User:Yestarhumeler/Fate Stories

An auto-generated list of regular Fate stories and their rewards.

Fate Stories

A Dream of a Thousand Tails (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  You dream that a story lives in your walls. It has got its teeth into your pantry. It tells itself in little leavings by the skirting board. You hear it when you're in bed, in the dark, scampering towards an ending.

  The story has whiskers, and it goes like this: 'There is a king little bigger than a finger, who sits in a garden beyond the edge of telling. The king ties itself in knots, and feasts upon stories like a rat upon cheese...'

  Starting points: Fate page, One Should Not Play With One's Food.

  Overview:

  • Unlocks The Whisker-Ways (Guide), home to a story-crafting activity and other small storylets.
  • A Mind Ouroboros
  • Depending on your choices you will gain one of three Companions providing +1 Glasswork and +1 Mithridacy:
    • Piebald Chronicler
    • Piebald Historian
    • Piebald Mythographer

  Unique options with:

  • Sympathetic about Ratly Concerns
  • Parabolan Commander and Parabolan Cultivator
  • Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary

  
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A Functionary's Confidant (15 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  This will allow you to visit the Functionary at his home, and delve into the secrets of his past and work. These stories have a conversational focus. They cost no actions to play and have no material rewards.

  Author: Emily Short.

  Starting points: Fate page, Visit the Wry Functionary (15 FATE).

  Overview:

  • Assisting in an Audit
  • Acquainted with the Functionary's Past

  Unique options with:

  • Espoused to
  • Engaged to
  • Master Jewel Thief
  • Celebrated Artist's Model
  • Academic Intriguer
  • Comfortable Intriguer
  • Devout Intriguer
  • Cultured Attaché
  • Cultured Attachée
  • Boneless Consort
  • Companion in Amber
  • Profession:
  • Featuring in the Tales of the University < 21
  • A Scholar of the Correspondence 5 (versions with and without Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 5)
  • Renown: Criminals 15
  • Renown: Urchins 15
  • Renown: The Docks 15
  • Renown: Revolutionaries 15
  • An Explorer of the Unterzee -
  • Connected: Benthic 10
  • Acquaintance: the Repentant Forger
  • Subtle 8
  • Magnanimous 8
  • Melancholy 8

  
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A Long-Lost Daughter? (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Your own daughter? Is it possible? [This is a story of a dozen unique storylets suitable for players with main Qualities around 30 and up.]

  Starting points: Fate page, Could you really have a long-lost daughter? (25 FATE), Could you have a long-lost daughter? (25 FATE).

  Overview:

  • An option for A Gift from the Capering Relicker: A present for your daughter. Gain of 22 x Compromising Document.
  • A Daughter in the Shadows: a Companion providing a +5 Shadowy, +2 Persuasive bonus.
    • Unlocks an option in the Cave of the Nadir card Old Bones: Examine the site. Playing it gives +1 CP Dramatic Tension, 1 x Irrigo, +5 CP Melancholy and 1.7 worth of items.
    • Unlocks an option in Coffee with the Last Constable: Tell her your own story. Grants 1 x Favours: Constables, 1 x Extraordinary Implication, -1 CP Nightmares.
    • Unlocks an option in St Cerise's Candle SMEN.

  
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A Trade in Faces (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  A story of fluid identity and London's forgotten corners. Uncover the mysteries of the Face-Tailor! It is suitable for characters with some skills at 50 or above.

  Author: Chris Gardiner.

  Starting points: Fate page, Begin 'A Trade in Faces' – a substantial story, Begin 'A Trade in Faces' – a substantial story (25 FATE).

  Overview:

  • An option in Court and Cell: the Constables giving -3 CP Scandal.
  • An option in The Alleys of London: the Criminals giving -3 CP Suspicion.
  • An option in Whispers from the Surface: The Great Game giving -3 CP Suspicion.
  • An option in Park and Palace: Society giving -3 CP Suspicion.
  • An option in The Curt Relicker and Montgomery are Moving Quietly Past giving 1-4 x Certifiable Scraps and -3 CP Suspicion.

  Unique option with:

  • Uncovering the Secrets of the Face-Tailor 5

  
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A Trade in Souls (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Delve into the wicked toils of the soul trade! [Those with Shadowy 20 or more can unlock a dozen unique storylets in this story.]

  Starting points: Fate page, The Soul Trade (25 FATE), Begin 'A Trade in Souls' – a substantial story (25 FATE).

  Overview:

  • An option in A Gift from the Capering Relicker: A dealer in souls.
  • A new Unusual Frequency card (locked with A Remote Address or Your very own Infernal Contract) with 6 options:
    • Without PoSI - gain 1000 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 1 x Favours: Hell, 1 x Your very own Infernal Contract, +5 CP Hedonist (up to level 15).
    • Alternatively, a Persuasive 100 challenge - gain 1500 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 1 x Your very own Infernal Contract on success. No effects on failure.
    • With PoSI - gain 1 x Fabulous Diamond, 3 x Favours: Hell, 1 x Your very own Infernal Contract, +5 CP Hedonist (up to level 15).
    • Without a Stain - gain +3 CP Austere (up to level 10), lose -3 CP Subtle, 1 x Favours: Hell.
    • With a Stain - lose 1 x Favours: Hell.
    • With an Enhancement - lose -1 CP In Possession of a Peculiar Personal Enhancement -, gain 5 x Appalling Secret.

  • Being a Shepherd, you get:
    • Shepherd's Timepiece: a Weapon providing a +2 Shadowy bonus;
    • A Standard Frequency card with the following options:
      • Trade 50 x Soul for 0-1 x Favours: Constables, 0-1 x Favours: The Church, 0-1 x Favours: Society.
      • Trade 5 x Infernal Contract for 0-1 x Favours: Constables, 0-1 x Favours: The Church, 0-1 x Favours: Society.
      • Trade 50 x Soul and 5 x Infernal Contract for 1 x Favours: Constables, 1 x Favours: The Church, 1 x Favours: Society, +5 CP Magnanimous (up to 15).
      • Trade 1000 x Soul and 100 x Infernal Contract for complete menace reset, +5 CP Making Waves, +5 CP Magnanimous (up to 15), 10 x Adrift on a Sea of Misery: and 1-2 of one of the following:
        • Favours: Constables;
        • Favours: The Church;
        • Favours: Society;
    • An option in The Tower of Sleeping Giants: The Secrets of the Rooms above a Bookshop: The owner. Playing it gives 2 x Infernal Contract.
  • Being a Spirifer, you get:
    • Spirifer's Fork: a Weapon providing a +2 Shadowy bonus;
    • New options in Ladybones Road
      • Trade 100 x Soul for 300 x Nevercold Brass Sliver and +1 CP Heartless. 20% chance to also gain +2 CP Suspicion.
      • Trade 1000 x Soul for 3000 x Nevercold Brass Sliver, 4 x Appalling Secret, and +5 CP Heartless. 10% chance to also gain +3 CP Suspicion.
      • Trade 1000 x Soul for 45 x Brilliant Soul.
      • Heartless gains are capped at 15, and do not reduce any other quirk.
    • An option in The Tower of Sun and Moon: Harvesting the hotel.
    • An Unusual Frequency card that also requires Seeking Mr Eaten's Name 1-5 and 1 x Starveling Cat with 1 option:
      • Succeed a Seeking Mr Eaten's Name challenge (70% at 5) for 1 x Extraordinary Implication and 2 x Appalling Secrets, fail for +1 CP Wounds.

  
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Caught Up in a Soldier's Heartbreaking Tale

•  Spoiler 

  A story of lost battles and lost love

  Starting point: Fate page.

  Overview:

  • Campaign Medal
  • Silver Horse Talisman

  Unique ending options with:

  • Spirifer's Fork
  • Shepherd's Timepiece

  Choosing the ending that does not require either will reset the story's tracking quality to zero, allowing it to be replayed.

  
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Flute Street (10 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  35 storylets and opportunities about the mysteries far below the Neath. What are the Rubbery Men up to down there? What else lurks in the darkness?

  Author: Nigel Evans.

  Starting points: Fate page, The key to Flute Street (10 FATE).

  Overview:

  Also see Flute Street (Guide).

  • Flute Street access. Entering it costs 10 actions, exiting costs 5.
  • A source of Favours: Rubbery Men, Rubbery Skull, Helical Thighbone.
  • Location of an Underground Organ: a Weapon providing a +10 Persuasive, +1 Bizarre bonus. It is the 40 Renown: Rubbery Men item. Can be used for free entry to Helicon House.
  • Rubbery Hound: a Companion providing a +2 Watchful bonus. It costs 100 x Foxfire Candle Stub. Unlocks an option in Helicon House: Slip a few snacks to your Rubbery Hound. See also Breeding Monsters (Guide).
  • For additional 100 FATE, you can acquire In Possession of a Peculiar Personal Enhancement -.
    • It unlocks an option on the Rubbery faction card: Consent to a potentially depraved union. Playing it results in a Boneless Consort: a Spouse providing a +3 Bizarre bonus. Can be used to enter Helicon House: Your Boneless Consort. Adds an opportunity card with the following options:
      • +2 CP Watchful;
      • +2 CP Shadowy;
      • +3 CP Making Waves, +1 x Nodule of Warm Amber, Scandal is set to 8;
      • Convert 1000 x Nodule of Deep Amber into 1 x Nodule of Trembling Amber.
    • The spouse can be upgraded into a Companion in Amber: a Spouse providing a +3 Bizarre, +1 Shapeling Arts bonus. Can be used to enter Helicon House. Adds an opportunity card with the following options:
      • +2 CP Watchful;
      • +2 CP Shadowy;
      • +3 CP Making Waves, +1 x Nodule of Warm Amber, Scandal is set to 8;
      • Convert 500 x Nodule of Deep Amber into 1 x Nodule of Trembling Amber;
      • +1? CP Shapeling Arts.
  • For additional 10 FATE, you can remove 1 x Weeping Scar.
  • With Theological Husbandry, unlocks the process of acquiring two Companions: Ocular Toadbeast (+6 Shadowy) and Bifurcated Owl (+5 Watchful, +5 Persuasive, +5 Shadowy, +5 Dangerous, +2 Dreaded, +2 Bizarre). For details, see Breeding Monsters (Guide).
  • During The Horticultural Show, you can obtain Knowledge: Originator Arts.

  Unique option with:

  • Your very own Infernal Contract

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Inconvenienced by Your Aunt (15 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Your aunt returned to the surface some time ago, hounded by scandal and devils. She has written you a letter. It seems she has a marvellous business idea, and seeks your help.

  Starting points: Fate page, In for a penny... (15 FATE), D__n them! You're going to rescue her! (15 FATE).

  Overview:

  The storyline is progressed through Standard Frequency cards. At the end, you must decide on a profession for your aunt, which determines your primary reward.

  • One of three Standard Frequency cards with a 30% Luck challenge that refreshes 10 actions on success. The cost and failure results are different for each ending. Items are only consumed upon failure. All three cards are locked if the player has Woeful:
    • Costs 50 x Primordial Shriek. Failure gives 1 x Favours: Constables, 2 x Tale of Terror, 7 x Appalling Secret, +2 CP Wounds, -4 CP Suspicion, and +3 CP Making Waves. Ending requires Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar.
    • Costs 100 x Shard of Glim. Failure gives 1 x Favours: The Church, 2 x Compromising Document, 5 x Intriguing Snippet, -2 CP Scandal, +3 CP Making Waves. Ending requires Renown: The Church 5.
    • Costs 50 x Bottle of Greyfields 1882. Failure gives 1 x Favours: Society, 3 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip, 5 x Inkling of Identity, -2 CP Scandal, +3 CP Making Waves. Ending requires Renown: Society 5.
  • Unlocks an option in Port Carnelian that randomly gives either 15 x Striped Delights or 15 x Silver Horseheads.
  • Unlocks a card in The City of the Tracklayers that gives an amount of Hinterland Prosperity equal to Hinterland Efficiency + 220 and influences Hinterland City - Recent News.

  Unique options (only in the The Aunt and the Embassy path) with:

  • 10 x Lucky Weasels
  • Shepherd's Timepiece & Renown: The Church 5
  • Spirifer's Fork
  • Master Thief

  You can edit the reward summary on this page.

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Invitation to the Lily-rites (10 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  What would gifts would Hell bring to a city-christening?

  Starting points: Fate page, Invitation to the Lily-rites (10 FATE).

  Overview:

  • Unlocks two toggle-able cards in The City of the Tracklayers.
  • Exchange Hinterland Prosperity for Sap of the Cedar at the Crossroads or 5 Verse of Counter-Creed

  Unique option with:

  • Hinterland City - Founding Body is Furnace Ancona, Your Own Double, or The Double of the Manager of the Royal Beth
  • A Leasehold on All of London
  • The Marvellous
  • Verity of the Savage Lily
  • Ambition: Bag a Legend! 2000
  • Ambition: Nemesis 5000

  
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Learning from a Silk-Clad Expert

•  Spoiler 

  Surely there's no danger. She's only dreamed of the spider council, after all.

  Starting point: Fate page.

  Overview:

  • Unlocks the ability to make a separate purchase of 30 FATE to acquire the Silk-Clad Expert in your Laboratory and on Moulin expeditions. You only need to make this purchase once for her to be available for both.

  
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Mysteries of the Foreign Office (20 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  This story will allow you to uncover the truth about the struggle between Face and Teeth. Certain unusual rewards may also be available.

  Starting points: Fate page, Spies and diplomats and secrets (20 FATE), The secrets of the Foreign Office (20 FATE).

  Overview:

  • Additional options in The Foreign Office. See Working toward a Foreign Posting (Guide).

  At the conclusion, you will choose between the Teeth and the Face and select ONE (1) reward from that side. It is possible to change your reward selection later on.

  • Divorcing a Spouse costs regular items but not Fate. You may then select a replacement reward from the same side.
  • You may exchange your current reward and switch sides to select a new reward for 5 Fate.
  • You may only exchange a Home Comfort reward by paying Fate to switch sides.
  • All Spouses have an Opportunity Card, with various options paying out items worth 5.

  Teeth Rewards:

  • Academic Intriguer: a Spouse providing a +1 Dangerous, +1 Shadowy bonus. Can be used in Helicon House: Your spouse, the Academic Intriguer.
  • Comfortable Intriguer: a Spouse providing a +1 Dangerous, +1 Shadowy bonus. Can be used in Helicon House: Your spouse, the Comfortable Intriguer.
  • Devout Intriguer: a Spouse providing a +1 Dangerous, +1 Shadowy bonus. Can be used in Helicon House: Your spouse, the Devout Intriguer.
  • Collection of Discomfiting Photographs: a Home Comfort providing a +4 Shadowy bonus.

  Face Rewards:

  • Cultured Attaché: a Spouse providing a +1 Persuasive, +1 Watchful bonus. Can be used in Helicon House: Your spouse, Cultured Attaché.
  • Cultured Attachée: a Spouse providing a +1 Persuasive, +1 Watchful bonus. Can be used in Helicon House: Your spouse, the Cultured Attachée.
  • Tapestry from the Elder Continent: a Home Comfort providing a +4 Persuasive bonus.

  Unique options with:

  • HOJOTOHO!
  • Successful Terms as Governor -

  
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Sub-Basement (10 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  There are things the city would rather not face. Some have teeth. Some bear grudges.

  Starting points: Fate page, Sub-Basement (10 FATE).

  Overview:

  • Unlocks two toggle-able cards in The City of the Tracklayers.
  • Exchange Hinterland Prosperity for Sap of the Cedar at the Crossroads or 5 Puzzling Map.
  • Gain Learned the Drownie's Grievance from one of the cards.

  Unique option with:

  • Ferret
  • The Bloodied Travelling-Coat of Mr Cups
  • A Vast Network of Connections Wherever the Bazaar's Influence can be Found
  • The Long-Dead Priests of the Red Bird
  • Newly-Cast Crown of the City of London
  • Hinterland City - Founding Body is Cornelius

  Unique text with:

  • Dream-Shard of the Mirror of Knives
  • Dream-Shadow of a Curator's Vestige
  • Willingness to Spare Some Aspect of the Vake
  • Noticed by the Queen of Air and Darkness

  
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The Blemmigan Affair (30 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Investigate London's recent fungal fad in the Blemmigan Affair! A mischievous story of inappropriate poetry and a perilous expedition into Bugsby's marsh. Especially suited to newcomers, it requires abilities of 10 or more.

  Author: Richard Cobbett.

  Starting points: Fate page, Begin 'The Blemmigan Affair' – a substantial story (30 FATE), Begin 'The Blemmigan Affair' – a substantial story (30 FATE) (The Demi-Monde: Bohemians).

  Overview:

  • Siding with blemmigans allows you to become Identified with a School: The Mycologenes. Following this school, you can present a special ballet in the Court: A Blemmigan work.
    • You also acquire a Blemmigan Hat: a +5 Watchful, +2 Dangerous, -1 Persuasive hat.
  • Depending on your final choice, a new option will be added to one of the following cards:
    • An option for The Demi-Monde: Bohemians. Grants (2 + (0 to Persuasive/10)) x Romantic Notions and ( Persuasive/100) x Memories of Distant Shores, and a 50% chance of 1 x Favours: Bohemians.
    • An option for Court and Cell: the Constables giving 1-2 x Certifiable Scraps and up to ( Watchful/3) x Proscribed Material.
    • An option for By the River's Side: the Docks giving 1 x Sudden Insight, 1 x Hastily Scrawled Warning Note, 1 x Hard-Earned Lesson, 1 x Confident Smile (each capped at 21), and also a ~50% chance of 1 x Favours: The Docks.

  Unique options with:

  • Bottled Oblivion
  • Renown: Bohemians 5
  • Renown: Urchins 5
  • Mask of the Rose

  
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The Brass Grail (35 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  "His Grace wishes to see you. He's in a shocking state since those books came. He's barely wrestled any of the staff in a week and he's off his sherry. I think something terrible has happened." Scandal in London as the Bishop of Southwark is summoned to court. Old sins weigh heavily upon the mitred head. Can one ever truly escape the shadow of Hell?

  Author: Nigel Evans.

  Starting point: Fate page.

  Overview:

  • Cross of Southwark: an Affiliation providing +1 Well known at Southwark Cathedral, +1 Respectable, +2 Dangerous, +2 Persuasive bonus. Equipping this Affiliation adds a Standard Frequency card with two options:
    • 2 x Vision of the Surface, -1 CP Wounds;
    • 1 x Favours: The Church, +2 CP Wounds.
  • A storylet at Mrs Plenty's Carnival giving 5 x Ostentatious Diamond and 100 x Moon-Pearl. Costs 4 actions to play.
  • Depending on your story choices, Masked Former Priest: a Companion providing a +1 Nightmares, +2 Dangerous, +1 Dreaded bonus.
    • To obtain the Masked Former Priest, during the final stage of the story you must accept a bribe, agree to meet the host, and then select the option that references the bribery.

  Unique options with:

  • Renown: The Church 5
  • Renown: Revolutionaries 15
  • A Scholar of the Correspondence

  
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The Ceremony (35 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  A spate of exquisite and unpleasant transformations sweeps London: new Rubbery enhancements of a drastic degree. What lies behind the tentacles? What secrets are hidden within the spiraling bones? Who is the Gilded Sacrifice?

  Author: Cassandra Khaw.

  Starting points: Fate page, Working with the Honey-Addled Detective.

  Overview:

  The item you receive depends on the choice you make near the end.

  • Being helpful nets An Entirely Non-Cult-Related Tea Set: a Home Comfort providing a +1 Respectable, +1 Dreaded bonus.
  • Doing the opposite rewards you with An Opal-Eyed Skeleton: a Home Comfort providing a +1 Bizarre, +1 Dreaded bonus.
  • The explicitly violent choice yields A Clot of Malachite Flesh: a Home Comfort providing a +1 Bizarre, +1 Respectable bonus.

  You can edit the reward summary on this page.

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The Gift (30 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  This will begin a tale of terror, aberration, and the horrors beneath the Palace. It is suitable for characters with some skills at 50 or above.

  Author: Chris Gardiner.

  Starting points: Fate page, Begin 'The Gift' – a substantial story.

  Overview:

  Depending on your final choice, one of the following:

  • The Regard of the Generous Princess: an Affiliation providing a card with two options:
    • Spend 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip for 1 x Favours: Society and +2 CP Making Waves.
    • Receive 4-5 x Intriguing Snippets and 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
  • Held in Esteem by the Crew of the Galatea. Owning this Affiliation (whether equipped or not, like above) adds a card with two options:
    • Spend 50 x Whispered Hint for 1 x Favours: The Docks
    • Receive 1-5 x Map Scraps and 2 x Zee-Ztories or 2 x Memories of Distant Shores

  Unique options with:

  • Hedonist 8
  • A Nocturnal Visitor to the Palace Cellars 3

  You can edit the reward summary on this page.

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The Marriage of Feducci (35 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  It is the first Royal Wedding since London fell: Feducci's proposal of marriage to the Captivating Princess has been accepted! Join the Beleaguered Wedding Planner in the Shuttered Palace to make or break this historic moment.

  Author: Cash DeCuir.

  Starting point: Fate page.

  Overview:

  Your choices in the story will determine which repeatable branch you will unlock.

  • If the event doesn't succeed, you'll be able to obtain 3 x Scraps of Incendiary Gossip per action.
  • Otherwise the storylet in Your Lodgings is a source of 15 x Romantic Notions per action.

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The Mushroom’s Dream (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Something is rotten on the Mangrove College. Once-aimless philosophers have a newfound purpose, and the Mangrove Schools vie for intellectual dominance.

  Delve into the swamp of philosophy and help the Unreconstructed Cynic synthesise his transient philosophies as you both seek the truth that lurks at the heart of the Wisp-Ways.

  Completing The Mushroom's Dream unlocks a unique, persistent activity on the Mangrove College. This story requires use of a ship.

  Author: George Lockett.

  Starting points: Fate page, Follow the Unreconstructed Cynic (25 FATE).

  Overview:

  • Unlocks the Wisp-Ways, home to an activity covered by Philosofruits (Guide).
  • Diogenes
  • A Synthetic Philosopher
  • The Dream of the Hintershroom
  • During The Horticultural Show, you could have obtained Knowledge: A Dream of Dancing Lights.

  Unique text with:

  • A Novel Birth-Mark

  
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The Poisoner's Library (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  A woman wearing the mask of a golden swan haunts the canals of Jericho. She is despised by the Guild of Gondoliers for a past she does not remember. Visited by recurring nightmares of a wedding held in a ruined palace surrounded by poisoned waters, she is seeking answers. Answers only the keeper of a specialised library can provide…

  Author: James Chew.

  Starting points: Fate page, Our Lady of the Canals.

  Overview:

  • The Swan Bride's Mask: a Hat providing +8 Watchful, +1 Dreaded, +1 Kataleptic Toxicology.
  • The Gonfaloniere of Jericho Locks
  • Gonfaloniere of the Guild of Gondoliers
  • Water in the Blood
  • Addressed as: Gonfaloniere
  • Addressed as: Bosun-in-Gold

  Unique options with:

  • Esteem of the Guild (at least 3 for all of them)
  • Discovered: The Sere Palace
  • Favour: Her Roseate Splendour
  • Connected: The Duchess
  • Ambition: Bag a Legend! 50
  • A Night to Remember 150

  
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The Roving Colossus (10 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  A giant of the Unterzee. A relentless stone pilgrim.

  Starting point: Fate page.

  Overview:

  • Unlocks three toggleable cards drawn while Zailing the Unterzee.
  • Play cards to raise Tending the Colossus up to 7.
  • Trade Tending the Colossus 7 for a Primaeval Hint and gain The Gardens of the Unterzee.

  Unique options with:

  • Inerrant 3
  • Unexploded Mine and Zeazoned Zailors
  • Zubmersibility

  
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The Serpent Muralist (10 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  The new city births a fresh school of art, the Cartographical. What's behind the inspiration?

  Starting points: Fate page, The Serpent Muralist (10 FATE).

  Overview:

  • Unlocks two toggle-able cards in The City of the Tracklayers.
  • Exchange Hinterland Prosperity for Sap of the Cedar at the Crossroads or Searing Enigma
  • Unlocks a new Style of a City - Cartographical, if the Founding Body is Your Own Double.
  • Unlocks a new option on Day of Rest that increases Painter of Fine Art.

  Unique option with:

  • Bohemian Sculptress
  • Hinterland City - Founding Body is The Double of the Manager of the Royal Beth
  • Incendiary Tastemaker
  • Notorious Art Dealer
  • Diptych Painter

  Unique text with:

  • Lyon Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary
  • Inspired Emancipationist Propaganda
  • Tatterskin Shawl
  • Sub-Basement
  • Set of Cosmogone Spectacles
  • Connected: Fingerkings
  • Prolific Advertiser

  
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The Spinning of the Wheels (20 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Unlock the secrets of the Velocipede Squad and decide what to do about them. A dozen storylets and opportunities of metropolitan savagery!

  Starting points: Fate page, Out of the public view (20 FATE), A closer look at the Velocipede Squad (20 FATE).

  Overview:

  • Ratwork Velocipede: a Transport providing a +2 Shadowy, +2 Dreaded, +2 Respectable bonus. Adds a Standard Frequency card with two options:
    • 150 x Whispered Hint;
    • 1 x Confident Smile (up to 20), +4 CP Making Waves, +2 CP Persuasive.
  • Additional options in Concord Square with The Spinning of the Wheels < 4:
    • An option in In the Boozer with the Lads that raises Riding the Savage Cobbles by 1 CP.
    • An option in Dealing with a Hard Case that raises Steadfast by 5 CP (up to level 15), decreases Ruthless by 5 CP and Riding the Savage Cobbles by 2 CP.
    • Two options at the conclusion:
      • Convert 500 x Silk Scrap into 6 x An Identity Uncovered!;
      • Gain 1250 x Rostygold.

  Advancing the story will present two possible endings:

  • One will gain 600 CP of Empire's Kingmaker and make Concord Square inaccessible.
  • The other unlocks a storylet with Riding the Savage Cobbles 7 and an option with a Dangerous 130 challenge.
    • Wipes Riding the Savage Cobbles and gains 60 x Relic of the Third City, 40 x Relic of the Second City, 120 x Relic of the Fourth City, +3 CP Forceful (up to level 10) on success, and 20 x Tale of Terror!!, +1 CP Wounds on failure.
    • The same ending also unlocks a Standard Frequency card with two options:
      • Gain 250 x Jade Fragment, +1 CP Nightmares, +1 CP Suspicion;
      • Reduce -2 CP Nightmares.

  
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The Summer Nursery (20 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  "The Summer Schoolmistress towers many feet above you. Her sharp face is expressionless, and her eyes a perfect and total ebony. 'A little gardening. A little science. A little childcare. For an individual of your talents it should be no great difficulty."

  A new Fate activity delves deeper into Whitsun's cascade of adorable horrors: who looks after the Whitsun children after they're hatched?

  Journey to the Prickfinger Wastes and meet a Summer Schoolmistress with an unusual charge. Mind the house while she's away and pit your will against an unruly menagerie of Whitsun's finest.

  Starting point: Fate page.

  Overview:

  • The Regard of the Summer Schoolmistress
  • Access to The Summer Nursery.
  • A source of Venom-Rubies and Emetic Revelations. The cycle takes about 12 actions.

  Unique options in The Summer Nursery during:

  • Whitsun

  
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Theological Husbandry (20 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Unlock the hidden secrets of the Fourth Coil - four new beasts to breed and call your own. And the terrible truth of the Bishop's plans. A dozen storylets and opportunities of bestial savagery and revenge!

  Author: Nigel Evans.

  Starting points: Fate page, Mr Hearts has something for you (20 FATE), The Secrets of Beasts (20 FATE).

  Overview:

  This story provides five new beasts to breed at the Labyrinth of Tigers, with two requiring Flute Street, as well as an ending to the monster-breeding storyline in the Labyrinth of Tigers. The beasts are:

  • The Slavering Dream-Hound, a Companion with +4 Shadowy and +4 Dangerous.
  • The Obdurate Stallion, a Transport with +2 Dreaded.
  • The Corresponding Ocelot, a Companion with +5 Watchful and +5 Persuasive. Can additionally be used while staffing a newspaper.
  • With Flute Street, the Ocular Toadbeast, a Companion with +6 Shadowy.
  • With Flute Street, the Bifurcated Owl, a Companion with +5 to Watchful, Persuasive, Shadowy and Dangerous as well as +2 Dreaded and +2 Bizarre.

  Each of the beasts also comes with a card, the details of which as well as information on breeding can be found at the Breeding Monsters Guide. Additionally, the questline has four endings that increase different qualities by around 600 CP:

  • 1. A unique quality that unlocks a unique destiny, The Instrument. Also the only source of the Why You Fight - quality. Increases A Bringer of Death and Hellfarer.
  • 2. Increases Empire's Kingmaker.
  • 3. A different level of a unique quality that unlocks a second way to get the The Instrument destiny (in The Castle of Forests). Increases Hellfarer. The option requires Renown: Hell 10.
  • 4. Gains Fist of the Bazaar. The option requires Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 2.

  Unique options with:

  • Caught Up in a Soldier's Heartbreaking Tale 8 and Shepherd's Timepiece or Spirifer's Fork
  • Cultivating an Acquaintance with His Amused Lordship 3

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Three Body Problem (10 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  The new city is observed from the east, from the west – and from above.

  Starting points: Fate page, Three Body Problem (10 FATE).

  Overview:

  • Unlocks two toggle-able cards in The City of the Tracklayers.
  • Exchange Hinterland Prosperity for Sap of the Cedar at the Crossroads or 5 Trembling Amber

  Unique options with:

  • Hinterland City - Founding Body is Furnace Ancona, Starved
  • The Abbot-Commander
  • Upwards (Story)
  • A False-Star of your Own
  • A Palatial Holiday Home in the Arctic Circle
  • Society of the Three-Fingered Hand
  • A Winged and Taloned Steed Formerly Mr Veils
  • A Co-Conspirator of Mr Fires

  Unique text with:

  • Amber Ambassador's Seal
  • Free-roving Teeth

  
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Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold (19 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  A storyline of notable menace.

  Author: Emily Short.

  Starting points: Fate page, Ask the Repentant Forger to look it over (19 FATE).

  Overview:

  • A new option on the The Skin of the Bazaar, which allows you to unlock the Passion destiny in A Conversation on the Road.

  Unique options with:

  • Connected: Summerset 20
  • Acquaintance: the Repentant Forger 4
  • An Intimate of Devils 2
  • Renown: Hell 5
  • A Shepherd of Souls
  • A Merchant of Souls
  • Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar
  • Bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing
  • Austere 4

  
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Upwards (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  A Probationary Professor is looking for assistants for a perilous venture. Inspired by the fever for palaeontology and armed with a doctorate on the ritual practices of the Starved Men, she's looking to lead an expedition to the cavern roof.

  Author: James Chew.

  Starting points: Fate page, Palaeontology: Upwards.

  Overview:

  Also see Upwards (Guide).

  • Permanent access to a new location. (See Upwards (Guide))
  • A source of Pentagrammic Skulls and Five-Pointed Ribcages.
  • During The Horticultural Show, you could obtain Knowledge: Common Striving.

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The Empress' Shadow (35 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Teach at Sinning Jenny's Finishing School! Recruit students and train them in important skills, such as deportment and maiming. Then send the class to plunder the secrets of the Empress' Shadow – Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, who is visiting from the surface!

  Author: Emily Short.

  Starting point: Fate page.

  Overview:

  • Disposition of the Empress' Shadow
  • The Shadow in Stockings
  • Access to Sinning Jenny's Finishing School.
  • A source of Favours: Revolutionaries, Favours: Bohemians, Favours: The Church, Favours: Urchins, Favours: The Great Game, Favours: Tomb-Colonies, Favours: The Docks. Note that you have to pass a 50% luck challenge to receive a favour. The cycle takes about 12 actions.
  • Additionally with The Frequently Deceased, a source of Favours: Society. Note that you have to pass a 50% luck challenge to receive a favour. The cycle takes about 12 actions.
  • The same carousel has non-favour resolutions:
    • 1 x Moves in the Great Game, 11 x Dubious Testimony.
    • 1 x Knob of Scintillack, 2 x Sworn Statement, 2 x An Identity Uncovered!.
    • With Held in Esteem by the Crew of the Galatea (The Gift), 1 x Partial Map.
    • With The Regard of the Generous Princess (The Gift), 1 x Ostentatious Diamond, 2-5 x Tale of Terror!!.
    • With Dreams of a Future: Paris, 1908: (Lost in Reflections), 1 x First City Coin, 1 x Relic of the Second City, 1 x Relic of the Third City, 1 x Relic of the Fourth City.
  • A railway board meeting option: Call in a favour with Sinning Jenny. Allows you to pass Sinning Jenny's Persuasive check.
  • An option to get a Dark-Carapaced Crustacean during Whitsun (using Aged Egg, Untreated): a Companion providing a +3 Dangerous, +1 Bizarre bonus. Can be used in lab projects with Ichthyological Focus: Study your Dark-Carapaced Crustacean.
    • As a rare success, you get a Gilded Crustacean: a Companion providing a -1 Watchful, +1 Persuasive, +6 Dangerous bonus. Can be used in lab projects with Ichthyological Focus: Study your Gilded Crustacean.

  Unique options and ending with:

  • Pursuing a Governess 50

  Unique text with:

  • An Encounter with Jenny
  • Bag a Legend 400
  • Dreams of a Future: Paris, 1908:

  Unique cards in Sinning Jenny's Finishing School during:

  • The Feast of the Exceptional Rose
  • Whitsun
  • Fruits of the Zee
  • Hallowmas
  • Christmas

  
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The Rubbery Murders (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  Who has been poisoning deep amber traders? Is there really such a thing as a Rubbery Murderer? [This is a story with a dozen unique storylets suitable for Watchful at least 20.]

  Starting point: Fate page.

  Overview:

  • An option for A Gift from the Capering Relicker: Not making much sense now. Gives 110 x Maniac's Prayer.

  Unique option with:

  • Renown: Rubbery Men 10

  
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