Ambition: Nemesis

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A loved one is dead. Their murderer must be found, wherever they may hide.

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Unlocked with

• Ambition: Nemesis 0

Main Attribute: and

Substories related to the main Ambition

• Ambition: Nemesis - Forgotten Quarter - Mackay stored honey in the Forgotten Quarter.

• Ambition: Nemesis - Shuttered Palace - Many years before, Mackay delivered honey to the Shuttered Palace.

• Tragedy: Death of a Brother - Twenty heartbeats sooner, and you'd have heard his last words.

• Tragedy: Death of a Daughter - You couldn't protect her.

• Tragedy: Death of a Lover - And now you'll never know.

• Tragedy: Death of a Spouse - All those years, gone in a moment.

Progress

First steps

0. Ambition: Nemesis 0
1. Ambition: Nemesis 1
2. Ambition: Nemesis 2
3. Ambition: Nemesis 3 and Ambition: Nemesis 3a
4. Ambition: Nemesis 4 and Ambition: Nemesis 4a
5. Ambition: Nemesis 5
6. Ambition: Nemesis – Finding Mackay
7. Ambition: Nemesis – Reaching Mackay
8. Ambition: Nemesis – interrogating Mackay
9. Ambition: Nemesis – who was it?

The Forgotten Quarter

• Ambition: Nemesis – Forgotten Quarter 0
  • Ambition: Nemesis – Forgotten Quarter 1
  • Ambition: Nemesis – Forgotten Quarter 2
  • Ambition: Nemesis – Forgotten Quarter 3
  • Ambition: Nemesis – last traces
    • Ambition: Nemesis – the Junior Fellow
    • Brewing up gaoler's honey
      • use item Drop of Gaoler's Honey and move to The Chambers of the Heart
  • Ambition: Nemesis – searching the ruins

The Shuttered Palace

• Ambition: Nemesis – the Shuttered Palace 0
  • Ambition: Nemesis – the Shuttered Palace 1
  • Ambition: Nemesis – the Shuttered Palace 2
  • Ambition: Nemesis – Shuttered Palace 3
  • Ambition: Nemesis – Shuttered Palace 4
  • Ambition: Nemesis – the Cage-Garden 1
  • Ambition: Nemesis – the Cage-Garden 2
  • Ambition: Nemesis – the Cage-Garden 3
  • Ambition: Nemesis – the Cage-Garden 4

The Tomb-Colony of Venderbight

11. - 14. Ambition: Nemesis – to Venderbight move to The tomb-colony of Venderbight
    • Raise Ambition to 15 with storylet A woman of sinister repute or with Opportunities in Venderbight
15. Ambition: Nemesis – the Flowstone Forest
16. Ambition: Nemesis – the Grand Sanatorium
17. - 20. Ambition: Nemesis – exploring the Grand Sanatorium
17. Ambition: Nemesis – Carrywell
18. Ambition: Nemesis – the First Interpretation
19. Ambition: Nemesis – what is Carrywell up to?
20. Ambition: Nemesis – the Second Interpretation
21. Ambition: Nemesis – the Third Interpretation
22. Ambition: Nemesis – dealing with the assassin
23. Ambition: Nemesis – confronting Carrywell

Back in London

24. Ambition: Nemesis – learning about the Iron Republic
25. Ambition: Nemesis – Finding the Dreaming Scholar
26. Ambition: Nemesis – Meeting the Dreaming Scholar
27. Ambition: Nemesis – The Dreaming Spires
28. Ambition: Nemesis – A Dream of the Iron Republic
29. Ambition: Nemesis – Keep Dreaming
30. Ambition: Nemesis – The Analysis of Dreams

In the Iron Republic

31. Ambition: Nemesis – Tracking down a murderer
32. Ambition: Nemesis – The Prison
33. Ambition: Nemesis – Yellow Blood Day
34. Ambition: Nemesis – A Little Talk
35. Ambition: Nemesis – Scathewick No More
36. Ambition: Nemesis – A Knife and an Envelope

Back in London

37. Ambition: Nemesis – Seven Murders
38. - 39. Ambition: Nemesis – Scathewick's Accounts
40. Ambition: Nemesis – Narrowing the Field
45. Ambition: Nemesis – Unmasking your Nemesis
60. - 99. Ambition: Nemesis – the Glistering Spires
70. Along the Rice-Paper Corridor
80. Ascend to the Effulgent Galleries
90. The Daybook!

Remembering Lilac

100. Finding Lilac
120. One Month Later
130. - 140. The Missing Month
150. Consulting your Bat
• Storms Far-Away
• Finding Lilac (Port Carnelian)
• A Memory of a River
• A Memory of a Meeting
• What Lilac Said

The Book of Red Murder

160. The Book of Red Murder
• 180. Contact the Sanguine Auctioneer
• 190. Investigate a means of murder
• 190. Search for the mirror-shard

A Cardinal Sin (Midnight's Honey)

• Ambition: Nemesis – Midnight's Honey

Fixing the Mirror

• Fix the broken mirror

Through Parabola

200. Ambition Nemesis – Through a Glass Darkly
220. Ambition Nemesis – A Guardian (2)
230. Ambition Nemesis – The Beggar's Wake
240. Dreamer's End

Finale/Climax: Sanctum of your Nemesis

260. Ambition Nemesis – the Chambers of Mirrors and Cups
280. Ambition Nemesis – The Last Cup
300. Ambition Nemesis – To All Things, An End
320. Ambition Nemesis – Cups Raised

Choices

330. Ambition Nemesis – Sins of the Flesh
340. Ambition Nemesis – A Last Bargain

Aftermath

If you killed your nemesis, then after 24 hours the following Living Story is triggered:

• A Clean Escape? (Sets "Ambition: Nemesis" to 999)

Followed by:

• Ambition: Nemesis – One Last Matter

If you spared your nemesis, then the following Living Story is triggered:

• An Invitation from Mr Cups (Sets "Ambition: Nemesis" to 2000)

This is followed by:

• Ambition Nemesis – Mr Cups Calls
• Ambition Nemesis – A Bath of Cider

A Dream of Chipped Mirrors

This card also appears in your deck and grants an item reward based on what you did to Mr Mirrors in Parabola.

Long-Term Rewards

You get to hire the Esurient Smith.

• Hire in the Esurient Smith: The Esurient Smith is good at any project involving metals. His greater value is his Parabolan-self, which grants the most amount of from Parabolan-selves of research assistants at this time of writing.

There are also the rewards that come every four weeks.

• The Rewards of Ambition