From: Read incoming mail

A quiet evening in, with a lengthy letter.

Game Instructions: This will spend your Shared Case File and increase your Watchful.

Unlocked with 1 x Shared Case File (Write some case notes into a letter)

Success

[Title of the case]

You sit and read, gripped by the pages.

[Quote from the case]

Your tea has gone cold; you will not notice until the morning, when it is also bitter.

Description summary:
You read a summary of a case, varying by The Airs of London.

Airs	Case Name	Case Summary
0-20	The Case of the Viennese Carpenter	'I eventually located him at the home of one Mr _______, who presently resides in Spite but at the time had recently purchased an elegant townhouse in Veilgarden. He had been contracted to make some alterations to the cabinetry, […] particular nature.'
21-40	The Locked Rookery Murders	'I had become so fixated on the mirrors that I neglected to truly examine the room itself. So, though it pained me to return to the gloomy rookery, I once again paced the floor of the space. I paid close attention to the sounds of my footsteps […].'
41-60	A Study in Violant	'[…] the "treatises on the nature of the Correspondence" being sold by Mme ______ were forgeries, as evidenced by the density of nonsense sigils she had contrived and included within them, […] they were not on fire.'
61-80	The Affair of the Amnesiac Postman	'The postman, […] a small notebook into which he recorded small details of […]. This immediately piqued my interest; somehow, the poor man's lost memory had created a ready-made puzzle.'
81-100	The Matter of the Mirror-Mazed Zailor	'[…]two particular zuperstitions. First: It is ill luck to bring a mirror aboard a ship larger than her portholes. Second: A zailor[…] is liable to develop dreams of a particularly monstrous character, and thus should stay away from prisoner's honey.'

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  You've gained 1 x Sudden Insight (up to 20)
•  You've lost 1 x Shared Case File
•  Watchful is increasing… (+see below CP, up to level 200 + Watchful Gains)
• [The Airs of London change…] (random)
•  You've gained 1 x Mired in Mail

Starting Mired in Mail	0–3	4	5	6	7	8	≥9
Watchful CP	70	69	63	42	21	15	14
Ending Mired in Mail	1–4	5	6	7	8	9	≥10