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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The Case of the Starving Poet (Continued)

•  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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Discuss a minor case

•  Spoiler ID: 236030
  

  Unlocked with Acquaintance: the Starving Poet, Evidence in the Case of the Absconding Devil 3
  

   

  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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Seasonal options:

Present him with the Case of the Contents of the Sixth Coil (Estival 2024)

•  Spoiler ID: 267211
  

  Unlocked with The Coilheart Games is present (World Quality, now locked), Of Stripes, and Coils 20-299
  Locked with Lead: The Honey-Addled Detective
  

   

  Success

  Gnomic

  •  The Detective dreams and half-dreams of fangs, stripes and jungles. (Raises Lead: The Honey-Addled Detective by 1)
  •  Huffam will want to hear of this. And then double-check it scrupulously. (Raises Bearing Valuable Leads by 1)

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