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A Name Whispered in Darkness

Main Progress

Progress A Name Whispered in Darkness by completing the objectives for that level. Doing so will trigger an autofire storylet, listed below the objective, with several character-building alternatives.

The rewards that are common for all options are listed under the objective and include a substantial gain of Shadowy. Each option will also give a 5 CP swing of some quirks (up to level 15), completely wipe one menace and may have other effects such as setting your You Make Your Toasts To: or giving unique items.

Level	Objective	Branch	Quirks	Cure	Other
1	A Courier's Secret A Trove of Secrets (+65 CP)	Sell the letter to the highest bidder	+ -		-
		Keep it to yourself	+ -		1 x An Identity Uncovered!
		Trade it for something more practical	+ -		-
		Destroy the evidence	+ -		-
2	Making Your Name: the Next Step Making your Name: Catch a grey cat in the nave of the church of All Christs Raking the Muck of the Neath A Toast in the Shadows (+65 CP)	"The Cheery Man."	+ -		You Make Your Toasts To: 1
		"The Gracious Widow."	+ -		You Make Your Toasts To: 2
		"The Topsy King."	+ -		You Make Your Toasts To: 3
		Your own name	+ -		You Make Your Toasts To: 100
3	Villainy: Area-Diving A Confrontation in a Reeking Alley (+190 CP)	"Make a vivid example of him"	+ -		-
		"Befriend him"	+ -		-
		"Offer him recompense"	+ -		-
		"Offer him recompense, then betray him"	+ -		-
4	Making Your Name: Going Up in the World A Lofty Invitation (+200 CP)	Boast entertainingly of your recent adventures	+ -		-
		Concentrate on winning the game	+ -		250 x  Moon-Pearl
		Coax tricks of the trade from them	+ -		-
		Enjoy the wine, the company, and the view	+ -		-
5	Master Thief Your Adventures are an Inspiration (+200 CP)	...a grim tale of knives and tears	+ -		The Crimson Shadows
		...an inspiring tale of extra-legal generosity	+ -		An Angel Among Thieves
		...a thrilling tale of narrow escapes and breathless burglaries	+ -		The Devil's Courage
		...a chilling tale of mystery	+ -		The Thief With Neither Face nor Name
6	A burglary of the records office in Concord Square The Heart of the Law (+200 CP)	Solve long-abandoned cases	+ -		-
		Gather blackmail material on other criminals	+ -		-
		Destroy evidence endangering other criminals	+ -		-
		Learn to be a better criminal	+ -		-
7	Embroiled in the Wars of Illusion 1-9 A Council of Thieves (+100 CP)	Favour the Cheery Man	+ -		You Make Your Toasts To: 1
		Favour the Gracious Widow	+ -		You Make Your Toasts To: 2
		Favour the Topsy King	+ -		You Make Your Toasts To: 3
		Push your own suit	+ -		You Make Your Toasts To: 100

Other Progress

In addition to stories available as part of the main progression, A Name Whispered in Darkness unlocks a large number of other stories and content. Note that some of these are only available for a few levels and will become unavailable once you progress too far.

Level 0

Cards

• Dragsman's work (Locked with 3)
• A raid on the Observatory (Locked with 3)

Branches

• Follow an unsuspecting mark (Locked with 1)
• Eavesdrop on a random target (Locked with 1)

Individual storylets

• Making your Name: Shadowy (Patch)

Level 1

Cards

• Have you a Handkerchief? (Locked with 3)
• A Stray Consignment of Souls (Locked with 4)
• Help a Spy Distract an Inconvenient Tail (Locked with 4)
• Losing the Evidence (Locked with 4)
• An Elderly Lady has Hailed the Hansom Cab you Wanted! (Locked with 4)

Level 2

Stories

• Exacting the Urchins' Vengeance (Locked with 4)

Other major content

• Opportunism in Spite

Cards

• Romance and Practicality (Locked with 4)
• The Ever-present and Invisible Servantry (Locked with 4)
• Stark Villainy (Locked with 4)
• The Simple Joys of Villainy (Locked with 4)

Level 3

Stories

• A Survivor of the Affair of the Box

Other major content

• A Flash Lay: a New Scheme
• Working for the Widow

Cards

• Making Peace (Locked with 5)
• A Meeting of Cats (Locked with 5)
• Rob a Library at the University (Locked with 6)
• A riot in Spite! (Locked with 6)
• As Silent as the Grave? (Locked with 6)
• The Ways of the Flit (Locked with 6)
• Address the University (Locked with A Name Signed with a Flourish 6)

Branches

• Confound the Constables 0
• Burgle a grand residence 0
• Work the Carnival
• Waylay a Weasel-Seller

Level 4

Cards

• A Simple Job from a Devil (Locked with 6)

Other major content

• The Big Score: Choose a Target

Level 5

Other major content

• Embark on a Heist

Level 6

Other major content

• The Heights of Chicanery
• Bats and Cats

Cards

• The Ways of Mahogany Hall (Locked with 7)

A Name Scrawled in Blood

Main Progress

Progress A Name Scrawled in Blood by completing the objectives for that level. Doing so will trigger an autofire storylet, listed below the objective, with several character-building alternatives.

The rewards that are common for all options are listed under the objective and include a substantial gain of Dangerous. Each option will also give a 5 CP swing of some quirks (up to level 15), completely wipe one menace and may have other effects such as setting your Identified with a Tradition: or giving unique items.

Level	Objective	Branch	Quirks	Cure	Other
1	A Worryingly Large Rat A Rambunctious Celebration (+75 CP)	Decline	+ -		-
		Buy their drinks, and listen to them reveal their secrets	+ -		-
		Prove yourself	+ -		-
		Lead them to church, instead	+ -		-
2	Sorrow-spider infestation The Secret of your Success (+60 CP)	The School of Hard Knocks	+ -		Identified with a Tradition: 1
		The Forms of the Tomb-Colonies	+ -		Identified with a Tradition: 2
		The Adventuress' Correspondence Course	+ -		Identified with a Tradition: 3
		An amalgam of your own invention	+ -		Identified with a Tradition: 100
3	Troubled by Vermin Rattus Faber: Threat or Menace? (+200 CP)	"The rat is a noble creature!"	+ -		-
		"The only good rat is a dead rat!"	+ -		-
		"Rats are people, too."	+ -		-
		Unveil the ratty conspiracy!	+ -		-
4	Making your Name: the Fighting Rings The Mark of a True Duellist (+250 CP) Route:  Wolfstack Docks	On your face	+ -		A Facial Scar
		On your torso	+ -		A Scar Upon your Person
		On your heart	+ -		A Brooding Aura of Pain
		Scar? What scar?	+ -		A Notable Absence of Scars
5	A letter from Feducci A Response to Feducci (+250 CP)	With indignance	+ -		-
		With delight	+ -		-
		With composure	+ -		-
		Send no response	+ -		-
6	Duelling with the Black Ribbon A Gathering of the Black Ribbon (+200 CP)	On the damp cobbles of the Fifth City	+ -		Renown: Criminals (+3 CP) Dangerous (+50 CP) Identified with a Tradition: 1
		During your scandalled exile, when you studied the Forms	+ -		Renown: Tomb-Colonies (+3 CP) Identified with a Tradition: 2
		From an inspiring account of a battle at zee	+ -		Renown: The Docks (+3 CP) Identified with a Tradition: 3
		It was a strategem of your own devising	+ -		Identified with a Tradition: 100
7	Acquiring Exhibits for the Labyrinth of Tigers A Kindred Spirit (+250 CP)	A cave snake	+ -		-
		A hyena	+ -		-
		A tiger	+ -		-
		None of them!	+ -		-

Other Progress

In addition to stories available as part of the main progression, A Name Scrawled in Blood unlocks a large number of other stories and content. Note that some of these are only available for a few levels and will become unavailable once you progress too far.

Level 0

Other major content

• Contract: a Worryingly Large Rat

Cards

• A protector of cats (Locked with 3)
• "Stop! Thieves!" (Locked with 3)

Individual cards

• Making your Name: Dangerous (Patch)

Level 1

Other major content

• Contract: destroy an infestation of sorrow-spiders

Cards

• An Unwise Ambush (Locked with 4)
• The Mob (Locked with 4)
• A runaway horse! (Locked with 4)
• Demander for a day (Locked with 4)
• Will nobody help the poor fellow? (Locked with 5)
• A Duel with a Dead Man (Locked with 5)

Indivdual storylets

• Guard duty at the Observatory
• A Marksmanship Competition for a Prize of Jade!
• Needle-wrestling for a prize of rostygold (Locked with 4)
• Brawl at the Medusa's Head! (Locked with 4)

Level 2

Other major content

• Knife-and-Candle: The Gamekeeper's Cottage (RETIRED)
• Business on Watchmaker's Hill

Cards

• Harvesting Spider-silk (Locked with 5)
• Shroom-hopping: a quaint sport of the lower classes (Locked with 5)
• A Night for Knives and Candles (Locked with 5)
• Guard a Glim Claim(Locked with 5)
• For the People! (Locked with 6)

Level 3

Stories

• Commission: defend the Clay Men against Jack-of-Smiles
• An Annoyance to Jack-of-Smiles

Other major content

• The Fighting Rings

Cards

• The Tenor's Minder (Locked with 6)
• Rats Next Door (Locked with 6)
• The Ways of Wolfstack Docks (Locked with 6)

Individual storylets

• Donate your body to science for an hour or two.
• Rescue Shipwrecked Clay Men
• Deal with Unfinished Men
• Provide training at the Department of Menace Eradication
• Get to your quarry before Jack-of-Smiles (Locked with 6)

Level 4

Stories

• A Veteran of the Battle of Wolfstack Docks -

Cards

• Minding the Detective (Locked with 6)
• Academic Discipline (Locked with 6)
• A Night at the Carnival (Locked with 6)
• Ambushed by Pirates! (Locked with 6)
• His Young Lordship Seized by Tentacles (Locked with 6)
• What's in the sack, Jack? (Locked with 7)
• Moonish water (Locked with 7)

Individual storylets

• Smiles! Put that man down!
• Spider Wrangling (Locked with 5)
• A Ship in the Night (Locked with 7)

Level 5

Cards

• An evening's zailing (Locked with 7)
• The Ways of the Labyrinth of Tigers (Locked with 7)

Level 6

Branches

• Hunting to hounds

A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets

Main Progress

Progress A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets by completing the objectives for that level. Doing so will trigger an autofire storylet, listed below the objective, with several character-building alternatives.

The rewards that are common for all options are listed under the objective and include a substantial gain of Watchful. Each option will also give a 5 CP swing of some quirks (up to level 15), completely wipe one menace and may have other effects such as setting your Identified with a Philosophy: or gaining Renown and Favours.

Level	Objective	Branch	Quirks	Cure	Other
1	The Case of the Honey-Addled Detective Reconnecting to Reality (+50 CP)	Smack sense into him	+ -		-
		Reason with the Detective	+ -		-
		Observe him in his honey-addled state	+ -		-
		Go along with his delusion	+ -		-
2	Tattooed Messenger's contact Detective to Detective (+100 CP)	The Implacable Method	+ -		Identified with a Philosophy: 3
		The Unconfined	+ -		Identified with a Philosophy: 2
		The Doctrine of the Anchoress	+ -		Identified with a Philosophy: 1
		Your Own Genius	+ -		Identified with a Philosophy: 100
3	The Case of the Absconding Devil Called to Account (+150 CP)	You're better equipped to decide than most	+ -		-
		You did what felt right at the time	+ -		-
		Play with the Spies of the Great Game	+ -		-
		You were there. That gave you the right.	+ -		-
4	The Case of the Missing Heiress The Burden of Truth (+350 CP)	The Anchoress' Promise	+ -		Identified with a Philosophy: 1
		The Implacable's Lesson	+ -		Identified with a Philosophy: 3
		The Unconfined's Delight	+ -		Identified with a Philosophy: 2
		Your own mental fortitude	+ -		Identified with a Philosophy: 100
5	Making Your Name: A Raid on the Brass Embassy! Strange Fire (+400 CP) Route:  The Forgotten Quarter A Journal of Metaphysical Conjecture	You went for a night of drinking	+ -		-
		You provided a lecture (with An Infernal Informant)	+ -		-
		You provided a lecture (with A Constable's Pet)	+ -		-
		You consulted on another case (with An Infernal Informant)	+ -		-
		You consulted on another case (with A Constable's Pet)	+ -		-
		You went for a long walk to clear your head	+ -		-
6	The Secrets of the Stones Announcing your Findings (+400 CP) Route:  The University	As the Star of Society's Salons	+ -		Renown: Society (+3 CP) 3 x  Favours: Society
		By providing a lecture for young academics	+ -		Connected: Benthic (+25 CP) Connected: Summerset (+25 CP)
		By sharing your findings with the Revolutionaries	+ -		Renown: Revolutionaries (+3 CP) 3 x  Favours: Revolutionaries
		By keeping it to yourself	+ -		2 x  Confident Smile, 2 x  Sudden Insight
7	Featuring in the Tales of the University What is it all for? (+500 CP)	Knowledge is power	+ -		-
		Knowledge should serve humanity	+ -		-
		The pursuit of knowledge is the finest entertainment	+ -		-
		You pursue knowledge because you must	+ -		-

Other Progress

In addition to stories available as part of the main progression, A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets unlocks a large number of other stories and content. Note that some of these are only available for a few levels and will become unavailable once you progress too far.

Level 0

Cards

• An opportunity for profit (Locked with 3)
• Retrieve a courier's correspondence (Locked with 3)
• Neighbourhood watch (Locked with 3)
• A broken mind (Locked with 3)

Individual storylets

• Make Your Name! 1 (Locked with 4)
• Make Your Name! 2 (Locked with 6)
• Making Your Name: Watchful (Patch)

Level 1

Cards

• An intriguing rumour (Locked with 4)
• Eavesdropping in the gardens (Locked with 4)
• An Unsolved Riddle (Locked with 4)
• Just who is Blue Jack? (Locked with 5)
• Cleaning Up the Neighbourhood (Locked with 5)

Individual storylets

• Study the hidden language of tattoos (Locked with 2)
• Set a watch on the rear entrance of Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour (Locked with 2)
• Learn Clathermont the Tattooist's language of hints (Locked with 2)
• Sketch a tattoo-with-a-secret at Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour (Locked with 2)

Level 2

Stories

• Acquaintance: the Starving Poet

Other major content

• Working with the Honey-Addled Detective

Cards

• Panning the Unterzee (Locked with 5)
• Night Duty at Concord Square (Locked with 5)
• The Devil's Parrot (Locked with 5)
• Divining the Dirigibles (Locked with 5)
• The Secrets of Rats (Locked with 5)
• Digging in the city (Locked with 5)

Level 3

Stories

• Ascending the Reliables List of Mr Pages (also available from Mr Pages is a Master of the Bazaar, dealing with the printed word)
• On the Trail of the Cheesemonger (also available from The first move in a Game)

Other major content

• Life on Ladybones Road

Cards

• Tracking the Thief (Locked with 6)
• Unravelling Arson (Locked with 6)
• Undertakings (Locked with 6)
• A Day in the Garden (Locked with 6)
• Infiltrate a Gentlemen's Club (Locked with 6)

Level 4

Stories

• Investigating the Secrets of St Dunstan's
• Entwined in the Intrigues of the Clathermont Family

Cards

• The Dean's distress (Locked with 6)
• Recapturing a Prison Escapee (Locked with 6)
• The Ways of the Forgotten Quarter (Locked with 7)

Individual storylets

• Night Watch at the Brass Embassy Warehouse
• Scrutinise Infernal Contracts
• Industrial Espionage!
• Track down a Spirifer
• Spy on a Tomb-Colonist (Locked with 5)
• Search for a Missing Rubbery Man (Locked with 5)
• Track Down and Silence an Anarchist (Locked with 5)
• Lay Out a False Trail for a Spy (Locked with 5)

Level 5

Stories

• A case for a Reliable (also available from First case for Mr Pages)

Other major content

• Begin an Expedition in the Forgotten Quarter

Cards

• Lies Below the Palace (Locked with 7)
• The Ways of the University (Locked with 7)

Individual storylets

• Consulting detective required
• A tour of the quarter
• Understanding the Correspondence (Locked with 7)

Branches

• Expeditions in the Forgotten Quarter

Level 6

Stories

• Engaged in a Rivalry of Antiquities
• Another Case for a Reliable

Branches

• The University 1 (Locked with 7)

A Name Signed with a Flourish

Main Progress

Progress A Name Signed with a Flourish by completing the objectives for that level. Doing so will trigger an autofire storylet, listed below the objective, with several character-building alternatives.

The rewards that are common for all options are listed under the objective and include a substantial gain of Persuasive. Each option will also give a 5 CP swing of some quirks (up to level 15), completely wipe one menace and may have other effects such as setting your Identified with a School: or gaining Renown and Favours.

Level	Objective	Branch	Quirks	Cure	Other
1	Commission: Praising Fungus in Verse A New Star in the Neath (+100 CP), 10 x  Drop of Prisoner's Honey	Gracious in literary triumph	+ -		-
		Celebrate thoroughly	+ -		-
		Whispers of inspiration	+ -		-
		Outshine them all	+ -		-
2	Making Your Name: Pursue in a Notable Relationship Honey-Sipping Heiress Honey-Sipping Jewel-Thief A Storied Life (+150 CP)	A lamentation in the style of the Celestials	+ -		Identified with a School: 3
		Revel in a sordid story, as is the Nocturnal fashion	+ -		Identified with a School: 1
		Expose him to the enigmatic beauties celebrated by the Bazaarines	+ -		Identified with a School: 2
		Help him find his own voice	+ -		Identified with a School: 100
		A natural philosophy	FATE
3	Making Your Name: Writing a Short Story Sought by London's Finest (+225 CP)	Dream with the Bohemians	+ -		Renown: Bohemians (+3 CP) 3 x  Favours: Bohemians
		Dine with Society	+ -		Renown: Society (+3 CP) 3 x  Favours: Society
		Play with the Spies of the Great Game	+ -		Renown: The Great Game (+3 CP) 3 x  Favours: The Great Game
		Enjoy a meal alone	+ -		Persuasive (+50 CP)
4	Make Your Name: Getting to the Ball A Royal Invitation (+350 CP) Route:  the Shuttered Palace A Posy of the Neath's Finest Flowers	With unmitigated joy	+ -		-
		With proud decorum	+ -		-
		With veiled scorn	+ -		-
5	Make Your Name: An Audience with the Duchess A tête-à-tête with the Duchess (+400 CP) Route:  The Empress' Court	The quiet memory of Above	+ -		Identified with a School: 3
		The rapturous freedoms of the Neath	+ -		Identified with a School: 1
		The intrigues of the Bazaar	+ -		Identified with a School: 2
		Your own flourishing aptitude	+ -		Identified with a School: 100
		The fecund imagination of nature	FATE
6	Making Your Name: Engage in a Courtly Romance! Seen with a Barbed Wit Seen with an Acclaimed Beauty The Stuff of Song (+400 CP)	Reclaim your love	+ -		-
		Provide a very personal lesson	+ -		-
		Enforce a respect for matters of love	+ -		-
		Let them alone	+ -		-
7	Carving out a Reputation at Court The Centre of Curiosity (+450 CP)	Share your triumph	+ -		-
		Engage them with a different tune	+ -		-
		Leave it to the imagination	+ -		-
		Act as a mirror	+ -		-

Other Progress

In addition to stories available as part of the main progression, A Name Signed with a Flourish unlocks a large number of other stories and content. Note that some of these are only available for a few levels and will become unavailable once you progress too far.

Level 0

Stories

• Commission: Immortalise Jack-of-Smiles in Another Penny Dreadful! (Locked with 3)

Cards

• A stranded urchin (Locked with 3)
• Avenge a Struggling Artist's broken heart (Locked with 3)
• A Polite Deacon needs discreet work (Locked with 3)

Individual storylets

• Make Your Name! 3 (Locked with 4)
• A Name Known to Many (Patch)

Level 1

Stories

• Commission: Write about Prisoner's Honey (Locked with 3)

Cards

• The Salvation of a Rubbery Man (Locked with 3)
• Mixing with the Toffs (Locked with 3)
• Entertaining the masses (Locked with 3)
• A Dubious Favour (Locked with 5)

Individual storylets

• The Honey-Dens of Veilgarden
• Deepen your Acquaintance with Prisoner's Honey (Locked with 2)
• Chat with the Duchess' Private Secretary (Locked with 3)
• Play Decoy for a Street Magician (Locked with 3)

Level 2

Stories

• Inconvenienced by Your Aunt
• Venture: Uncover hidden tattoos

Other major content

• Dabble in the Great Game
• The Writer's Desk: Begin a Work

Cards

• Moving in Rarefied Circles (Locked with 4)
• Debate with a Philosopher at the Square of Lofty Words (Locked with 4)
• Ghostwrite a Tongue-tied Lover's Poetry (Locked with 4)
• Win your Way into a Dying Widow's Will (Locked with 4)
• Journal Requires Original Poetry for Publication (Locked with 4)
• Trouble at Home (Locked with 4)
• Her Barbed Tongue (Locked with 4)

Level 3

Stories

• Intrigue: The Curate and His Sister (Locked with 4)

Other major content

• A Flash Lay: a New Scheme

Cards

• After Dinner Speaking (Locked with 5)
• Time for a little Relaxation (Locked with 5)
• Bricks and Knives (Locked with 5)
• An Invitation to High Table! (Locked with 5)
• Our Forthright Reporter (Locked with 5)
• The Ways of the Shuttered Palace (Locked with 5)
• Address the University (Locked with 6)
• Dealing with the Colonel (Locked with 6)
• Cards with the Civil Service (Locked with 6)

Individual storylets

• Charm an influential young rake
• Charm an influential social butterfly
• Entering Society (Locked with 4)
• The Seamstress' Favour (Locked with 4)
• Are You in the Book? (Locked with 4)
• Not Quite Archaeology (Locked with 4)
• Rescue Banned Books (Locked with 4)
• Assist a Dilettante Poet in writing lurid poetry (Locked with 4)
• Arrange a secret reading of banned poetry (Locked with 4)

Level 4

Stories

• Commission: A Royal Portrait (Locked with 6)
• Occasionally Seen at Mr Wines' Revels (Locked with 7)

Individual storylets

• Entry to the Duchess' Salon
• An Evening at the Duchess' Salon
• Recalling Past Indiscretions
• A gentleman to remember (Locked with 5)
• A lady to remember (Locked with 6)
• A strange mirror (Locked with 6)
• Start a New Fashion! (Locked with 7)
• The Rival (Locked with 7)
• Try a Little Advanced Name-Dropping (Locked with 7)
• Green Fingers (Locked with 7)
• The Antiquarian Footman (Locked with 7)
• Become a Trader in Antiques (Locked with 7)
• Start a Chemist's Business (Locked with 7)

Branches

• Off to the Shuttered Palace

Level 5

Stories

• Carving out a Reputation at Court (Locked with 7)

Other major content

• The Empress' Court (via Spend a few days at Court) (Locked with 7)

Branches

• Into the Empress' Court

Level 6

Individual storylets

• Someone else's scandal
• Tea at Court (Locked with 7)