User:34Witches/Ealing Gardens (Guide)

This article is a work-in-progress Working on a guide to Ealing Gardens, targeted at players who've just built their first station.

What's different in the Hinterlands?

Since Ealing is the first station on the Railway, this will be your first exposure to the Hinterlands. Most things here work the same as they do in London, but there are a few key differences.

• Your Opportunity Cards are drawn from a different deck. Some cards (like A Disillusioned Fungiculturalist) can be drawn in any Hinterlands location, while others (like Engage in Excavation) can only be drawn at a single station. These cards are still kept in your hand when you visit a different station, though.
  • Notably, many factions' 25 Renown items unlock new cards in the Hinterlands deck. For instance, the Language of Laces unlocks the card Which meeting?.
• The Bazaar is unavailable here. Instead, the Bazaar tab will give you access to the Upper River Exchange.
  • Most of the shops in the Upper River Exchange don't take Echoes. Rather, they require payment in Hinterland Scrip (1 Scrip is worth approximately 0.5E). You can easily exchange Scrip for Echoes by buying Tinned Ham for 125 Scrip each and selling for 63.5E, but going the other way is harder.
• Each time you travel to or from a Hinterlands area, you have to spend 1 action to board the train - you can't travel about freely like you can in London.

Things to do in Ealing

Offices of the Tracklayer's Union: Ealing Gardens Branch

The main purpose of this storylet is to let you build and upgrade various developments in Ealing. The first development you buy costs 50 Hinterland Scrip, while each further development costs 50 more (cumulatively: the second costs 100, the third 150 and so on). This is the same in all stations, though the selection of development will be different in each location.

Table of Ealing Gardens developments

Development	Additional costs/requirements	Effects/Notes
Commercial District		Can be built three times. Grants access to the Butcher's Shop. Further upgrades cause him to offer more services.
Virginia's Spa		Grants access to Virginia's Spa. Gives 2 Favours: Hell when initially built.
Statues	Each statue has a different requirement.	Adds the Under the Statue card to the Ealing deck. See Statues at the GHR Stations (Guide) for more details.
Watchtower	250 Phosphorescent Scarabs This cost can be skipped if you have any of these items: A False-Star of your Own Unquenchable Firebird The Contrarian's Monochromatic Lantern The Boatman's Lantern	Allows you to reduce Darkness. When initially built: -2 CP Ealing Gardens: Darkness -2 CP Seeing Banditry in the Upper River -3 CP Advancing the Liberation of Night +1 Supporting the Emancipationist Tracklayers