The Cheesemonger (Guide)

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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.

Freelancing for the Cheesemonger[edit]

These cards are unlocked with 40 in a main attribute. The initial group of cards requires 1-3 levels of An Agent of the Cheesemonger; a advanced set of cards is available from levels 4-5. The actions on them all follow the same basic pattern.

Spy: The work you're actually told to do. These are attribute challenges with Broad difficulty of either 40 or 48. Success pays 32 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey and gives +1CP An Agent of the Cheesemonger.
Tipoff: Warn the target about the Cheesemonger. Gives a Favour from the associated faction. On the advanced cards from levels 4-5, costs -1CP An Agent of the Cheesemonger.
Resign. Appears only on the advanced cards at An Agent of the Cheesemonger 4-5. Returns the story to On the Trail of the Cheesemonger 4.

This section of the story is highly profitable, as Favours are very valuable, either for direct profit or for Renown. Tipoffs don't give menaces or cost resources, either, unlike normal faction card options. Keeping the story here is worth considering simply for easy access to Favours, which only grow in value as you unlock more uses for them.

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 Church
Unlocked at level 4–5
A Deed for the Cheesemonger	40	1 x Society
A Mission from the Cheesemonger	48	1 x Docks
An Errand for the Cheesemonger	48	1 x Bohemians
An Undertaking from the Cheesemonger	48^[2]	1 x Revolutionaries

↑ Also gives 24 x Cryptic Clue
↑ Has alternate challenge-free spy action costing 16 x Stolen Correspondence

Work at the Cheesemonger's Shop[edit]

Opportunity card

6 - What's that Smell?

Spite

Opportunity card

10 - More Work from the Cheesemonger

The Shuttered Palace

11 - The Valet

There is an option in this storylet to resign. As before, this resets your progress in the story to On the Trail of the Cheesemonger 4.

Spite

12 - Having Second Thoughts
13 - Look into the Cheesemonger's Past

Opportunity cards

14 - Just Passing the Shop
15 - A Note from the Cheesemonger

The Forgotten Quarter

16 - After the Cipher
17 - The Spy and the Cipher

There is one last opportunity here to resign from the Cheesemonger's service, returning all the way to On the Trail of the Cheesemonger 4. This time it will cost 1 x Favours: The Great Game. After this, the story cannot be reset.