Ambition: Heart's Desire!
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Progress in looking for a notorious card game in which you can stake your soul and win your heart's desire.
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Unlocked with
- Heart's Desire: Scrawled Notes on the Walls
- Ambition: Heart's Desire - The Bishop of St Fiacre's
- Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King
- Ambition: A Marvellous Deck
- Ambition: A Marvellous Venue
- Gregory Beechwood
Ambition: Heart's Desire
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 0
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 1
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 2 and Ambition: Heart's Desire! 2b
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 3 and Ambition: Heart's Desire! 3b
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 4
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 5
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 6
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 7
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 8
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 9
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 10
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 11
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! 12 (Continues in Ambition: Heart's Desire - The Bishop of St Fiacre's)
The Bishop of St Fiacre's
- Ambition: Heart's Desire (The Bishop of St Fiacre's 1)
- Ambition: Heart's Desire (The Bishop of St Fiacre's 2)
- Ambition: Heart's Desire (The Bishop of St Fiacre's 3)
- Ambition: Heart's Desire (The Bishop of St Fiacre's 4) and Speak to the manager about... (Continues in Ambition: Heart's Desire! (The Flit) or Heart's Desire – the Topsy King)
The Topsy King
- Ambition: Heart's Desire! (The Flit) and Heart's Desire – the Topsy King
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 1
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 2
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 3 (and the Spy on the Raggedy Men 3 branch of A fine day in the Flit)
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 4
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 5
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 6
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 7
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 8
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 9
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King 10
- Heart's Desire – will she be back?
- Without 'Inciting a Simian Revenge?': Heart's Desire – simian approbation
With 'Inciting a Simian Revenge?': Heart's Desire – a long-delayed conversation - Heart's Desire – a simian revenge
- Heart's Desire – the Topsy King's Sister
- Heart's Desire – Desperate Intentions
- Heart's Desire – Double or Nothing
- Approach the Merry Gentleman
- Heart's Desire – The Man with the Brass Buttons
- Heart's Desire – the Price of Desire
- Heart's Desire – Back to the Bale
- Heart's Desire – Tapping the Baton OR Tristram Bagley's unfinished masterpiece
- Heart's Desire – A Night at the Opera
- Heart's Desire – The Morning After
- Heart's Desire – Back to the Manager (Continues in Ambition: Heart's Desire 13)
Convincing the Other Players
- Heart's Desire – Seeking the Manager's Beloved
- Heart's Desire – Gaining an Audience
- Heart's Desire – Meeting the King
- Heart's Desire – Walking in the Garden
- Heart's Desire – The End of Memory
- - 110. Ambition: Heart's Desire – the King's Heart
- - 105. Ambition: Heart's Desire – Completing the King
- - 160. Ambition: Heart's Desire – Virginia
- Ambition: Heart's Desire – the Prince's Prison
- - 200. Ambition: Heart's Desire – Mr Pages
- Ambition Heart's Desire: A Marvellous Conversation with Mr Pages
A Marvellous Venue
- Discuss the venue: Ask Mr. Pages
- Ambition: Meet with the Topsy King: Ask the Topsy King
- Ambition: Meet Virginia at Dante’s Grill: Ask Virginia
- Ambition: Meet with the Manager of the Royal Bethlehem: Ask the Manager of the Hotel
- Ambition: Meet with the Monkey: Ask the Monkey
- Ambition: Meet the Bishop of St Fiacre's: Ask the Bishop of St. Fiacre's Church
- Ambition: Choosing the Venue
A Marvellous Deck
- - 14. Ambition: Storridges Printing House
- - 20. Ambition: Enter Parabola
- - 20. Ambition: Prepare to Travel the Wanting Way
- The Writhing River
- The Other Base-Camp
- The Musings of the Heart
- Down the Gullet
- The Root of Need
- - 80. The Yearning Custodian
- The River Runs Backwards
Learning about the Previous Winners
- Ambition: Preparing for the Honour
- Piece your clues together (to locate October)
- Ambition: Finding October
- Piece your clues together (to locate Gregory Beechwood)
- Ambition: A Visit to All Christs (starts a side story about Gregory Beechwood)
- Piece your clues together (to locate His Amused Lordship)
- Search for His Amused Lordship
- Heart's Desire: Speak to His Amused Lordship, option under the The Seekers of the Garden card
Side Story: Gregory Beechwood
- Ambition: The Beechwood Archive
- Gregory Beechwood (stage 310 of Ambition, after the Honour)
- Ambition: 'Moral Selection'
The Honour
- Heart's Desire: Attend the Honour (after going to Arbor's Temple district)
- Ambition: Opening Hands
- The Honour: the Late-Game
- Ambition: The Victors
Interlude: The Monkey & Virginia
Your Assigned Opponent
Interlude 2: The Monkey & Virginia
Stage | The Topsy King (continued) | The Bishop (continued) |
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410 | Ambition: The First Round | Ambition: The First Round |
420 | Ambition: Against the Topsy King | Ambition: Against the Bishop |
After, you have to wait 24 real-time hours for the outcome of the match between the Manager and whoever he was matched with. Then, this message (Waiting for the Next Bout) appears in your inbox.
Interlude 3: Outcome of Other Match
Stage | Defeated Topsy King | Defeated the Bishop |
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475 | Ambition: Learn the Outcome of the Latest Match (after Topsy King) | Ambition: Learn the Outcome of the Latest Match (after Bishop) |
(Depending on your first round opponent) 475 - Ambition: A Prodigious Thump
The Manager of the Hotel
- Wait upon Mr Pages' decision
- Consider the Manager and Heart's Desire: Further Winners
- Ambition: Addressing Some Confusion
- Ambition: Preparing to Face the Manager of the Royal Bethlehem
- Heart's Desire: an Incursion of Red and Gold: A very unpleasant card that gives you Nightmares and lose a lot of Nevercold Brass; the solution to this is an action under the same card.
- Ambition: Arm Yourself Against the Garden of Nightmares
- Ambition: Face the Manager of the Royal Beth
- Ambition: The Garden of Nightmares
- Ambition: The Manager's Chance
- Ambition: Leaving the Garden of Nightmares
Interlude 4: Mr Pages Meddling
- Ambition: A Further Interruption
- Ambition: A Master's Wrath
- Ambition: Your Monkey is ready to play Mr Pages
- -639 Ambition: Gather Your Thoughts
- -660 Ambition: an Esteemed Visitor
- Ambition: Preparing for the Final Match
- Train with other players (you need 3)
- The requirements of each training are listed here
- Note that Mr Page's training also give out the unique , so might be worth taking
Here would be a good moment, just before the final game, to visit the Boatman, to collect the final advice and unique item , if you want it.
- Get a .
- Gaze into Heart's Mirror is the most straightforward and does not consume Horsehead Amulet if you have any.
- Get your to 8, you can use Call in a favour from Virginia to help move you to a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river.
- While "dead", talk to the Boatman
- With all advices in hand, Assemble a Compendium of the Heart's Desires
The Final Match
- Ambition: in the Heart of the Bazaar
- Opening Plays: Power
- Developing Play: Love
- The Game Matures: Time
- The Endgame: Escape
- Ambition: Your Last Chance
- Beechwood's Chance
- Ambition: Your Defeat
Winning path
- Mr Hearts' Congratulations
- - 805. Ambition: The Conjunction of Gifts
- - 1400. Ambition: Cora Bagley, Again
Losing path
- An Invitation From Mister Hearts
- - 1903. Ambition: Beechwood's Heart's Desire
- Ambition: An Encounter with Cora Bagley
Aftermath
- - 21400. You have finished seeking your heart's desire