Department of Menace Eradication (Guide)

Early MYN Content

Hunting Menaces Summary
Locked Limited-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
1 A				2+/4+/6+ A				2 A
Progress Details			Lower Hiding to 0 and catch the contract. Base Hiding and difficulty is set by the chosen contract.
Items Inputs/Outputs Start-up 3 FATE for Doll. Boosting Outputs
Raw EPA			1.00			Raw SPA			2.00

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One of the starting storylets that a player has access to is The Department of Menace Eradication, where they can take part in helping rid London of some of the lowely pests that are not even worth the time of the great monster hunters. But hey, everyone has to start somewhere, and they'll start being a rat catcher. Several of these are required to increase your . This guide only covers the contracts available in this storylet.

Quarrys

A cheat sheet for available Quarrys:

Target	Requirements			Additional	Rewards
A Worryingly Large Rat	N/A	10	15		OR
Sorrow-Spiders	1	Uses a different mechanic and is covered in this Guide
A Miniature Menace FATE	15	20	20	3	OR OR OR (3 Max) OR
A Malicious Ushabti	3	30	30	4	OR

Hunting across London

The goal for each contract is to reduce to 0 so that the player can confront the menace, usually by capturing or killing it, but for the rat, it may also involve searching its lair. If they fail this action, they will gain some more but reduce their .

Hunting Actions

Option	Requirement		Success	Failure
Search for traces	< 4		Rare:
Expose yourself as bait
Employ the strategies of Mr Inch	30 < 4
Stalk silently
Lay a shining trail	70		-0-1 x
Approach it very casually	No		+1 x
Lay poisoned bait	5 1 x		Reset

Trading in the Bounty

Once you have caught up with the quarry, you will have a couple options on how you wish to deal with it. These are detailed below.

A Worryingly Large Rat

Option		Success	Failure
Shoot it the moment you see it
Explore its lair thoroughly before it returns

A Miniature Menace

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Option		Success	Failure
		Further Choices, see below.

If the second choice is taken there is one more choice to make:

Option	Challenge	Success	Failure
			?
			?
	N/A		N/A
	N/A	(Max 10)	N/A

A Malicious Ushabti

Option		Success	Failure
Shoot it the moment you see it
Capture it alive!	120

Strategy

Early Game

If possible, one should start with Approach it very casually, and then if the chance to succeed on Expose yourself as bait is at least 50%, then repeatedly take this option. This is the quickest way to defeat the quarry. This result in capturing the rat in a minimum of 5 actions.

Grinding Gratitude

Later on, a player may wish to return to the department in order to grind . Without having any this will take an average of 8 actions, for 100 /action. If a player is willing to spend , the optimum strategy is to Lay a shining trail twice and then Expose yourself as bait for an average of 6 actions for 133 /action. This is likely not an optimal grind once you have access to , however, because by then, the player should have an easy access to a source of for the better curator grind. See The Prelapsarian Museum (Guide).