Calling in Favours (Guide)
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You've earned some favour with the various factions? Now, what to do with them? Perhaps you want to Call in some favours!
Fixed storylets (Calling in Favours)[edit]
Within London[edit]
| Location | Action | Connection | Gain | EPA[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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The dead men's chest | 
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2.1 |
| A curious knot | 
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|
2.1 | |
| A soothing sight | 
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2.1 | |
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Call on your Bohemian friends to return a favour | 
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2.1 |
| A boon from a Lady-in-Waiting | 
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|
2.1 | |
| A conversation with the Commissioner of Police | 
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|
2.1 | |
| An arrangement with the Vicar-General | 
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2.1 | |
| Curry favour with the Duchess |
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 +50 CP The Duchess
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- | |
| A longer conversation with the Commissioner of Police |
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|
2.1[2] | |
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A meeting with one of the Widow's representatives | 
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- |
| An elliptical conversation | 
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2.1 | |
| A round of well-intentioned backslapping | 
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2.1 | |
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Exchange a considerable quantity of Connections for London Street Signs |
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3.125 |
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Trade favours with urchins | 
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2.91-3.54[3] | |
| Trade favours with criminals | 
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|
3 | |
| Trade favours with revolutionaries | 
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3.15 | |
| Acquire human remains from the criminals |
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(1.25[2]) |
Notes:
- Generally, 1 Favour is worth 420 pence of saleable items within London - the notable exception being The Flit's storylet. However, as you need to spend another action to call them in, the actual efficiency is lower.
In the Hinterlands[edit]
Currently all of these actions are under Call in Favours at Jericho Locks in 
| Action | Favours / Requirement |
Gain | EPA[1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Invertebrate Factor | 4 x Rubbery Men
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(5.5[2]) | |
| A Composed Composer | 4 x Bohemians
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(5.5[2][3]) | |
| A Silver-Eyed Zailor | 4 x The Docks
|
5.5-6.77[4] | |
| Meet with a Rookie Constable | 4 x Constables /
|
5.5 | |
| An Illustrated Novelist | 4 x The Great Game /
|
5.59 | |
| A Grinning Villain | 4 x Criminals /
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(5.5[2]) | |
| An Ambivalent Scion | 4 x Society /
|
5.5 | |
| A Vigorous Vicar | 4 x The Church /
|
5.5-6.76[5] | |
| A Mostly-Intact Professor | 4 x Tomb-Colonies /
|
5.5 | |
| A Hopeless Pickpocket | 4 x Urchins /
|
5.5-6.76[5] | |
| A Black-Clad Archivist | 4 x Revolutionaries /
|
5.5-6.76[5] | |
| A Glabrous Nymph | 4 x Hell /
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(5.5[2]) |
- ↑ Assuming the Favours were grinded at 1 action per favour without any additional costs or benefits (e.g. connected pets). Discounting Menace gains.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Using assumed value of skeleton parts
- ↑ Can be much more profitable when making sainted skeletons
- ↑ With the high end requiring the Rat Market and Tinned Ham arbitrage
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 High end requires the Rat Market
Other fixed storylets[edit]
Favours to tribute (5.68 EPA to 7.08 EPA)[edit]
See Money-Making#Cards for details.
Requires access to Offering Tribute to the Court of the Wakeful Eye
- Offer the labour of a zailor Docks
- Offer the talents of an artist Bohemians
- Offer a plump vicar Church
- Arrange the visit of a respected noblewoman Society
- Offer an unrepentant ex-convict who won't be missed Criminals
Forgotten Quarter Expeditions[edit]
See here
- Hire a porter from the docks is the best option to gain supplies
Opportunity Cards[edit]
- An Implausible Penance gives several choices for cashing in Favours: Criminals
- City Vices: a Rather Decadent Evening provides an opportunity to cash out Favours: Bohemian
- A consideration for services rendered provides an opportunity to cash out Favours: Hell
- In addition, all favours except Favours: Rubbery men can be used to train stats on Faction Cards
Conflict Cards[edit]
An efficient way to cash in your favours (and your connections with The Widow) is through conflict cards. These all require favours at 5+ in two conflicting factions at once, set up a conflict between two factions, and require you choose a side, spending favours from the side you didn't choose. They are drawn at Very Infrequent frequency (half as common as the typical card), and are undiscardable once drawn. Most either spend 2 favours to gain 7.5-8.5 
or spend all favours to gain an amount which scales with the number of favours spent, on the order of 22.5 for 7 favours. Several also offer a compromise option, which requires 3 actions and a high value in a particular quirk, but which gains 7.5-8.5 without spending any favours for less than 3 EPA.
In addition, all options on all conflict cards generate 1cp of 
; assuming no access to FATE-locked options, this has a value of 2 with access to the Bone Market, 1.1 if you are 
, 1 if you've sold your soul, or 0.5 otherwise.
Of particular note is the card A contact in the Great Game has a tale for you. This card is unlocked with 5 and 5 , and allows spending 2 for 7.5 of goods, 1cp of , and one of every second chance. This is one of the most efficient ways of getting second chances in the game, particularly Sudden Insights and Hard-Earned Lessons.
Options sorted by favour type[edit]
Note: The following lists only include notable uses for each Favours type that are both profitable at some point in the game, as well as repeatable. May be incomplete.
Bohemians[edit]
The Church[edit]
Constables[edit]
| Source | Action | Location | Cost | Reward | Value/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | A conversation with the Commissioner of Police | The Shuttered Palace | 1 x Favours
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|
4.2
|
| A longer conversation with the Commissioner of Police | 5 x Favours
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12.5
| ||
| Meet with a Rookie Constable | Jericho Locks | 4 x Favours
|
 
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27.5
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| Ask for your good sense and reasoned judgement to be recognised | The Magistracy of the Evenlode | 7 x Favours
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|
Locked with 8 or higher
| |
| Cards | Take tea at the station | Court and Cell: the Constables | 1 x Favours
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 per favour
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If
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| Learn cutting-edge scientific techniques | 3 x Favours
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If
| |||
| Attend a class given by the Implacable Detective | 5 x Favours
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If
| |||
| Finger a scapegoat | They all look the same to me | 2 x Favours
|
 
|
8.5 Conflict card: If 5 x Favours and 5 x Favours
| |
| Get word to the Smuggler | Crime or punishment? | 2 x Favours
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8.5 Conflict card: If 5 x Favours and 5 x Favours
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Criminals[edit]
The Docks[edit]
Fingerkings[edit]
| Source | Action | Location | Cost | Reward | Value/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | Claim the aid of Fingerkings | Lost in Strange Lands |  2 x Favours
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See Parabolan Hunting (Guide) |
The Great Game[edit]
| Source | Action | Location | Cost | Reward | Value/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | An elliptical conversation | Wolfstack Docks | 1 x Favours
|
|
4.2
|
| Ask the Muffled Intriguer to broker your Stolen Kisses | 
|
1 x Favours
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On Success 3
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On Rare Success 75
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0
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| An Illustrated Novelist | Jericho Locks | 4 x Favours
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| Cards | Take a stroll around Tyrant's Gardens | Whispers from the Surface: The Great Game | 1 x Favours
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per favour
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If
|
| Get some work done at Clathermont's tattoo parlour | 3 x Favours
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If
| |||
| Learn more at the carnival | 5 x Favours
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If
| |||
| Everyone deserves a second chance | A contact in the Great Game has a tale for you | 2 x Favours
|
     
|
7.5 Extra Chances capped at 21 Quirk capped at 5 | |
| Make contact with an agent | Under the Statue at Moulin | 
|
15 or
|
Hell[edit]
Revolutionaries[edit]
| Source | Action | Location | Cost | Reward | Value/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | Passion and bats | The Empress' Court | 1 x Favours
|
 
|
When Carving out a Reputation at Court (Guide) |
| Trade favours with revolutionaries | The Flit | 3 x Favours
|
|
12.6
| |
| A Black-Clad Archivist | Jericho Locks | 4 x Favours
|
 
|
2.5 and 25 or
| |
| Cards | Learn the knife, the club, the brick | Gunpowder and Zeal: the Revolutionaries | 1 x Favours
|
 per favour)
|
if
|
| There are old revolutionaries and bold revolutionaries | 3 x Favours
|
if
| |||
| And now... bombs! | 5 x Favours
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if
| |||
| Convince the Revolutionaries to find somewhere else | Amber in the well | 2 x Favours
|
|
8
| |
| Call in favours from Revolutionaries (Ealing) | Under the Statue | 4 x Favours
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|
30 requires  3 Ealing Development
| |
| Call in favours from Revolutionaries (The Hurlers) | Under the Statue at the Hurlers | 
|
30 requires  5 Hurlers Development
| ||
| Call in favours with the Tracklayer's Union | Under the Statue at Marigold Station |
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and 25 or requires  1-9 Marigold Development
|
Rubbery Men[edit]
| Source | Action | Location | Cost | Reward | Value/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | A curious knot | The Forgotten Quarter | 1 x Favours
|
|
4.2
|
| An Invertebrate Factor | Jericho Locks | 4 x Favours
|
 
|
2.5+ See Assembling a Skeleton (Guide) | |
| Cards | Accept a damp gift | Slime and Amber: the Rubbery Men | 1 x Favours
|
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On Rare Success Insight capped at 21
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| all Favours
|
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On normal Success Nodules depends on Favours spent
| |||
| Convince the Rubbery Men to move on | Amber in the well | 2 x Favours
|
|
8.4
| |
| Finger the guilty party | They all look the same to me | 
|
8
| ||
| Call in favours from Rubbery Men | Under the Statue | 
|
12.5
| ||
| Direct your creditors to the Tentacled Entrepreneur | A Word From Your Creditors | 6 x Favours
|
|
Requires 
| |
| Save the Tomb-Colonist! | A misfortune at the Carnival | all Favours
|
  
|
12.5 plus Scraps Scraps depends on Favours spent
|
Society[edit]
Tomb-Colonies[edit]
| Source | Action | Location | Cost | Reward | Value/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | The dead men's chest | The Forgotten Quarter | 1 x Favours
|
|
4.2
|
| A Mostly-Intact Professor | Jericho Locks | 4 x Favours
|
 
|
27.5
| |
| Cards | Go shooting with a Sharp-eyed Gamekeeper | Bandages and Dust: The Tomb-Colonies | 1 x Favours
|
per favour
|
If
|
| Fence with a Veteran Sergeant of Hussars | 3 x Favours
|
If
| |||
| Spar with a Black Ribbon Duellist | 5 x Favours
|
If
| |||
| Trade your Collection of Curiosities for five Puzzling Maps | 1 x Favours
|
|
65
| ||
| Discreetly inform the family about the baronet's communication | Going gentle | 2 x Favours
|
 
|
8
| |
| Call in favours from Tomb Colonists | Under the Statue |   
|
13.6 Requires 2 Ealing Development
| ||
| Save the Rubbery Man | A misfortune at the Carnival | all Favours
|
 
|
13.1 plus Nodules Nodules depends on Favours spent
|
Urchins[edit]
Options sorted by Connected type[edit]
Benthic[edit]
| Source | Action | Location/Card | Additional Cost/Requirements | Connected CP Cost | Reward | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | Study your journals with a learned colleague | Your Inventory, 
|
,  3
|
-5 |
|
|
| Dealing with the deviless | Your Inventory,
|
, 3
|
-5 |
|
||
| Benthic's Press | Your Inventory,
|
, 6
|
-20 |
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| Enter into correspondence with the Department of Cryptospelunking and Portable Antiquities | Your Inventory,
|
, 5
|
-15 | 
|
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| Cards | Trade Favours for Bones | Under the Statue at Burrow-Infra-Mump | : Put up a statue honouring your Custom-Made Saint, 20
|
|
|
Drawn in 
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The Duchess[edit]
| Source | Action | Location/Card | Cost/Requirements | Connected CP Cost | Reward | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | '...I flatter myself the Duchess was fond of me...' | 
|
5
|
-10 | -3 CP
|
|
| Cards | Trade on your connections | A Talkative Cat | 20
|
-3 |
|
Drawn while On a Heist (Guide). |
The Masters of the Bazaar[edit]
| Source | Action | Location/Card | Additional Cost/Requirements | Connected CP Cost | Reward | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | Paying the Master's dues | 
|
 4
|
-1 | is gone. Aligns your to A Guardian of the Realm
|
|
| '...I have, with some trepidation, contacted a hooded acquaintance...' | 
|
 1
|
-1 | -10 CP
|
||
| Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Curator | 
|
3, 10 - 90,  exactly 1,  exactly 2,  exactly 2,  exactly 2
|
N/A | Sets to 300 - Curator
|
See Assembling a Skeleton (Guide) | |
| Call upon a higher power | When you get ARRESTED! | 5, < 5
|
-15 | is gone. +5 CP
|
Prevents your from increasing
|
The Summerset[edit]
| Source | Action | Location/Card | Additional Cost/Requirements | Connected CP Cost | Reward | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | Read out your Tales of Terror at a Summerset College Senior Common Room | Your Inventory, 
|
, 3
|
-5 |
|
The Widow[edit]
| Source | Action | Location/Card | Additional Cost/Requirements | Connected CP Cost | Reward | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylets | A meeting with one of the Widow's representatives | 
|
15
|
-120 |
|
|
| Cards | Trade on your connections | An Implausible Penance ➤ Glim-Smuggling | 15,
|
-120 |
|
|
| Arrange for the girl to return to the urchin-gangs | A familiar face by the school railings | -500 |  , , -3 CP  , +1 CP
|
Requires , 30 to draw. to draw.
| ||
| Make an agreement favouring the dock-gangs | The Acacia and the Butterfly |
|
-100 | ,  ,  (1-60), +1 CP  , +1 CP
|
Requires , 50 to draw.
| |
| Make an agreement favouring the dock-gangs | The Acacia and the Butterfly | -500 | , , (1-80), +1 CP
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Requires , 50 to draw.
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