Watchful

ID: 209

Observation, intelligence, deduction.

Watchful improves as you attempt Watchful tasks - you can improve it faster by spending Sudden Insights at your Lodgings.

Wiki note: This is your observational ability, allowing you to learn numerous secrets of Fallen London. This is one of the four main Attributes.

• Click here for a list of Actions that raise this quality.
• Click here for a list of Actions that lower this quality.

See here for a list of all pages which use or require this quality, or click here to show them.

See here for a list of pages which have a challenge based on this quality, or click here to show them.

See Watchful Items for items that modify this quality.
See Watchful-reducing Items for items that reduce this quality.

The cap on this quality is raised by Watchful Gains. It is impossible to raise this quality beyond the cap of 230 under any circumstance. Excess from actions raising the quality is wasted after hitting the cap!

For a guide to increasing Watchful and the other main attributes, see Leveling (Guide).

Watchful

Bonus	Permanent Loss	Failures	2nd chance
Items	Actions	Nightmares	Sudden Insight

Levels

Quality	Title
0 - 2	(none)
3 - 9	Watchful
10 - 14	Keen-eyed
15 - 19	Perceptive
20 - 39	Observant
40 - 59	Shrewd
60 - 79	Insightful
80 - 99	Sagacious
100 - 149	Inescapable
150 - 199	A Focused Brilliance
200+	Extraordinary

Known as Adjectives

Quality	Title
0 - 16?	Watchful
23? - 47?	Keen-Eyed
74? - 74?	Perceptive
80? - 80?	Observant
124? - 133?	Shrewd
143? - 164?	Insightful
177? - 199	Sagacious
200 - 229	Inescapable
230	Unblinking

Related Locations

Quality	Location	Also Needed
1 - 70	Ladybones Road
60+	The Forgotten Quarter
80 - 110	The University
110 - 120	Wilmot's End	Persuasive Shadowy
120 - 130	Corpsecage Island
120 - 130	Bullbone Island
120 - 130	Grunting Fen
120 - 130	Hunter's Keep	Persuasive
200+	University Laboratory	Persuasive
200+	Upper River

Highest Challenges

Actions with a Broad difficulty level of 250 or above.

• 250: Lure the (enemies) with false fruit (Parabolan War)
• 250: Deploy Counter-Factual Phantasies (Parabolan War)
• 250: Grow mounts to speed your passage (Parabolan War)
• 250: Petition Long-Dead Cats (Parabolan War)
• 250: Dream your way past the (enemies) (Parabolan War)
• 250: Summon a Terror-Bird (Parabolan War)
• 250: Study your Gilded Crustacean (University Laboratory)
• 250: Consider the Magistracy with new eyes (The Magistracy of the Evenlode)
• 250: Watch a civil trial (The Magistracy of the Evenlode)
• 250: Watch a criminal trial (The Magistracy of the Evenlode)
• 250: Look into the water 0 (Cave of the Nadir)
• 250: Obtain between one and seven Searing Enigmas (University)
• 250: Head uphill (from Lead a Dig)
• 255: A silent inclination of the skull (a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river)
• 275: Listen to the compositions 2 (Helicon House)
• 275+: Study the evidence (The Magistracy of the Evenlode)
• 280: Dig a little distance from the river (from Dredge the river)
• 300: Listen to the compositions (Helicon House)
• 300: Admire the work of the Nocturnal Landscape Painter or Admire the work of a fellow Nocturnal artist (Helicon House)
• 300: Study the Portrait of the Tentacled Entrepreneur or Study the Portrait of the Tentacled Entrepreneur 2 (Helicon House)
• 300: Study the Portrait of the Tentacled Entrepreneur as a work of Bazaarine art (Helicon House)
• 300: Study the trellises (from Fruitful Symmetry)
• 300: Become a Correspondent (from An unsigned message)
• 300: Use the Goat's... unique talents (from All fear the Overgoat!)
• 300: Your move... (a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river)
• 400: Make a study of the local smuggling rings (from Engage in Some Minor Smuggling)
• 500: Locate an Impossible Theorem (University)
• 500: Reach a realisation. Drag the knowledge kicking and screaming out of Parabola (University Laboratory)
• 2000-8000: So hungry (Hallowmas, SMEN)