Second Chances (Guide)

Early MYN Content and Onwards

Advantage (Second chances)  +
	Sudden Insight
	Letter of introduction
	Hastily Scrawled Warning Note
	Anticandle
	Hard-Earned Lesson
	Surprise Attack Plan
	Confident Smile
	Twincandle

Second Chances can be spent either 5 at a time to increase the respective stat from the "Attend to Matters of <stat name>" action in your Social Engagements, or 1 at a time to essentially "replay" a failed check if you spend them while doing the check. If you use one on a check and fail, you may (but not always) choose "Perhaps not", back out, and try again, useful if you prefer to spend another Second Chance rather than risk it at the listed probability. Keep in mind that backing out will double the required amount of Second Chances until you succeed at the check.

Note you don't get back your Second Chance if you succeed on the first try - it is spent in any case.

Most options to get Second Chances are capped at around 20 to 25. It may be therefore be most worthwhile to spend them, optionally alongside with Moods, for difficult checks (for end-game players, see the respective lists on Watchful, Shadowy, Dangerous and Persuasive).

If you still have no use for them, consider sending some of them to your friends via The gift of admiration. Additionally, there are rare uses for them straight-up, e.g. on The end of battles in the Cave of the Nadir.

Below is a somewhat filtered list of generally repeatable actions where Second Chances may be obtained. Generally speaking, though, Social Actions may be your best options.

All

• "I myself am my only true friend!", an Action from Give a Gift! A commotion in the Square of Lofty Words, a Card in Fallen London for 1 of each. Requires Hedonist 8.
• Everyone deserves a second chance on the Conflict Card of Church and the Great Game, for 1 of each.
• A friend can send you 2 of each from The gift of admiration, an Action from Give a Gift! A commotion in the Square of Lofty Words, a Card in Fallen London.
• Gain Second Chances, an Action from Professional Perks, an Item in your inventory, gives 1 of each.
• A Magnificent Feast!, an item available almost only in the Advent Calendar, gives 1 of each when consumed.
• If you have access to The Temple Club, you have a 50% chance to get 2 Second Chances per Throw in a coin and take a drink.

Wedding advice

While speaking to guests at one's wedding, it is possible to obtain uncapped second chances. Though this uniquely allows grinding, it is also time-consuming, somewhat expensive, and certainly frowned upon by the Masters. You should probably only do this using a non-PoSI as the "dupe", as proposal and divorce costs are higher when toying with the affections of people of consequence.

1 x Hard-Earned Lesson costs 10 x Organising a Wedding and all others cost 5 x Organising a Wedding. Further, you will want to target 200-1000 x OaW while planning to have OaW left for guests.

For an endgame player, the best options in order of unlock are

• Obtain a wedding licence from the Bazaar ( 13 x OaW)
• Locate a reliable vicar (to 33 x OaW), then
• Source food from local street-vendors 5 times (until 83 x OaW, buying rats from the Bazaar), then
• Get proper authorisation for the celebrations as many times as necessary ( 1 x Legal Document can be obtained in 6 actions in Old Newgate, thus approaching 9 x OaW per action)

Ignoring proposal and divorce costs, and assuming you only care for second chances, in the limit of 1000 x OaW during planning, you will spend about 230 to receive 50 x Hard-Earned Lesson in about 150 actions or 100 other second chances in about 200 actions.

Choice-based

Options here depend on your choices made early in the game, which you can only change with Fate, if at all.

• Your Sign of the Chiropteromantic Zodiac: allows you to draw an associated card at Mrs Plenty's Carnival, which on a rare success grants you the Second Chance associated with your sign. See here for details.
• The item you choose to receive on A Gift! from your Mysterious Benefactor will unlock the associated gain on the card A past benefactor later.
• If you have finished your Ambition, all of the Rewards of Ambition give 4 Second Chances, either 4 of the same type or 2 of one type and 2 of another. For specifics, check your specific ending in the article.

Sudden Insight

Access Codes

Access Code: https://www.fallenlondon.com/a/xyzzy

This access code will take you to a colossal cave.

Result:

You are in a colossal cave. There are seven labyrinths. None are alike. It is dark. There is no grue. Descend a well, and you will find secrets. They sell brass lanterns with the blood-apples.

•  You've gained 1 x Sudden Insight

Social Actions

• Allow a friend to torment you while watching over your sleep
• Talk through your troubles with them from a sincere offer
• Spend Corresponding... for clarity
• Read shared case files, an Action from Read incoming mail, a Storylet in Your Social Engagements
• CHRISTMAS: Have a friend send you the Fogscape Christmas Card for 3 Insights.

• Ask the Doughty Pastor to chaperone gives 2, and also 2 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Notes. Requires you to be seen with another player.

Grinding

• While you are Featuring in the Tales of the University 9-24, Talk to the Porters for 1 per action. You will lose access to this later.
• Rare Success on A meeting with the Dean, an Action from Seeking Curios and Secrets in the Forgotten Quarter, a Storylet in The Forgotten Quarter
• Rare Success on Admire the work of a fellow Nocturnal artist or Study the Portrait of the Tentacled Entrepreneur as a work of Bazaarine art, an Action from The Yellow Salon, a Storylet in Helicon House
• Rare Success on Dine with your Brother in The Supper Room of Helicon House
• 1 at each end of the Hunter's Keep carousel
• Exchange a Trade Secret for 1 Second Chance and 150 CP of the respective stat. If you are level-capped, this is a tremendously bad deal.

Opportunity Cards

• 'Golden Topper', an Action from A gathering of gourmets, a Card in The Shuttered Palace
• Several options from The Interpreter of Dreams
• Exchange 1 x Favours: Rubbery Men for a damp gift
• Add your own dead to the pile, an Action from The Departed, a Card in Fallen London (Very Infrequent)
• Rare Success on An Unorthodox Arrangement, an Action from The High Castle: What Occurs in a Rooftop Shack, a Card in Fallen London
• 60% chance on Ask for advice, an Action from A kindness of ravens, a Card in Fallen London; requires a Dazed Raven Advisor
• 60% chance on Diversions for your pet, an Action from Spiders and flies, a Card in Fallen London; requires a Fairly Tame Sorrow-Spider
• Donate to an orphanage, an Action from The Roof-Tops: Urchins, a Card in Fallen London
• Yes, an Action from The Web, a Card in Cave of the Nadir

• With certain endings of Ambition: Nemesis: Go for a walk
• FEAST OF THE ROSE: Pick the smiling option on At the Edge of Sleep, Again

Tomb-Colonies

• A contest of wits, an Action from A friend of sorts, a Card in Disgraced exile in the Tomb-Colonies

Hastily Scrawled Warning Note

Social Actions

• Any positive response when Invited to Loiter earns 1.
• Any reward from loitering earns at least 1, while the Shadowy lessons earn even 2. (Both players get the same reward.)
• Hide vital evidence from the case (sincere) earns 1.
• Read a recipe for scones earns 1.
• CHRISTMAS: Have a friend send you the Suspicious Christmas Card for 3 Notes.
• Ask the Doughty Pastor to chaperone gives 2, and also 2 x Sudden Insights. Requires you to be seen with another player.

Grinding

• Exchange a Trade Secret for 1 Second Chance and 150 CP of the respective stat. If you are level-capped, this is a tremendously bad deal.

Opportunity Cards

• Rare success on Buy advertising space in an existing serial, an Action from A serialised novel, a Card in A Trade in Reputations
• If you are married to a Master Jewel Thief, Burglary with him earns 1 or 2 Notes, depending on if you do the easier or the harder heist.
• FATE: if you have a Dashing Debunker or (presumably) a Regretful Sceptic, you have a 30% chance if you test some handcuffs with either of them.
• FEAST OF THE ROSE: as a Midnighter dreaming of The Gracious Widow, Arrange new Surface smuggling routes with your contacts earns 2 notes - once per year.

Tomb-Colonies

• ...on the operations of the Law on A tiny square of paper...

Hard-Earned Lesson

Social Actions

• Accept bandages in a sincere offer of medical assistance (Also removes 4CP Wounds)
• Drink the poison from an insincere offer of medical assistance (Also inflicts 6CP Wounds)
• Read an improvised fighting manual (will also increase your Dangerous)
• CHRISTMAS: Receive a Paint-Besplattered Mog Christmas Card for 3 Lessons.

• Ask a Confidential Friend to chaperone gives 2, and also 2 x Confident Smiles. Requires you to be seen with another player.
• Various sad ways to end your relationship:
  • Have your partner Break off your relationship
  • Aftermath of your partner breaking off your relationship while you were Organising a Wedding
  • Refuse to sign the divorce papers

Grinding

• Begin an Expedition in the Forgotten Quarter, let your Rivals' Progress reach 10 and Concede.
• Exchange a Trade Secret for 1 Second Chance and 150 CP of the respective stat. If you are level-capped, this is a tremendously bad deal.

Opportunity Cards

• No, an Action from The Web, a Card in Cave of the Nadir
• Try to pet a goat when you see some grazing in The Hurlers
• Ask for help with courage, an action from The Interpreter of Dreams -> A consultation about sea-dreams -> Interview with the Interpreter: Death by Water
• Trade Fourth City Rags on Wolfstack in the fog. The Wolfstack card is drawn exclusively in Wolfstack, and when you have drawn it, you need to cycle your Airs of London to 25-75. Requires you to have Bundle of Fourth City Rags, of which you can only have 1 at any time, and which also come from another opportunity card.
• FEAST OF THE ROSE: Pick the newspaper option or your profession option on At the Edge of Sleep, Again
• FEAST OF THE ROSE: Don't remind yourself, an Action from A face from the past, a Storylet in Fallen London. Will only give Lessons up to 6.

Early game

• Rare success on Deepen your Acquaintance with Prisoner's Honey, requires A Name Signed with a Flourish exactly 1
• Rare success on Play it safe, requires A Name Scrawled in Blood 1-3
• Be Ruthless. Shove her aside. from An elderly lady has hailed the hansom cab you wanted!, requires A Name Whispered in Darkness 1-3
• Both options on The Fallen Angel, requires Dangerous 69-106 to draw the card.

Tomb-Colonies

• ...on underhanded means of battle on A tiny square of paper...
• A contest of skill on A friend of sorts

Confident Smile

Social Actions

• Read licentious gossip, an Action from Read incoming mail, a Storylet in Your Social Engagements
• Spend Corresponding... for the pleasure of letter-writing
• Either option on Benefit from flattery at Dante's Grill (response) earns both players 1 Smile.
• Carousing with your player spouse earns both players 1 Smile.
• When invited to Caligula's, Enjoy a coffee and lighthearted conversation earns both players 2 Smiles, while Indulge in coffee earns 1 each.
• As an Author, get invited to someone's Salon.

• CHRISTMAS: Get invited to a very expensive Private Supper.
• CHRISTMAS: Receive a Beguiling Predatory Vegetable Christmas Card for 3 Smiles.

• Ask a Confidential Friend to chaperone gives 2, and also 2 x Hard-Earned Lessons. Requires you to be seen with another player.
• Refuse to attend court when your spouse asks you for a divorce.
• Testify either in favour or against your friend who is going through divorce court proceedings.

Grinding

• Flirt with a parlour-maid, an Action from Disporting with the servantry, a Storylet in The Empress' Court
• 60% chance if you toss your court work into the fire
• If you are Closest To - Rubbery Men, you have a chance of getting one on a rare success on when you contribute some extra practitioners, namely your Rubbery Campanologist and Rubbery Herald in The South Parlour of Helicon House, or encourage your Boneless Pianist to join in.
• Ambition: Nemesis:
  • rare success on Dance with your Spouse, Returned or Dance with your Lover, Returned in The South Parlour of Helicon House.
  • rare success on Share the paintings with your returned Daughter in The Yellow Salon of Helicon House.
• Ambition: Heart's Desire!: With your Newly-Cast Crown of the City of London, become the face of an Advertising Campaign.

Early game

• rare success on Take on all comers!, an Action from Brawl at the Medusa's Head!, a Storylet in The Medusa's Head; requires A Name Scrawled in Blood 1 - 3
• Bring them together, an Action from The marriage of inconvenience, a Card in Fallen London; requires Persuasive 69 - 106

Opportunity Cards

• 2 from 'Slippery Jack', an Action from A gathering of gourmets, a Card in The Shuttered Palace
• 2 from winning City Vices: a tournament of weasels!
• 2 from Put on a fine show for them, an Action from One's public, a Card in Fallen London; however, you may want to spend a Smile for a higher chance of passing the check in the first place.
• On An Afternoon of Good Deeds?, either Quite a moral afternoon. Let's make sure it's appreciated. or An afternoon of mischief!
• Ask for help with communication, an action from The Interpreter of Dreams -> A consultation about chess-dreams -> Interview with the Interpreter: a Game of Chess
• Pose nude for a painting when you pay the Repentant Forger a Visit
• Sell your Theosophistical conclusions, an Action from Organise your Research, a Storylet in Your Lodgings
• 2 from A stroll in Tyrant's Gardens, an Action from Promenade with the Celebrated Artist's Model, a Card in Fallen London; you need to be married to the Celebrated Artist's Model.
• 'The house at this address burnt down and is home only to weasels...', an Action from A letter from your aunt, a Card in Fallen London
• ...has been cornered by spicily arrogant debutantes, an Action from The Turkish Girl..., a Card in Veilgarden (Party)
• Bring the celebration home, an Action from The Tower of Sparrows: Vice and Virtue in a Gambling Den, a Card in Fallen London
• Don't throw snowballs at the other Stewards, an Action from Snowfall, a Card in Adulterine Castle
• Donate an Echo to a good cause, an Action from Altars and Alms-Houses: the Church, a Card in Fallen London
• Engineer an invitation, an Action from City Vices: a Rather Decadent Evening, a Card in Fallen London
• Feed your Reprehensible Lizard a treat, an Action from Lizardly matters, a Card in Fallen London; requires a Reprehensible Lizard
• Play with your pet Mandrake, an Action from The song of the Mandrake, a Card in Fallen London
• Yah! Yah!, an Action from Once Upon a Time in a Carriage, a Card in Fallen London (also changes a bunch of Quirks)

• Various opportunities on the An Intimate of Devils cards provide Smiles.
• FEAST OF THE ROSE: Any option at At the Edge of Sleep earns 2 notes - once per year.
• FEAST OF THE ROSE: on A masked revel!, either Dance with a mysterious stranger; try your chances with Cast aside your mask!; or Remove a mysterious stranger's mask, which may also instead put you on the path of gaining An Intimate of Devils.
• Ambition: Nemesis: Conduct your lesson with your Daughter/Take tea with your Brother/Lover/Spouse

Tomb-Colonies

• 'I replied fondly.', an Action from A letter from an old acquaintance - Artist's Model, a Card in Disgraced exile in the Tomb-Colonies
• 'I wrote a very personal reply.', an Action from A letter from an old acquaintance - Artist, a Card in Disgraced exile in the Tomb-Colonies
• 'Naturally I seized the opportunity to extend my experience', an Action from Unexpected advances, a Card in Disgraced exile in the Tomb-Colonies