Editing The Temple Club (Guide)

{{Audience|EarlyPoSI}}
So you've heard of the highly exclusive {{IL|The Temple Club|Appearance=Temple Club}}, have you? Unless you're a member of a highly select group of investors, (Kickstarter backers of [[The Silver Tree]] or [[Mask of the Rose: a Fallen London romance|Mask of the Rose]]) you will need an invitation to get in. You will either need to have one of these important persons send you one or you can use a one-time access code to receive three. But if you are to make the most of your time there, you'd best be prepared, as you won't be able to easily return.

==Gaining Admission==
If you are not a member of the Club, you will either require a friend who can send you an invite with [[Make the invitation]] or you can get three free invitations with the access code below. As you will only have three chances normally, it is best to plan out your visits to make the most of it.
{{Access Code
|Code = https://www.fallenlondon.com/a/toc8478427505558293e81290
|Image = Templeclub.png
|Description = In an unprecedented move, the clandestine and obscure Temple Club has opened its doors to the public. It is a place for free thinkers, radical antiquarians and luminaries of the modern age to gather amidst the ruins of the Fourth City.
|Result = The Temple Club is open to you, for a time. They congregate in a burnt temple deep within the Forgotten Quarter. Amongst the cinders they discuss ways that the world may be other than it is now.
|Result instructions = [This code will permit you entry to the Temple Club three times. Find it on your Map, near the Forgotten Quarter.]
}}
*{{Gain|Discovered: the Temple Club|occurrence=1}}
*{{Gain|An Invitation to dinner at the Temple Club|3 x}}

==Mechanically Unique Actions==
You may be asking yourself, "Why might I want use my tickets for the Temple Club?". To wit, there are four things you can do there that are particularly noteworthy.
===Obtain a discount Lengthy Lease to Premises at the Bazaar===
A {{IL|Lengthy Lease to Premises at the Bazaar}} can be had at the temple club for {{IL|Volume of Collated Research|250 x}} which is only {{e}}625 instead of the {{e}}800 that it would cost at Penstock's.
===Commission a portrait===
This is the only place where {{IL|A Portrait in the Bazaarine Style}} can be acquired. This is a longer term goal as its requirements are end game, and its stats aren't remarkable, but it is a rare item for your mantle. The requirements are as follows:
* {{IL|Notability}} 10
* {{IL|Scandal}} 7 (As scandal cannot be acquired here, make sure to have enough upon entering if you're going for this.)
* {{IL|Involved in a Railway Venture}} 10
* {{IL|Renown: Bohemians}} 25
* {{IL|Drop of Prisoner's Honey|500 x}}
===Learn of the Red Science without a laboratory===
[[Ponder the nature of the Red Science|There is a way to train]] {{IL|Artisan of the Red Science}} at the Temple Club without researching it in the lab. That said, at a 5% chance for a rare success, this is more action intensive than just studying the brickwork in the lab. Expect to spend 100 {{IL|Jasmine Leaves}} and 20 actions for every CP and expect to pay on average, 1400 {{IL|Jasmine Leaves}} and 280 actions to go from {{IL|Artisan of the Red Science}} 1 to 5. That said unlike studying in the lab, you earn {{e}}1.50/action rather than losing honey from jaunts into the parabola.  Still if you have a grind better than {{e}}3.20/action, the lab is the better choice. 
''Note: This will not give you {{IL|Artisan of the Red Science}} if you do not already have it.''
===Grind Connected: The Masters===
{{IL|Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar}} can be increased by talking to [[The drunk in the corner]] at the cost of {{IL|Romantic Notion|2500 x}} per CP of Connected. This is the only repeatable storylet for raising connected. At {{e}}250 / CP this is cheaper than [[Homage to the paper-man]] but more expensive than [[The special books]] and [[Present it with the Curatorial Cocktail]], all of which rely on opportunity cards. It's also ''vastly'' more expensive than via [[The Machinations of the Masters]], though that is also card-driven and only available late in the Railway,  you've completed your Ambition, and also after you've hit the Persuasive cap.

This storylet lets you grind Connected up to level 11.

==Stories==
Mechanically, the stories at the temple club are mostly about exchanging one set of resources for another set, and none of them require any checks.

===A Coin in the Fountain===
[[A Coin in the Fountain]] converts {{IL|Jade Fragment|50 x}} into either {{IL|Vision of the Surface|5 x}} or a pair of second chances ({{IL|Hard-Earned Lesson}}/{{IL|Hastily Scrawled Warning Note}}) OR ({{IL|Confident Smile}}/{{IL|Sudden Insight}}) with a chance to lose and only gain {{IL|Nightmares}} +1 CP. If you require second chances, this is the easiest grindable source of them, and may be worth investing in if you come to the temple club for other reasons.

===Chart the Course of Empire===
[[Chart the Course of Empire]] gives you access to a number of exchanges.
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!width=20% |Storylet
!width=40%|Requirement
!width=40%|Reward
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[Fund revolutionary research]]
|{{IL|Foxfire Candle Stub|300 x}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory|1 x}}|{{IL|Advancing the Liberation of Night:}} +3 CP}}
|-
|colspan=2|This is resource negative, but may be one of the easiest repeatable sources of {{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory}}, as all others require multiple actions.
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[Fund Tomb-Colonist defences]]
|{{IL|Piece of Rostygold|300 x}}
|{{IL|Knob of Scintillack|1 x}}
|-
|colspan=2|This is resource negative, but may be one of the easiest sources of {{IL|Knob of Scintillack|1 x}}, as all others require multiple actions.
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[Assist acquaintances entangled in bureaucracy]]
|{{IL|Favours: Society|1 x}}
|{{IL|Jade Fragment|{{IL|Persuasive|Appearance=}}*1.5 x}} (Average)
|-
|colspan=2|This is a bad use of your favours. Many other places provide higher returns.
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[Finance one of the Widow's vessels]]
|{{IL|Zee-Ztory|6 x}}
|{{IL|Connected: The Widow}} +10 CP (Up to level 30)
|-
|colspan=2|This is a relatively expensive source of connected, but the best non airs-dependent source between levels 0-9 and 20-29.
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[The drunk in the corner]]
|{{IL|Romantic Notion|2500 x}}
|{{IL|Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar}} +1 CP (Up to level 11)
|-
|Colspan=2|[[The Temple Club (Guide)#Grind Connected: The Masters|See above discussion]]
|-
|}

===Influence the Spirit of the Age===
[[Influence the Spirit of the Age]] gives you access to a number of exchanges.
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!width=20% |Storylet
!width=40%|Requirement
!width=40%|Reward
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[Finance a Palaeontological Expedition]]
|{{IL|Cellar of Wine|1 x}}
|{{IL|Bone Fragments|100 x}} and one of: {{TableList|{{IL|Plated Skull|1 x}}|{{IL|Albatross Wing|1 x}}|{{IL|Thorned Ribcage|1 x}}|{{IL|Human Arm|5 x}}}}
|-
|colspan=2|If you need bones, most of these are pretty good results, and none are less than 13.5{{e}} worth of items, and occasionally you'll get the {{IL|Plated Skull}} for 26{{e}} of items.
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[Ponder the nature of the Red Science]]
|{{TableList|{{IL|Artisan of the Red Science}}|{{IL|Jasmine Leaves|5 x}}}}
|{{IL|Cryptic Clue|100 x}} and rarely {{IL|Artisan of the Red Science}} +1 CP
|-
|colspan=2|[[#Training Artisan of the Red Science|See Discussion Above]]
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[Make discreet inquiries into the Tragedy Procedures]]
|{{IL|Fragment of the Tragedy Procedures}} (Not Consumed)
|{{IL|Cryptic Clue|100 x}}
|-
|colspan=2|At 2{{e}}/action, this is a terrible way to make money by the time you are likely to have a Fragment. But the lore provided is ''quite'' interesting.
|- 
|rowspan=2|[[Fund the work of an Unconventional Theologian]]
|{{TableList|{{IL|A Church in the Wild}} 50|{{IL|Foxfire Candle Stub|100 x}}}}
|{{IL|Palimpsest Scrap|5 x}}
|-
|colspan=2|This is the cheapest single action exchange for {{IL|Palimpsest Scrap}}.
|- 
|[[Commission a portrait]]
|Colspan=2|[[#Commission a portrait|See above discussion]]
|}

===The Immaculate Entrepreneur===
[[The Immaculate Entrepreneur]] exchanges T1 items for T3 items at a better action economy than one would receive doing the normal exchange.
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!width=20% |Storylet
!width=40%|Requirement
!width=40%|Reward
|- 
|[[Paintings]]
|{{IL|Drop of Prisoner's Honey|450 x}}
|{{IL|Vision of the Surface|20 x}}
|- 
|[[Alarming]]
|{{IL|Primordial Shriek|450 x}}
|{{IL|Correspondence Plaque|20 x}}
|- 
|[[Sly]]
|{{IL|Stolen Correspondence|180 x}}
|{{IL|Compromising Document|20 x}}
|- 
|[[A new home]]
|colspan=2|[[The Temple Club (Guide)#Obtain a discount Lengthy Lease to Premises at the Bazaar|See above discussion]]
|-
|}

===The Little Things===
[[The Little Things]] is a small story with no mechanical benefit about spirits in the flames. It is quite short, and requires only {{IL|Nightmares}} 2 and a {{IL|Relic of the Fourth City}}.

===Invite someone else to the Temple Club===
Lastly, if you are a {{IL|Membership of the Temple Club -|Appearance=full fledged member of the club}} you may [[Invite someone else to the Temple Club|invite friends in]], providing them with an additional invitation.

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