Associating with Radical Academics (Guide)
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Donate items to raise  and turn in at the Court of the Wakeful Eye. Caps at 260.
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is a story in which your character first discovers the secret Dilmun Club and subsequently gets involved in business there. Being a secret club, it's not equippable in the sense of other clubs such as 
or 
. Eventually a membership in the Dilmun Club brings you on your way to 
, where you can gain access to one or more of the following companions:
Each gives a +10 bonus in one of the main stats, and +1 in either 
, 
, or 
.
In addition, you can turn in a number of valuable things for and hand in for high value items, making it a potentially decent grind for echoes and rarer items.
Associating with Radical Academics is also a prerequisite for 
. See Embarking on a Voyage of Scientific Discovery (Guide) for more info on this.
You can discover the club before becoming 
, but in order finish the storyline, you need the following:
- Your own ship
at least 1
is an advantage
Progressing [edit]
The first section of involves discovering the Dilmun Club. At the start, progress can either be gained on the The Seekers of the Garden card with sufficient 
or on separate cards.
Unlock[edit]
One of:
- A gathering of scholars opportunity card, needs
- The Seekers of the Garden opportunity card, option "Attend an assembly of academics", needs
Level 1[edit]
- Unusual Academics, opportunity card, requires
- Finding the Dilmun Club from The Seekers of the Garden opportunity card, needs , challenge (equip all your Bizarre gear to make this easier).
Level 2[edit]
- The Museum of Mistakes, opportunity card, requires
Level 3[edit]
- Can His Amused Lordship help you find the Dilmun Club? from The Seekers of the Garden opportunity card, needs
- Find the Dilmun Club Headquarters from The Seekers of the Garden opportunity card, needs
(which you lose on success)
Level 4[edit]
This step needs .
Join the Dilmun Club!, storylet in 
, which gives three options for your sponsor. Each option costs a variety of items and qualities.
- His Amused Lordship
- exactly 3
- 15.
- Bishop of St Fiacre's, challenge
(lose even if you fail the challenge)
- Implacable Detective, challenge
(lose even if you fail the challenge)
This step gives you the (Adornment).
Level 5[edit]
Now you have to wait about one day in real-world time, then you get A meeting of the Dilmun Club in your messages.
Level 6[edit]
- Return to the Dilmun Club, storylet in , gives you (depending on your previous sponsor)
- His Amused Lordship:
- Bishop of St Fiacre's
- Implacable Detective
- His Amused Lordship:
Level 7[edit]
To get to the next level, you have to get banished from the Empress' Court, visit the Foreign Office, and travel to Port Carnelian and serve at least one successful term as a Governor there. See Carving out a Reputation at Court (Guide) for a detailed description.
After you have done that, and returned to London, you'll draw the card Inching Ever Closer, which progresses you to level 10.
Level 10[edit]
If you haven't done so, finish the Making Your Name (Guide) Dangerous track to gain access to 
. Head to the fourth coil. Doing so requires Making Progress in the Labyrinth of Tigers 14. When you leave the fourth coil, you have a new option, Head to the Fifth Coil. Playing Meet the Tiger Keeper in his second office will advance you to level 15.
Level 15[edit]
Playing A Sufficient Tribute after submitting at least (see below) raises the quality to level 20.
Level 20[edit]
Upon arriving to the Court, you will Accept a summons from the Banded Prince. This raises you to level 25 and loses . Progress till Deepening Relations with the Court and requesting access to a Minister will set the quality to 75.
Level 75[edit]
At this point you may gather additional tribute and request access to the remaining 3 ministers.
This level marks the start of the Evolution serial story. See Evolution (Guide) for more information.
Offering Tribute to the Court of the Wakeful Eye[edit]
The storylet appears in the fifth coil of . Here, you must offer valuable items until you have increased to at least 80. You can later return to this storylet, even after you have advanced the story further.
Most of these options value one point of at 2.50 Echoes.
You raise your up to 260 at most.
If you have several copies of items such as 
, 
that are valued at 2.5 echoes per tribute and can be sold at the bazaar, it's generally most efficient to sell them to bazaar, buy as many 
as you can afford, and offer those. This takes fewer actions than offering the items directly.
If you wish to get all four ministers (see below), it will cost you . Via , this costs 32 orphans and 2073.60 echoes.
Also see the tribute combination list here.
Other Means of Tribute[edit]
There are two additional ways to gain without directly offering items to the Tiger Keeper. Both are part of other, action-intensive carousels, and are notable mainly in that gained from these sources can exceed the softcap of 263.
A Carnelian work[edit]
After being Restored to Court, this ballet is among the new works you may create. When completed, you gain in addition to the usual rewards for a minor work There are many options for gaining 
outside of Court, so the gain is a nice bonus for an already somewhat-profitable activity. Consult Artistry in the Empress' Court (Guide) for more details.
An audience with the Banded Prince[edit]
If you have raised to at least 15, you will receive a bonus of when you hand in your after any future term as Governor of Port Carnelian. This by itself is not terribly efficient, but you only need a single point of to do it. This means that during a term as Governor in which you spend many actions restoring 
, you can convert all SD to 
and cash in for Tribute, saving your payoffs for future terms when you will surpass the breakpoints and get a better payout in 
s or 
s.
Other than those breakpoints, the rewards scale linearly with SD/ SH, so unless the total is low enough that you'd otherwise choose Honoured with a State Dinner, shifting to Horseheads is generally a mistake; just shift everything toward Delights as long as the return is good (it virtually always is), and redeem for the usual payment in items plus the bonus Tribute. For further details, consult Port Carnelian (Guide).
Getting Rewards at the Court of the Wakeful Eye[edit]
Once you have submitted at least , you can play A Sufficient Tribute in .
Then you can set Zail to the Elder Continent (South-East on the map) and select the Court of the Wakeful Eye as your destination. See Zailing (Guide) for more information.
Once you have arrived, you can select one of the Ministers as a companion. Later you can select another minister for each.
At the Court, you have the option to spend time with a minister you already have. This costs and 4 actions. You must also have a certain 'stories' quality. It gives an item (or items) worth 62.5 Echoes.
| Minister | Stats | Option | Required Quality | Reward |
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 +10 +1 |
Join the Minister of Enigmas for teatime |  7 |
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 +10 +1 |
Enjoy a bubbling hookah with the Minister of Culture | 7 |
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 +10 +1 |
Enjoy an extended walk through the fungal jungle with the Minister of War |  7 |
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+10 +1 |
Join the Minister of State Affairs for a long afternoon |  7 |
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Analysis[edit]
The Court of the Wakeful Eye is a reliable way to obtain very good companions, and several of the grinds associated with it have very high EPA in addition to being good sources of specific items.
The limit of max means you cannot arbitrarily reduce the relative action cost of zee travel by operating in big batches.
On the plus side, selling items from the ministers through the Rat Market can boost the profitability. The general idea is to turn in for 
, and then use those to buy items that you can sell at the bazaar at a favourable rate. This option depends on the various time-dependent conditions of the rat market.
