Summer festivals/Item Overview

This content is only available during Summer festivals!

The purpose of this guide is to help players decide how to spend their allowance of Estival Token every year.

S Tier

These are must-have items; these unlock very useful options that players will be very glad to have, either from convenience or profitability. Items with notable stats are located here as well.

S Tier

Item	Slot	Tokens	Notable Stats	Notable Uses	Other Notes
Augmented Electrostatic Machine	Transport	30	Shared BIS Kataleptic Toxicology	Turns Hedonist into two Parabolan Orange-apple in Parabola	Peer Kataleptic Toxicology transport is technically freely available, but it's Your Very Own Hellworm, Saddled and Bridled. Possibly of interest to those who are grinding A Poet-Laureate.
A Hungry Little Snuffbox	Weapon	30	Strict BIS for Artisan of the Red Science	None.	None.
Overwrought Bathtub	Home Comfort	30	Strict BIS for Artisan of the Red Science	None.	None.
A Patron of the Pliable Arts	Affiliation	50	Strict BIS for Bizarre and Shapeling Arts, shared non-Mood BIS for BDR.	None.	None.
Strangling Willow Ring	Gloves	20	Strict BIS for Mithridacy, shared BIS for Persuasive	None.	Persuasive peer items are easily accessible.
Polythremean Peacoat	Clothing	20	Strict BIS for Zeefaring, shared BIS for Neathproofed and BDR.	None.	None.
Honey-Stained Shackles	Boots	30	Strict BIS for Glasswork, shared BIS for Dreaded	None.	None.
Elevating Silk Slippers	Boots	30	Strict BIS for Monstrous Anatomy, shared BIS for Dangerous	None.	Peer Dangerous items includes the easily-available Pair of Vakeskin Boots
Corinthian Belfry Hat	Hat	20	Strict BIS for Shadowy	None.	Provides three points of Shadowy over the Bazaar-buyable Sneak-Thief's Mask, and one point over the Tanned Mask from FRUITS OF THE ZEE.
Epicurean War-Helm	Hat	20	Strict BIS for Dangerous	None.	Provides two points of Dangerous over the freely-available 'Surplus' Captain's Hat
Velvet Cloak with Burning Buttons	Clothing	30	Strict BIS for Artisan of the Red Science, one point of Neathproofed.	None.	None.
'Lucky' Claw	Gloves	30	Strict BIS for Glasswork and shared BIS for Persuasive	The Efficient Commissioner's Nightmare	Persuasive peer items are easily accessible.
Horseless, Driverless, Remorseless Carriage	Transport	50	Strict BIS for Artisan of the Red Science. Also tied for second best BIS for Dangerous, behind Your Very Own Hellworm, Saddled and Bridled	None.	None.
Fourth City Eyeball	Hat	30	Shared BIS for A Player of Chess	None.	Peer item, The Captivating Princess' Third-Best Tiara is available during HALLOWMAS for 20 FATE

A Tier

These are items that are extremely useful and unlock options that a player may be very glad to have. This also includes items that have notable stats, but with easily accessible alternatives.

A Tier

Item	Slot	Tokens	Notable Stats	Notable Uses	Other Notes
Verdant Hairpin	Weapon	20	Shared BIS for Glasswork	None.	Ambition: Heart's Desire! and Ambition: Bag a Legend! have peer items available as part of their Ambition. The False-Star Catalogue available during Spring at the Rat Market is available to all players as well.
A Rack of Carefully-Individuated Deaths	Weapon	20	Shared BIS for Kataleptic Toxicology	None.	Peer items from several sources: freely available ( Honest Butcher's Tool), FATE locked except for Hellworm Gachapon ( Vial of Cantigaster Venom), or from WHITSUN ( Telsonic Signet)
Genuine Rubbery Lumps	Gloves	20	Shared BIS for Persuasive and Neathproofed	None.	Peer Persuasive items are easily available and a peer Neathproof item, Devil's Dictionary, is available from a story at the Hurlers.
Highly-Accurate Gargoyle	Home Comfort	30	Shared BIS for Monstrous Anatomy	None.	Freely available alternative available as part of Evolution
Cloud-filled Sphere	Home Comfort	30	Shared BIS for Shapeling Arts	A unique option when shaping dreams for the Sculptress	Free alternative available at the conclusion of the Railway story

B Tier

Beyond this point items are no longer BIS in any sense, though they may be statistically interesting in some other way, unlock useful one-time options, or repeatable, but niche ones.

B Tier

Item	Tokens	Notable Uses	Other Notes
The Neathy Tarot, Featuring all 77 of the Major Arcana	20	Shortcut a certain step when upgrading your Lab	None.
Indignant Bearskin	20	One of several options to become Acquainted with Sophia's	One point of Neathproofed, which several free, non-seasonal hats also provide.
The Contrarian's Monochromatic Lantern	20	One of several options to build a Watchtower in Ealing Gardens.	None.

C Tier

These items have highly niche uses at best.

C Tier

Item	Tokens	Notable Uses	Other Notes
Mr Slowcake's Caducean Rose	20	A shortcut on a certain hunt in Parabola	You are required to do the hunt once as part of the Shadowy Gains story and then are unlikely to ever do so again. Even if you do, this "shortcut" will only save you 1-2 actions.
A Mutton Island Account	50	Deal with Corporate Debt	This option is just bad. You'd rather boomerang the Tentacled Entrepreneur. Or the Gracious Widow. Or His Amused Lordship.

F Tier

Roleplaying is its own reward, don't you think?

F Tier

Item	Tokens
A Bottle of Angry Bees	20
A Traitor's Carriage	30
Devilbone Talons	20
A Seven-Times-Exiled Parliamentarian's Guide to Electioneering	40
Voting Booth of One's Own	50

Special Note: The Waswood & Festival Story Items

We can reasonably expect previous Summer events to show up in the Waswood eventually, as part of the Sacroboscan Calendar. Items that were part of the story and not available for Estival Token may become accessible there as well, either in their original form or altered to suit their new Parabolan setting. Possibly some of them might even become permanently accessible in future content. Who's to say. But don't expect to be able to acquire them.

Story Items

Item	Slot	Notable Stats	Notable Uses	Other Notes
A Preserver of London	Affiliation	Shared BIS for Artisan of the Red Science and Respectable, and reduces Suspicion. BIS non-Mood for BDR.	Unlocks a unique title for your character	Freely available peer Artisan of the Red Science item in Appointment at Lowell's, and peer AOTRS and Suspicion item is FATE-locked at CHRISTMAS, The Undying Respect of the Order of the Blackened Hoof. Many peer BDR items are easily available, such as Membership of God's Editors. The Waswood version of the Grand Clearing Out provides a new item instead of this, called A Reverie of Heroism. It is in no way a mechanical replacement.
A Bronze Plaque Dedicated to Your Good Self	Affiliation	Strict BIS for Monstrous Anatomy, shared BIS for Respectable. BIS non-Mood for BDR.	None.	The Prelapsarian Exhibition has yet to be added to the Waswood.
Your Name in F.F. Gebrandt's Address Book	Affiliation	Strict BIS for A Player of Chess	None.	The Prelapsarian Exhibition has yet to be added to the Waswood.
An Initiate into the Perfumer's Arts	Affiliation	Strict BIS for Kataleptic Toxicology, shared non-Mood BIS for Dreaded and BDR.	None.	The Prelapsarian Exhibtion has yet to be added to the Waswood.
A Stalking Stone Shadow of your Very Own	Burden	None.	None.	The Prelapsarian Exhibition has yet to be added to the Waswood.
A Stalking Stone Shadow Beyond the Glass	Affiliation	Shared BIS for Mithridacy	None.	Peer item available for those who take a certain option in Ambition: Heart's Desire!. The Prelapsarian Exhibition is yet to be added to the Waswood, but of the seemingly-retired items, this is the most likely one to become available again, since the hunt itself is still present.
Lingering Excitation	Hat	+20 to both Watchful and Dangerous	None.	Special Mood only available during the Prelapsarian Exhibition. The Prelapsarian Exhibition is yet to be added to the Waswood.
Lingering Contentment	Hat	+20 to both Persuasive and Shadowy	None.	Special Mood only available during the Prelapsarian Exhibition. The Prelapsarian Exhibition is yet to be added to the Waswood.