User:Lywn/sandbox
Bohemians[edit]
There are a few good card options for Bohemian favours, including the Forger or Singer on A Visit and the Young Stag's club card. Otherwise, Mahogany Hall can grant 1 favour per 9 actions by attending the Thursday performance.
Hell[edit]
A fast way to gain Hell favours is by selling cover identities to Devils via the card Halfway to Hell (this method requires a railway as far as Balmoral and a Cabinet Noir. Since there are far fewer cards that can be drawn in the Upper River, this card can be drawn more frequently than favour cards in London.
The Cover Identity requires a Society favour (which have many more sources than Hell favours), or 250 Cryptic Clues with a Surveilling Spindlewolf. Not counting actions needed for travel, or to get favours or cryptic clues, this method reaches 2 favours per 5 actions.
If you are lucky, another good way to raise favours is by Attending a Party. The Brass Ambassador can give you 2 favours for a Bottle of Broken Giant 1844 at 6 time remaining, and 1 favour for an Infernal Contract at 1 time remaining.
Revolutionaries and The Great Game[edit]
A fast method of gaining Revolutionary and Great Game favours is via the chessboard in Parabola. This method involves playing a round of chess as white or black until you reach the endgame, and then choosing to Betray! Destroy! Take white down from the inside!, or Betray! Destroy! Take black down from the inside! for 3 favours from the Revolutionaries or Great Game respectively. You will need A Player of Chess 4.
This method will cycle between granting Revolutionary and Great Game favours. At the end of the round, you will switch your chessboard colour, and increase or decrease Advancing the Liberation, locking you out of playing as your first colour in the next round. Play another round, this time as your new colour, and then Betray! again to get three favours. You will switch back to your first, and be able to repeat the process.
A round of chess takes 9 actions, so this methods results in 3 actions per favour.
Note that using this method you can only gain a maximum of 6 favours (3 each time). If you are using favours to raise your renown, you will also need to leave Parabola to use the faction item, so there is the extra cost of an action and 50-100 honey to enter Parabola.
Rubbery Men[edit]
Rubbery Men have few card options, and no particularly good options for storylets - 1 favour per 24 actions in the Fate-locked Flute Street, or 21 actions + sailing there and back on Bullbone Island.
As for cards, there is the option of the Rubbery faction card, the Inverted Stalactite card while wearing a Stalactite Society, or the infrequent card Ministry Enforcement in Ealing Gardens.
If you are lucky, you can raise favours by Attending a Party. The Tentacled Entrepreneur can give you 1-2 favours for at 5 time remaining, and 1 favour for an Infernal Contract at 2 time remaining.
Society[edit]
The fastest storylet option for Society favours is the Fate locked Sinning Jenny's Finishing school, with 12 actions for 0-2 favours. However, Society is one faction where there are many card opportunities, including the Clay Sedan Chair's card, the Functionary and Music-Hall Singer from A Visit, and several options while Attending a Party (Guide).
