Someone Is Coming (Guide)

Early MYN Content and Onwards

Someone Is Coming Summary
Fixed-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
0 A				10 A				1 A
Progress Details			Raise Someone Is Coming to 4.
Items Inputs/Outputs Boosting Your very own Infernal Contract Involved in the Soul Trade Investigating the Rubbery Murders In Contact with a Long-Lost Daughter A Person of Some Importance - Route: The Bone Market Involved in a Railway Venture 50 Outputs Primordial Shriek Soul Infernal Contract Mourning Candle Maniac's Prayer Compromising Document Vision of the Surface Bone Fragments Fistful of Surface Currency First City Coin Justificande Coin
Raw EPA						-

General

Someone Is Coming is a mechanic that is used throughout the game. 1 CP Progress is gained on many different cards, and once you've reached Level 4 (10 CP), someone will finally arrive. Alternatively, it may be cashed in on the Rob a drunk storylet in Spite. This means that a normal reward takes 11 actions, and robbing a drunk takes 7 actions.

Payouts

There are various payouts that can be acquired, and while you start with only one, as you progress in the game, you'll be able to collect different payouts later. The later payouts are typically more valuable than earlier ones.

Everything done through the card will reset Somone is Coming, so if you have excess for whatever reason, it would be best to cash out through robbing A furious and incoherent drunken rat before you play the card.

A table of payouts is shown below:

Requirement	Option	Items	Profit/EPA
	A Scream for your Mantel	x 275	5.5 0.50 EPA
Your very own Infernal Contract	You just put it down for a moment	x 300  x 25	11 1.00 EPA
Involved in the Soul Trade FATE	A dealer in souls	x 4	10 0.91 EPA
Investigating the Rubbery Murders, FATE	Not making much sense now	x 110	11 1 EPA
In Contact with a Long-Lost Daughter, FATE	A present for your daughter	x 22	11 1 EPA
A Person of Some Importance -	For someone who has it all, or at least most of it	x 24	12 1.09 EPA
Route: The Bone Market	Raw material	x 2200	22 2.00 EPA
Involved in a Railway Venture 50	A bag of jangling coins	x 400  x 10  x 3	14.5 1.32 EPA
	A furious and incoherent drunken rat	x Shadowy/2	3.79 - 5.27 0.54 - 0.75 EPA

Breakdown of Cards

Profit in addition to the CP of SiC:

Option	Requirement	Profit in addition to SiC ( )
Conflict Cards	5 favours with 2 relevant factions	8 for 2 favours.
Attend the ceremony	1 x Favours: Hell 1 x Soul	4.58
City Vices: a Rather Decadent Evening	1 x Favours: Bohemians	4 + MW and +2 CP Scandal
The oracle of the weasel-fights	Dazed Raven Advisor	1
They don't even cheat well	exactly 5 Featuring in the Tales of the University	0.85
The Soft-Hearted Widow	20 x Moon-Pearl	0.8
City Vices: a tournament of weasels!	Lucky Weasel	0.6
	Araby Fighting-Weasel	2 + -1 CP Nightmares + 2x Confident Smile on success, -1x Araby Fighting-Weasel on failure (SIC either way)
	Ermine Assassin	3.5
An Evening with your Spouses	Philosophically Perfect Partnership	1 or -3 CP Nightmares
Join him in training	Flexible Intelligencer	2.5 (5 )
Jack strikes again	An Annoyance to Jack-of-Smiles	0.3
Exterminate the rats but charge a fee	Vermin-free, 3-5 MYN	0.3
You're a complicated person...	1-3 MYN	0.2
Find a patsy	5 Suspicion	-2 CP Suspicion
The answer to Nightmares?	Nightmares	Varies, SIC on success only
An opportunity!	Free of Surface Ties -	0.15
A past benefactor	7 The Protégé of a Mysterious Benefactor	Second chance
City Vices: a Plea from an Old Friend	An Admirer of Beauty -	Quirk(s) +1 CP
City Vices: an Entanglement with an Old Friend	An Admirer of Art -	Varies, includes Quirk changes
Bringing the revolution	Plotting against the Masters	1 main stat +5 CP

Cards while Zailing

Note: You'll meet someone first when you return to London. Excess CP over level 4 should preferably be spent on robbing the drunk rat.

• A Huge Terrible Beast of the Unterzee!
• Creaking from Above

Analysis

Each completed, London bound, cycle permits payout from either:

• Rat, for a maximum payout of 5.27 or 0.75 EPSiC
• Relicker, for a maximum payout of 22 or 2 EPSiC
  • Note, this will reset your Someone Is Coming quality

Thus, an optimal strategy would be:

• Favours: Hell - sourced from Attend a lecture at the Brass Embassy
• Attend the ceremony - consuming the Favour and a Soul (Bazaar bought) (x 10 times)
  • Factoring in a 10 CP Scandal reduction
• And choosing For someone who has it all, or at least most of it for 12

For a total of 2.54 EPA

This can be improved later by unlocking Ermine Assassin during the yearly Hallowmas Event. With the assassin, an option on City Vices: a tournament of weasels! becomes quite profitable, as:

• From Attend with your Ermine Assassin - option on City Vices: a tournament of weasels! (x 10 times)
• And choosing For someone who has it all, or at least most of it for 12

For a total of 4.27 EPA

Quite good, but we can do better! Once you unlocked the Bone Market, as a Mid-Game PoSI, the option Raw material becomes available. Thus, the analysis is as follows:

• From the same Attend with your Ermine Assassin - option on City Vices: a tournament of weasels! (x 10 times)
• And choosing Raw material for 22

For a total of 5.18 EPA

Now, the following method requires a number of precursor conditions:

• Access to the first Rayway Station - a Late-Game content story
• Access to the Iremi Exchange or Irem in general - a reward for finishing the Evolution story; an Ambition-sized storyline

But, once these conditions are met, the following strategy can be performed:

• From the same Attend with your Ermine Assassin - option on City Vices: a tournament of weasels! (x 10 times)
• And choosing A bag of jangling coins for 14.5 and x 3 Justificande Coin
  • Coins which can be exchanged 26 at a time for a Night-Whisper
  • Item, which can be later put through the Rat Market for a better turnin
• These prices convene in three stages based on Rat Market Saturation (see The Rat Market (Guide) and calculator for exact pricing), resulting in the following totals:
  • 5.36 EPA - First threshold (First ~10 items)
  • 5.23 EPA - Second threshold (Next ~18 items)
  • 5.16 EPA - Last threshold (Any subsequent items)
    • Zailing actions were ignored, as was the action cost of entering the Rat Market, since for a large enough quantity, these actions nulify, or at most, slightly lower the EPA by a negligible amount.