The Cheesemonger (Guide)

This is the combined guide to On the Trail of the Cheesemonger and An Agent of the Cheesemonger. These storylines grant you The Great Game: A Fine Piece in the Game, if you choose to complete them, or several opportunities to gain Favours if you choose not to.

On the Trail of the Cheesemonger[edit]

This storyline is advanced entirely through opportunity cards. You can get the first level by talking to the Gossip in your Lodgings (The first move in a Game), but the opportunity cards require A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets 3.

Card	Action	Challenge and cost	Additional reward
Level 0/1 - Each option also gives 1 CP On the Trail of the Cheesemonger
An evening of drink and intrigue	That group nursing a bottle near the fireplace...	30 12 x Bottle of Greyfields 1879
A day at the library	A bookmark	30
Thief!	After him!	30
A Little Eavesdropping	Follow them	30
Level 2 - Each option also gives 1 CP On the Trail of the Cheesemonger
The Cheesemonger?	Spies and couriers	30	5 x Cryptic Clue
What do the urchins know?	Perhaps dinner will do the trick	40 50 x Rat on a String	4 x Cryptic Clue
Who knows the Cheesemonger?	Ask about the Cheesemonger	30	5 x Cryptic Clue
Level 3 - Each option also gives a level of On the Trail of the Cheesemonger
Out of a job	Cutting a deal	200 x Jade Fragment	1 x The Great Game
The spy with the hat	Strolling at a discreet distance	40
Level 4 - Choosing an option gives An Agent of the Cheesemonger
The sign of the looped wire	Just who are you?	40	200 x Jade Fragment 1 x The Great Game
The sign of the looped wire	A well-known piece in the Game	Renown: The Great Game 6	200 x Jade Fragment 1 x The Great Game

An Agent of the Cheesemonger[edit]

This storyline is done partly through opportunity cards and partly through storylets. The first sections are particularly good for gaining favours.

Gaining favours[edit]

These cards are unlocked with 40 in a main attribute, as well as the right level of An Agent of the Cheesemonger.

The actions can be split in two sections. Spy actions give 1 CP An Agent of the Cheesemonger on a success on a challenge, as well as 32 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey. Favour actions give a favour of a type depending on who you're supposed to spy against.

At levels 4–5, getting favours costs a CP of An Agent of the Cheesemonger, and there's additionally an option to resign from the service of the Cheesemonger.

This section of the story is highly profitable, as favours are very valuable, either for direct profit or for renown. Some players avoid progressing the story at all, in order to keep playing these cards.

Card	Spy Challenge	Favour type
Unlocked at level 1–3
A task from the Cheesemonger	40	1 x Urchins
A commission from the Cheesemonger	48	0-1 Rubbery Men
A job from the Cheesemonger	48	1 x Tomb-Colonies^[1]
An assignment from the Cheesemonger	48	1 x The Church
Unlocked at level 4–5
A deed for the Cheesemonger	40	1 x Society
A mission from the Cheesemonger	48	1 x The Docks
An errand for the Cheesemonger	48	1 x Bohemians
An undertaking from the Cheesemonger	48^[2]	1 x Revolutionaries