A Conversation with Mr Spices

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ID: 335063

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A looming figure swaddled in precious silks wanders about the Factory, killing time. You find it idly playing with a conveyor belt on the factory floor. […] "I have merely come to inspect the production of certain special extracts."

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

Unlocked with Status of the Station VIII Dirigible exactly 20

Storylet appears in Station VIII

Options:

Observe the behaviour of a Storm-bird in the vicinity of Mr Spices

•  Spoiler ID: 245952
  

  Unlocked with Watchful Gains 12, Storm-bird
  

   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, Glasswork 5 (50% base) || 1 and below - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 8 - very modest (80%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

  Success

  A melting

  • You've lost 1 x Storm-bird
  •  You've gained 2 x Blackmail Material

  Failure

  A melting

  • You've lost 1 x Storm-bird
  •  You've gained 2 x Blackmail Material
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)

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Ask what it knows about Furnace Ancona

•  Spoiler ID: 245953
  

  Action Cost: 0
  Locked with Furnace's Fate Revealed
  

   

  Success

  Who?

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Ply it with aspic dosed with its own drug

•  Spoiler ID: 245943
  

  Unlocked with Current Culinary Concoction exactly 7 (Suspend the pickle in a Venison Aspic – spiked with Mr Spices' new drug)
  

   

  Success

  A Master, plied

  •  You've gained 5 x Extraordinary Implication
  •  You've gained 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
  • Your 'Current Culinary Concoction' Quality has gone!
  • Your 'Culinary Ingredient Value' Quality has gone!
  •  You've gained 1 x Meals Served at Station VIII

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Offer Mr Spices your medical opinion on its peculiar health

•  Spoiler ID: 246246
  

  Unlocked with Watchful Gains 15-18, Base Watchful 215, 3 x Blackmail Materials, 1 x Halcyonic Tonic, 1 x Fillip of Effervescence
  

   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Watchful 215 || 147 - very chancy (41%) || 183 - chancy (51%) || 219 - modest (61%) || 255 - very modest (71%) || 291 - low-risk (81%) || 327 - straightforward (91%) || 359 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Each point of Kataleptic Toxicology reduces the base difficulty by 10 points.

  Success

  Symptoms both intellectual and emotional

  Success Instructions: You can investigate the tears at your Laboratory.
  

  • Watchful is increasing…
  • Your maximum Watchful is now 218. (Sets Watchful Gains to 18)
  • You've lost 1 x Halcyonic Tonic
  • You've lost 1 x Fillip of Effervescence

  Failure

  An alarming sequence of symptoms

  • Watchful is increasing…
  •  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)

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Return to Mr Spices with the results of your investigation

•  Spoiler ID: 252022
  

  Unlocked with Watchful Gains exactly 21
  Locked with Locomotive Plans from Mr Spices
  

   

  Success

  A confession, and a request

  Success Instructions: Until you begin building the locomotive in your Laboratory, you can still consult with the Solicitor-Baroness in London. This will give you another option for how to eventually resolve this story, but it is not required to keep raising your Watchful Gains.
  

  •  You now have 1 x Locomotive Plans from Mr Spices

  Without A Design for an Unusual Locomotive:

  •  An occurrence! Your 'A Design for an Unusual Locomotive:' Quality is now 1 - Plans Supplied by Mr Spices!

  With A Design for an Unusual Locomotive: 3 - Plans Supplied by the Solicitor-Baroness

  •  An occurrence! Your 'A Design for an Unusual Locomotive:' Quality is now 2 - Competing Plans Supplied by Mr Spices and the Solicitor-Baroness!

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