User:Fynnkaterin/Location Unlocking
A quick-reference guide to unlock requirements for all locations.
Most locations in London can be permanently unlocked, meaning that after you've learned of their existence and visited them once (meeting any unlock requirements), they are accessible for free thereafter.
A few locations in London are gated locations, indicated by a gate icon above their map label. These have unlock requirements you must meet every time you visit them. For some (such as The Clay Quarters and Doubt Street), you have to pay in items; for others, you have to possess a special item or quality to enter (such as 
Membership of the Temple Club, or being An Exceptional Friend to access the House of Chimes).
Locations outside London are those not directly accessible via the map. These include temporary locations like Arbor, the various Menace locations, the Hinterlands, Parabola, and places accessed by zailing.
Places that can only be accessed once you are a Person of Some Importance are marked 
PoSI, with a reference to the PoSI-associated prerequisite to access. The most common PoSI requirements for locations are access to a Parabolan Base-Camp, a University Laboratory, or your own ship for Zailing.
London map locations[edit]
These places are accessible from the main London map, either directly or from within another map-accessible area.
Area-Diving in Spite: In the Spite map area. Unlocked with A Name Whispered in Darkness 2.
Base-Camp (Forgotten Quarter): Accessible once you permanently unlock the Forgotten Quarter and set up camp. See Forgotten Quarter Expeditions (Guide).
Bazaar Side-streets: Unlocked during the Person of Some Little Consequence story that ultimately grants PoSI status.
The Blind Helmsman: In the Wolfstack Docks map area. Permanently unlocked when you're invited to duel the Black Ribbon.
The Bone Market: PoSI (Laboratory). Accessed via The Back Stair to the Bone Market in the Dept. of Menace Eradication. See Assembling a Skeleton (Guide).
Cave of the Nadir: Initially accessed through the Secular Missionary storyline, then afterwards via your Base-Camp. See Cave of the Nadir (Guide).
The Clay Quarters: Gated location in the Ladybones Road map area, available when you start The Case of the Disappearing Heiress. The unlock requirements vary depending on your progress in certain stories.
- Enter the Clay Quarters: If you have not finished The Case of the Disappearing Heiress, you can gain access the first time with
50 x Moon-Pearl and 
50 x Whispered Hint. After the first time, using this option is free until you've finished the case. - Once you finish the case, entrance requirements depend on your
Mired in Clay quality. This is initially set based on how you wrap up the case, but can be changed by writing a travelogue in Polythreme.
- Demand access to the Clay Quarters for
1 x Tale of Terror!!, with Mired in Clay 1–2. - Request access to the Clay Quarters for
2 x Inkling of Identity, with Mired in Clay 3–5.
- Demand access to the Clay Quarters for
Concord Square: In the Ladybones Road map area, accessible once you have a Velocipede.
The Crowds of Spite: In the Spite map area. Unlocked with 
Shadowy 10 in the storylet Try the Pickpocket's Promenade! See The Crowds of Spite (Guide).
The Department of Menace Eradication: In the Watchmaker's Hill map area. Permanently unlocked for free from Watchmaker's Hill, via Visit the Department of Menace Eradication.
Doubt Street: In the Spite map area.
The Empress' Court: In the Shuttered Palace map area.
- Initially unlocked via An Audience with the Duchess with
Flourish 4. Requires 
Renown: Society 5, 
Connected: The Duchess 5, and one of the following: 
500 x Rat on a String, 
500 x Jade Fragment, or 
25 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip. - After being Banished from the Court, complete 5 terms as governor of Port Carnelian and then Host a State Dinner to be Restored to the Court. See Port Carnelian (Guide).
- Temporary unlock: The Ways of the Flit Opportunity Card (with A Name Whispered in Darkness 3–5); costs 20 x Rat on a String.
- Permanent unlock: Enter the Flit.
- Climb to the Flit, a Shadowy 50 challenge costing 5 actions.
- Bribe your way into the Flit for 1200 x Moon-Pearl.
- Climb to the Flit, a
The Foreign Office: PoSI. Accessible once you have been Banished from the Court.
- Temporary unlock: The Ways of the Forgotten Quarter Opportunity Card (with A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets 4–6); costs
50 x Soul. Note that you cannot set up a Base-Camp until you permanently unlock the Forgotten Quarter. You can also permanently unlock the area with Fate on this card. - Permanent unlock: During the Raid on the Brass Embassy.
- Plan the raid for the Constables (
Watchful 63) requires 
500 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 250 x Soul, and 
100 x Cryptic Clue. - Warn your contacts at the Embassy ( Watchful 63) requires 500 x Soul, 250 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, and 100 x Cryptic Clue.
- Plan the raid for the Constables (
House of Chimes: Accessible to Exceptional Friends. Located between the Veilgarden and Forgotten Quarter map areas, in the partially submerged remains of a certain clock tower.
- Temporary unlock: Buy a ticket to the Labyrinth of Tigers for
10 x Appalling Secret, from the card The Ways of the Labyrinth of Tigers with A Name Scrawled in Blood 5–6. - Permanent unlock: A letter from Mr Inch, with
A Procurer of Savage Beasts 5. Part of the Name Scrawled in Blood storyline. - Permanent unlock (Fate): A way to the Labyrinth (10 FATE) from The Ways of the Labyrinth of Tigers.
Ladybones Road: Starting location.
Mahogany Hall: Location in the Spite map area.
The Medusa's Head: In the Watchmaker's Hill map area. Permanently unlocked for free from Watchmaker's Hill, via Visit the Medusa's Head.
Moloch Street: Location in the Ladybones Road map area, unlocked either by tracking down the Honey-Addled Detective, or by beginning the Case of the Disappearing Heiress (with A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets 3).
Mrs Plenty's Carnival: Starting location.
- There is an alternate version of this location accessed as part of the SMEN storyline.
Plan a Heist: Permanently unlocked via Your Adventures are an Inspiration, when you finish A Rash of Burglaries in The Flit.
On a Heist: Temporary location while carrying out any heist.
The Rat Market: Appears in the Flit between 11AM Friday and 11AM Monday. See The Rat Market (Guide).
- Temporary unlock
- The Ways of the Shuttered Palace Opportunity Card (with A Name Signed with a Flourish 3–5); costs
50 x Silk Scrap. - Freelance Smuggling Opportunity Card (with Shadowy 71)
- The Ways of the Shuttered Palace Opportunity Card (with A Name Signed with a Flourish 3–5); costs
- Permanent unlock: A Royal Invitation, with A Name Signed with a Flourish 3.
- Calling in favours (
Persuasive 60): 500 x Silk Scrap, 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip, 1 x Favours: Society - Hinting at one or two things you know ( Persuasive 60): 500 x Silk Scrap, 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip, 200 x Whispered Hint
- Calling in favours (
The Singing Mandrake: Starting location in the Veilgarden map area.
Spite: Starting location.
The University: Location in the Veilgarden map area.
- see Reflection of Your Laboratory for the equivalent location in Parabola.
Veilgarden: Starting location.
Veilgarden (Party): PoSI. Temporary location accessed from the Opportunity Card A Polite Invitation. See Attending a Party (Guide).
Watchmaker's Hill: Starting location.
Wilmot's End: PoSI. "A little known corner of Tyrant's Gardens" where the Great Game is played, and the location of the Foreign Office. There are several ways to unlock this route:
- Shadowy 110 and
Befriending a Rooftop Urchin 6: Speak to the Urchin on the Roof about Spying on the spies. - Shadowy 110 and
Renown: The Great Game 10: Choose Where's she going? on the card Don't you know her? - Persuasive 110: Speak to the Bohemian Sculptress about The Missing Woman at Wilmot's End.
- Persuasive 115 and Banished from the Court: You can get this route and A Diplomat in the Making (necessary to unlock the Foreign Office and ultimately Port Carnelian), in one action, if you Speak to the Bohemian Sculptress about A posting with the Foreign Office.
- If you happen to have gotten A Diplomat in the Making from the card The Servant of a Certain Gentleman instead, you may see the gold storylet The Way to Wilmot's End. Don't bother with it, as it costs
1 x Comprehensive Bribe; just go see the Bohemian Sculptress about The Missing Woman at Wilmot's End.
- Temporary unlock: The Ways of Wolfstack Docks Opportunity Card (with A Name Scrawled in Blood 3–5); costs 50 x Jade Fragment.
- Permanent unlock: The Mark of a True Duellist after finishing The Fighting Rings.
Your Activities: Requires 
Your Lodgings and A Name Signed With a Flourish 2.
Your Lodgings: Must have at least a 2-card Lodgings. For new players, this is most likely to be done via the storylet Find somewhere to live!
Your Social Engagements: Requires Your Lodgings.
Menace locations[edit]
Places that can only be reached by raising Menaces; see Menaces (Guide).
a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river: Menace location reached with Wounds 8.
Disgraced exile in the Tomb-Colonies: Menace location with Scandal 8.
The Mirror-Marches: Menace location with Nightmares 8.
New Newgate Prison: Menace location with Suspicion 8.
- Tutorial Prison is the version you start the game in.
A state of some confusion: Menace location, with Nightmares 8.
Parabola[edit]
See Parabola (Guide).
Base requirements: PoSI and a Laboratory.
Parabolan Base-Camp: Your base of operations. From here, you can deal with Wounds and Nightmares, hunt various beasts, or venture into other parts of Parabola.
Parabolan Pavilion: See Parabolan War (Guide)
Railway locations[edit]
Destinations along the Great Hellbound Railway (GHR). Also referred to as the Hinterlands or the Upper River. Once you've built each station, you can travel there from All aboard! at Moloch Street. Guides: Railway, Railway Beginning, Railway Board.
Base requirements: PoSI Tier 2 (any specialisation), Persuasive 175 (modified)
Jericho Locks: See Canal Cruising in Jericho Locks (Guide).
- The Cedarwood
- The Eversmoulder
- The Fiddler's Scarlet
- The Octagonal Tomb
- The Persephone
- The Sere Palace
The Magistracy of the Evenlode
- Diving in the Magistracy Basement: Accessed with an
Evenlode Diving Bell. 
The Evenlode- Evenlode Courts
A hidden camp nestled in the woods of Balmoral: Once your Railway is built out to the Evenlode, you can begin to draw cards in the Upper River that allow you to increase 
On the Trail of the Clay Highwayman (raising Investigating will help with this process). With this quality at 5, 
Seeing Banditry in the Upper River 8, and the station built at Balmoral, you may be Captured by the Clay Highwayman! and taken to his camp.
- Factory VIII
- Hillchanger Tower
Temporary locations[edit]
Areas not directly accessible by other means of travel.
Arbor, of the Roses: From the Opportunity Card A Dream of Roses. See Arbor (Guide).
The Liberation of Night: Visited when gaining certain Destinies during one of London's festivals.
The Mind of a Long-Dead God: Accessible with 
Stormy-Eyed 19 and What the Thunder Said 15, from the storylet The Thunder Takes Me Away. To return to London, you will have to decrease Stormy-Eyed to 0.
- Raising Dream qualities to reach this location: see Dreams (Guide): What the Thunder Said.
- With Renown: Urchins 40 and Favours: Urchins 7, you can claim
What Might Be A Thunderbolt. (Do not go to this location without the Renown and Favours—you have to lose all your Stormy-Eyed to leave, and build it back up again to return.) 
Ambition: Nemesis players can obtain 1 x Do You Recall? here.
A train going imprudently fast: Your location during a certain part of the Railway storyline.
Zailing locations[edit]
These areas can only be reached by Zailing; see Zailing (Guide).
Base requirements: PoSI and a ship. Exceptions: Polythreme (buy a ticket); Mutton Island during Fruits of the Zee.
Angler Crab Spawning Grounds: Set as your Zee destination when you Hunt an Angler Crab. (Angler Crab hunting season is a recurring event.)
The Court of the Wakeful Eye: Requires 
Associating with Radical Academics 20 (see Guide) to unlock the storylet allowing you to zail here.
Heartscross House: The Governor's Mansion at Port Carnelian.
Iron Republic Streets: You'll need an 
Iron Republic Safe-Conduct to get here, which requires 
1 x Brass Ring, 
3 x Mark of Credit Page, and 
Renown: Hell 10. Get this on either the Secrets and Spending Opportunity Card or by chatting with the Local Gossip.
The Khanate: Location in the Salt Steppes, accessible once you have 
Discovered: The Khanate.
The Copper Quarter: The publicly accessible portion of the Khanate.- Khan's Heart: Requires a
Khaganian Safe-Conduct; see Khaganian Intrigue (Guide).
Mutton Island: Accessible even without a ship during the Fruits of the Zee festival.
The Pillared Sea: Region of the Zee that various zailing routes pass through.
- Irem (currently inaccessible) may be discovered by passing through.
- With
Renown: The Docks 40 and Favours: The Docks 7, you may claim an 
Unexploded Mine.
Plated Seal Spawning Grounds: Set as your Zee destination when you Hunt a Plated Seal.
Polythreme: Can be reached before acquiring a ship by purchasing a ticket for 
150 x Map Scrap. See Polythremic Promenade (Guide).
Poring over the Maps: Your location when charting a course.
Port Carnelian: London's outpost on the Elder Continent. The Governor's Mansion is Heartscross House.
- Complete the Name Signed with a Flourish story, culminating in being Banished from the Court. (See the Making Your Name and Court guides.)
- Reduce your Scandal to return from the Tomb-colonies.
- Speak to the Bohemian Sculptress about A posting with the Foreign Office to gain A Diplomat in the Making.
- Enter the Foreign Office with 3 x Comprehensive Bribe.
- Raise Working toward a Foreign Posting to 7 and then choose The Manifestation of Promise.
- You can now Zail to The Elder Continent and head to Port Carnelian to being your governorship. See Port Carnelian (Guide) for how to pass your terms as Governor.
The Salt Steppes: Region of the Zee containing The Khanate.
The tomb-colony of Venderbight
Ambition locations[edit]
Places that can only be accessed as part of a certain Ambition.
The Abyssal Depths: Temporary location accessed during BaL 29.- The Convent: PoSI (Zailing) location during BaL 44–60.
Dr. Vaughan's Hidden Encampment: PoSI (Zailing) destination.
A Secluded Coastline: PoSI (Zailing) location.
The shadows of the Orphanage- The Silent Corridors of the Orphanage
A small, velvet lined box: If you attract too much attention in the Orphanage.- Your Flotilla: Set as your destination when zailing to A Secluded Coastline.
SMEN locations[edit]
Only accessible as part of Seeking Mr Eaten's Name.
NORTH
A place not worth visiting: SMEN location set as your destination when headed to the Approach to the Mountain.
Inaccessible locations[edit]
These are places, either labelled on the map or otherwise referred to, that are not directly visitable.
The Bazaar: In the Bazaar Side-streets map area. You may be looking for the Echo Bazaar, the main London shop location accessible via the Bazaar tab. There is also a 4-card and 5-card Lodgings available at the Bazaar.
The Brass Embassy: You may be looking for Moloch Street. A guest room at the Brass Embassy is also a 4-card and 5-card Lodgings.
Bugsby's Marshes: In the Watchmaker's Hill map area. It is implicitly accessed in certain cards at storylets, such as those involving shroom-hopping, and when hunting certain beasts that live there.
Gaider's Mourn: Currently inaccessible location at Zee.
Hater's Bridge: In the Bazaar Side-streets map area. Mentioned in a Feast of the Rose storylet involving the Crimson Captain.
Hell: You may be looking for The Gates of Hell, The Iron Republic Streets, Moloch Street, or Marigold Station.
The Hinterlands: Locations outside London along the Great Hellbound Railway; also referred to as the Upper River. Includes Ealing Gardens, Jericho Locks, the Magistracy of the Evenlode, Balmoral, Station VIII, Burrow-Infra-Mump, Moulin, the Hurlers, and Marigold Station.
Hood's Bridge: In the Bazaar Side-streets map area. Referenced in some Hallowmas storylets.
Irem: Currently inaccessible location at Zee.
The Orphanage: In the Flit map area. Not visitable, except during a certain part of Ambition: Light Fingers! (see the shadows of the Orphanage and the Silent Corridors of the Orphanage).
Prickfinger Wastes: In the Mrs Plenty's Carnival map area.
The Royal Bethlehem: You may be looking for A state of some confusion. A guest room at the Royal Beth is also a 4-card or 5-card Lodgings.
St. Fiacre's Cathedral: In the Veilgarden map area.
The Tomb-Colonies: You may be looking for Disgraced Exile in the Tomb-Colonies.
Tyrant's Gardens: The area where Wilmot's End and the Foreign Office are located.
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