Favours: Rubbery Men

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Favours: Rubbery Men is a Favours quality.

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It is impossible to raise this quality beyond the cap of 7 under any circumstance. Excess from actions raising the quality is wasted after hitting the cap!

Notable sources

Source	Action	Location/Card	Cost/Requirements	Number of Favours	Notes
Storylets	An action at the end of Flute Street	Flute Street	The cycle takes 24 actions.	1	See Flute Street (Guide)
	Meet some Rubbery Men	Mrs Plenty's Carnival	Less than 5 x Renown	1
	Give him your enormous Glim-Shard	Wolfstack Docks	1 x Shard of Glim the Size of a Small Child	1	Obtaining the Shard takes 21 actions on Bullbone Island
Cards	Shake 'hands'?	Slime and Amber: the Rubbery Men	+3 CP Scandal	1
	Give it some Amber	Slime and Amber: the Rubbery Men	1 x Nodule of Warm Amber	1
	Light the Roof Below	Meetings of the Initiates of the Society of the Inverted Stalactite	5 x Phosphorescent Scarab	1	Must have Stalactite Society Equipped
	...is heading hopefully in your direction	The Tentacled Entrepreneur...		1-2	See Attending a Party (Guide) drawn in Veilgarden (Party). Time Remaining... 5.
	...is confused by the cutlery	The Tentacled Entrepreneur...		1	See Attending a Party (Guide) drawn in Veilgarden (Party). Time Remaining... 2.
	Talk to the Rubbery Men	A Commission from the Cheesemonger		0-1	Requires An Agent of the Cheesemonger 1-3, Early Game Only
	Outflank the Ministry's servant	Ministry Enforcement	+1 CP Suspicion	1	Card drawn in Ealing Gardens
	Pray	The Walls of Oud Sint-Elisabeth	+ 1 CP Scandal	1	Card drawn in Risen Burgundy

Notable uses

Source	Action	Location	Cost	Reward	Value/Notes
Storylets	A curious knot	The Forgotten Quarter	1 x Favours	420 x Nodule of Deep Amber	4.2
Storylets	An Invertebrate Factor	Jericho Locks	4 x Favours	2 x Flourishing Ribcage 2 x Basket of Rubbery Pies	5 See Assembling a Skeleton (Guide)
Cards	Accept a damp gift	Slime and Amber: the Rubbery Men	1 x Favours	3 x Nodule of Warm Amber 1 x Sudden Insight	On Rare Success Insight capped at 21
	Accept a damp gift	Slime and Amber: the Rubbery Men	all Favours	500-2900 x Nodule of Deep Amber	On normal Success Nodules depends on Favours spent
	Convince the Rubbery Men to move on	Amber in the well	2 x Favours	210 x Proscribed Material 1 CP Someone Is Coming	8.4
	Finger the guilty party	They all look the same to me		550 x Piece of Rostygold 1 x Sworn Statement 1 CP Someone Is Coming	8
	Call in favours from Rubbery Men	Under the Statue		1 x Nodule of Trembling Amber 25 x Nodule of Warm Amber	12.5
	Direct your creditors to the Tentacled Entrepreneur	A Word From Your Creditors	6 x Favours	-3 CP In Corporate Debt	Requires Board Member: Tentacled Entrepreneur
	Save the Tomb-Colonist!	A misfortune at the Carnival	all Favours	500-1000 Silk Scrap 10 x Carnival Ticket 1 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap 1 CP Someone Is Coming	12.5 plus Scraps Scraps depends on Favours spent