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== Q: How do I raise Renown? ==
 
== Q: How do I raise Renown? ==
Main article: [[Factions (Guide)]]
 
 
* If you do yet not have any Renown, you may obtain the first five levels at [[Mrs Plenty's Carnival]]. [[The Big Top]] and [[The Sideshows]] give both Favours and Renown.
 
* If you do yet not have any Renown, you may obtain the first five levels at [[Mrs Plenty's Carnival]]. [[The Big Top]] and [[The Sideshows]] give both Favours and Renown.
 
* To raise Renown beyond 5, players must use [[:Category: Faction Items|Faction Items]], which may be purchased at the Bazaar. These convert Favours into Renown, sometimes also costing other resources. The faction item will let you raise your Renown as far as your stats allow, so there is no need to look elsewhere. A few stories may slightly increase Renown with certain factions.
 
* To raise Renown beyond 5, players must use [[:Category: Faction Items|Faction Items]], which may be purchased at the Bazaar. These convert Favours into Renown, sometimes also costing other resources. The faction item will let you raise your Renown as far as your stats allow, so there is no need to look elsewhere. A few stories may slightly increase Renown with certain factions.
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== Q: What is the easiest way to get a Four-Card Lodging? ==
 
== Q: What is the easiest way to get a Four-Card Lodging? ==
 
* The four-card lodgings ([[Reservation at the Royal Bethlehem]], [[A guest room at the Brass Embassy]], and [[Premises at the Bazaar]]) may either be bought at the Penstock's Land Agency at the Bazaar, or less expensively through opportunity cards or storylets.
 
* The four-card lodgings ([[Reservation at the Royal Bethlehem]], [[A guest room at the Brass Embassy]], and [[Premises at the Bazaar]]) may either be bought at the Penstock's Land Agency at the Bazaar, or less expensively through opportunity cards or storylets.
* The Brass Embassy Guest-room and the Bazaar Premises can be acquired by getting the required resources (Brilliant Souls or Bazaar Permits, respectively) via [[Thefts of a particular character]] in the Flit. (For the guest room, a percentage of Brilliant Souls needs to be upconverted into Muscaria Brandy.) This usually takes around 400-500 actions, depending on your [[Shadowy]] and whether you have a [[Gang of Hoodlums]] or not (if you already have access to Parabola, grind Casing there instead). The required items may also be obtained by other methods, but the one mentioned is probably most efficient. If you don't have access to the University Lab yet, this approach also works for the Room at the Royal Bethlehem, which requires 50 Antique Mysteries.
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* The Brass Embassy Guest-room and the Bazaar Premises can be acquired by getting the required resources (Brilliant Souls or Bazaar Permits, respectively) via [[Thefts of a particular character]] in the Flit. (For the guest room, a percentage of Brilliant Souls needs to be upconverted into Muscaria Brandy.) This usually takes around 400-500 actions, depending on your [[Shadowy]] and whether you have a [[Gang of Hoodlums]] or not (if you already have access to Parabola, grind casing Casing there instead). The required items may also be obtained by other methods, but the one mentioned is probably most efficient. If you don't have access to the University Lab yet, this approach also works for the Room at the Royal Bethlehem, which requires 50 Antique Mysteries.
  
 
== Q: How do I grind [stat]? ==
 
== Q: How do I grind [stat]? ==
Main article: [[Leveling (Guide)]]
 
 
* The four main stats ([[Watchful]], [[Dangerous]], [[Persuasive]], and [[Shadowy]]) include recommended area progressions on their Wiki pages to indicate where players should be to train their stats as they progress through the game. If players want to specifically raise their stats as quickly as possible:
 
* The four main stats ([[Watchful]], [[Dangerous]], [[Persuasive]], and [[Shadowy]]) include recommended area progressions on their Wiki pages to indicate where players should be to train their stats as they progress through the game. If players want to specifically raise their stats as quickly as possible:
** For Watchful, the most effective method is to [[Talk to the Porters]] while pursuing [[Making Your Name: Investigations in the university|Investigations in the University]]. The Sudden Insights that this action gives may be converted to Watchful CP, and the Investigating [[Raid a Message-Drop|may be used in the Flit]] to make the process profitable.
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** For Watchful, the most effective method is to [[Talk to the Porters]] while pursuing [[Investigations in the university|Investigations in the University]]. The Sudden Insights that this action gives may be converted to Watchful CP, and the Investigating [[Raid a Message-Drop|may be used in the Flit]] to make the process profitable.
 
** For Dangerous, players may use the storylet [[An Eye Wide Open]], which is available after completing a cycle of the [[Riding the Savage Cobbles (Guide)|Riding the Savage Cobbles ]]carousel, to get 5 CP Dangerous per action.
 
** For Dangerous, players may use the storylet [[An Eye Wide Open]], which is available after completing a cycle of the [[Riding the Savage Cobbles (Guide)|Riding the Savage Cobbles ]]carousel, to get 5 CP Dangerous per action.
 
** For Shadowy, players may engage in Suspicious Loitering with each other, and [[Learn Shadowy lessons from your surveillance|Learn Shadowy lessons ]]to get bonus Shadowy CP and Hastily Scrawled Warning Notes.
 
** For Shadowy, players may engage in Suspicious Loitering with each other, and [[Learn Shadowy lessons from your surveillance|Learn Shadowy lessons ]]to get bonus Shadowy CP and Hastily Scrawled Warning Notes.
  
 
== Q: When should I become a Person of Some Importance (PoSI)? ==
 
== Q: When should I become a Person of Some Importance (PoSI)? ==
Main article: [[A Person of Some Importance (Guide)]]
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* Becoming a [[A Person of Some Importance -|Person of Some Importance]] does not lock any significant content in the game, and so there is no disadvantage to pursuing it as soon as it becomes possible for your character. See the [[A Person of Some Importance (Guide)|Guide]] on this Wiki for more information.
* Becoming a [[A Person of Some Importance -|Person of Some Importance]] does not lock any significant content in the game, and so there is no disadvantage to pursuing it as soon as it becomes possible for your character.
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== Q: Where has [[Attend to Matters of Society!]] etc disappeared to? ==
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* The map has been updating moving most storylets previous found in your [[Your Lodgings|Lodgings]] to either [[Your Social Engagements]] or [[Your Activities]]. These can be found in the bottom right corner of the map; the calendar and butterfly next to the house.
  
 
== Q: What's the best way to cash in [[Investigating...]] accumulating with repeating visits to [[Helicon House]]? ==
 
== Q: What's the best way to cash in [[Investigating...]] accumulating with repeating visits to [[Helicon House]]? ==
Main article: [[Investigating (Guide)#Spending Investigating...|Spending Investigating]], in the Investigating Guide
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* Unfortunately, the only place to trade this in the endgame is [[The Heights of Chicanery]] in the Flit. It is an [[Investigating...]]-challenge that becomes straightforward at 8, so everything beyond that will effectively be wasted.
 
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* Alternatively you can spend it [[Inform on the Gang|to reduce Banditry in the Upper River]].
The Upper River:
 
 
 
* [[Investigate the Clay Highwayman: Rely on recent investigating...|Investigate the Clay Highwayman]] to gain 1 CP {{IL|On the Trail of the Clay Highwayman}} (up to level 5) and {{IL|An Identity Uncovered!}} This option only costs 15 CP of Investigating (rather than resetting the quality), and the card for this option only stops appearing at {{IL|On the Trail of the Clay Highwayman|Appearance=On the Trail}} 100; therefore, you can keep cashing in Investigating for Identities Uncovered for quite a while.
 
* [[Learn what you can about him]] when captured by the Clay Highwayman.
 
* With {{Il|The Tale of the Clay Highwayman}} 12 and up, you can [[Inform on the Gang]] to reduce {{IL|Seeing Banditry in the Upper River}}.
 
* There are uses of Investigating in the [[Following up Rumours of Cornelius (Guide)|Following Up Rumours of Cornelius]] story.
 
 
 
{{IL|The Flit}}:
 
* [[The Heights of Chicanery]] — [[More than just Messages]] for {{IL|Piece of Rostygold|540 x}} (rare success: {{IL|Foxfire Candle Stub|540 x}}, {{IL|Relic of the Second City|10 x}}, and a {{IL|Reprehensible Lizard}}).  
 
** This is an {{Il|Investigating...}} challenge that becomes straightforward at 8 (so everything beyond that will effectively be wasted, as success resets Investigating)
 
* [[Making Use of Cats (storylet)|Making Use of Cats]] — [[Follow up a tip-off]] for {{IL|Cryptic Clue|540 x}}. This also resets Investigating but is a {{Il|Shadowy}} challenge.
 
  
 
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