Working with the Honey-Addled Detective

ID: 56581

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He was a great mind once. Now he haunts his cavernous rooms on Moloch Street, half out of his mind on prisoner's honey. He still take clients, but he passes the work on to promising outsiders. Lucky for you.

Unlocked with Acquaintance: the Honey-Addled Detective, A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets 2

Storylet appears in Moloch Street

Options:

Abandon your current Case

•  Spoiler ID: 29977
  

  Unlocked with Engaged in a Case:
  

   

  Success

  Enough for now

  Redirects to: The case is closed...

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Continue your current case

•  Spoiler ID: 169073
  

  Action Cost: 0
  Unlocked with Engaged in a Case:
  

   

  Redirects to:

  → Pursue Your Current Case

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The Case of the Starving Poet

•  Spoiler ID: 29970
  

  Unlocked with Engaged in a Case: No Current Case
  Locked with Acquaintance: the Starving Poet 1
  

   

  Success

  Salvation or damnation

  •  You are now pursuing the Case of the Starving Poet. (Sets Engaged in a Case: to 1 - the Starving Poet)
  •  You've gained 1 x Detective's Progress
  •  A complication! revolutionaries may be involved. You can resolve this by finding the right card in the Opportunities deck. (Sets Complication: a Revolutionary Connection to 2)
  •  You now have 5 x Case Difficulty

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Making Your Name: The Case of the Absconding Devil

•  Spoiler ID: 29974
  

  Unlocked with Engaged in a Case: No Current Case
  Locked with Evidence in the Case of the Absconding Devil 6
  

   

  Success

  Following the trail

  Success Instructions: Increase your Detective's Progress to 12.
  

  •  You are now pursuing the Case of the Absconding Devil. (Sets Engaged in a Case: to 3 - the Absconding Devil)
  •  You've gained 1 x Detective's Progress
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Complication: a Surly Goat-Demon' Quality is now 3 - Obstreperous!
  •  You have a piece of evidence. (Five pieces will unlock the ending.) (Sets Evidence in the Case of the Absconding Devil to 1)
  •  An occurrence! Your 'Case Difficulty' Quality is now 6!
  • [The Airs of London change…] (random)

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The Case of the Starving Poet (Unlocked with Engaged in a Case: the Starving Poet)

•  Spoiler ID: 31982
  

  Unlocked with Engaged in a Case: the Starving Poet
  

   

  Success

  A shrug of the splendidly tailored shoulders

  Success Instructions: Use the 'Pursue your current Case' storylet; or find suitable Opportunity cards to talk to your contacts. Resolving Complication cards may unlock an additional ending.
  

  •  You've gained 1 x Detective's Progress
  •  You've gained 2 x Whispered Hint

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The Case of the Absconding Devil (Unlocked with Engaged in a Case: the Absconding Devil)

•  Spoiler ID: 31981
  

  Unlocked with Engaged in a Case: the Absconding Devil
  

   

  Success

  A languid warning

  Success Instructions: Use the Pursue your current Case storylet; or find suitable Opportunity cards to talk to your contacts. You'll need to collect five pieces of evidence. Beware Complications.
  

  •  You've gained 2 x Whispered Hint
  •  You've gained 1 x Detective's Progress

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Discuss a minor case (Unlocked with Acquaintance: the Starving Poet, Evidence in the Case of the Absconding Devil 6)

•  Spoiler ID: 236030
  

  Unlocked with Acquaintance: the Starving Poet, Evidence in the Case of the Absconding Devil 6
  

   

  Success

  A neat bow

  •  You've gained 5 x Inkling of Identity

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A Small Favour (35 FATE)

•  Spoiler ID: 244994
  

  Action Cost: 0
  Locked with The Ceremony
  

   

  Success

  No reward narrative information available for Fate-locked actions.

  •  An occurrence! Your 'The Ceremony (quality)' Quality is now (?)!

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