Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out (Guide)

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Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out is a one-off event succeeding Elections.

5 dig sites have opened in Fallen London. These have to be fully sponsored and excavated, by buying scrip with Fate, Offering food to the diggers and digging.

• See Mr Chimes' Grand Clearing-Out (historical) for a day-to-day recap of the event

Overview

Across London 5 new dig sites have appeared. In order to complete this both the digging and fuelling qualities for that dig site, which are shared globally, need to hit 1 million, and the FATE part needs to be fully funded. Once all these three are completed the dig site will be excavated, players will be unable to dig/fuel further, and a new repeatable activity will be added.

Digging

The most basic way to contribute is to Help with the digging, which raises (quality dependent on which dig the player is at), by 5 x, and contributes to reaching 1 million for that location. Every time Help with the digging is played it will redirect the player to A Find Beneath the Streets, where either economy item(s) or, with the right values, an equipment item can be found (see #Unique Rewards for more information).

Fuelling

Alternatively, several food items (, , and ) can be spent to increase by 20 x per food item. Feeding the workers redirects to The Opening of a Chamber, where players can claim a different economy reward, however the unique item rewards are the same.

A Ubiquitous card, An Upturned Cart, also provides various options that significantly increase fueling at a chosen digsite. Once every digsite was opened, the card was discarded.

Now that one of the digsites has been completed, new fueling options have been revealed which increase by 80 times the number of opened digsites.

Sponsoring

Players could buy for FATE at the digsites, which helped Fund the dig sites, however this goal was completed within an hour of the event starting.

Progress

All Fate goals have been met.

Location	Dig Progress	Feeding Progress	Overall Progress
Moloch Street	1000005	1000020	100.00%
Spite	1000005	1000018	100.00%
The University	1000005	1000001	100.00%
The Singing Mandrake	1000005	1000038	100.00%
The Blind Helmsman	1000005	1000070	100.00%
Overall Progress	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%
Last updated: 13:49 28 Jul 2021 (UTC)

Rewards

Every action spent digging will allow a reward to be claimed from A Find Beneath the Streets for another action. Every action spent fuelling will allow a reward to be claimed from The Opening of a Chamber. With the exact right number of Digging/Fuelling one of the following items can be claimed. This progress is dependent on your attributes, according to Bruno.

Additionally, can be spent for a variety of rewards. 30 can be gained initially for a cost of , further scrip must be gained from spending fate (1:1 ratio) or from exchanging from previous elections.

Rewards when digging or fuelling

Unique Rewards

While you can get these from either source, it's suggested to gain them while digging, as that is cheaper.

Item	Action	Requirement	Stats	Notes
	Something loud	Delving or Fueling 3-7	+4 +1
	Something forbidden	Delving or Fueling 8	+4 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for (peer items are RETIRED)
	Something silvery	Delving or Fueling 11	+8 +1
	Something toxic	Delving or Fueling 14	+8 +1
	Something red	Delving or Fueling 17	+5 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for
	Something bright or Something moving	Delving or Fueling 20+	+8 -2 +1 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot non-Mood item for Shared Best-in-Slot item for (peer item is only) Shared Best-in-Slot item for

Rewards from digging

Delving	Reward	Value ( )
Rare Success		12.50
0-2		1.00
3-4		1.00
5-6		1.00
7		1.00
8-9		2.50
10-11		2.50
12-13		2.50
14-16		2.50
17		N/A
18-19		2.50
20		25.00
21		25.00
22		7.50 + N/A (12.50 if valuing Justificandes at 2.50 each)

Rewards from fuelling

Bear in mind that fuelling costs 40 worth of tea, biscuits or pies

Fueling	Reward	Value ( )
0-3		42.50
4-6		42.50
7	+7 CP	~38.00 + Anticandle
8-10		45.00
11-13		45.00
14-15		50.00
16-17	+1 CP	50.00
18-19		45.00
20		62.50
21		62.50
22		62.50

Rewards from Scrip

Pavilion of Subterranean Delights

The pavilion contains new rewards from this year. Each reward is connected to one of the dig sites and provides additional hints to what happens there.

Item	cost	Stats	Notes
	20 x	+8 +1 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Shared Best-in-Slot item for Strict Best-in-Slot item for
	20 x	+1 +1 +1 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Strict Best-in-Slot item for Shared Best-in-Slot BDR item
	30 x	+8 +1 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Strict Best-in-Slot item for
	30 x	+8 +1 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Shared Best-in-Slot item for Strict Best-in-Slot item for
	50 x	+4 +2 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Strict Best-in-Slot item for

Marquee of Mystification

These rewards are from previous elections. Their scrip cost is equal to their previous fate cost.

Item	cost	Stats	Notes
	20 x	+8 +1 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Shared Best-in-Slot item for
	20 x	+8 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for
	20 x	+8 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for
	20 x	+8 +1	Strict Best-in-Slot non-Mood item for
	20 x	+8 +1 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for
	20 x	+8 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot non-Fate item for
	20 x	+8 +1
	20 x	+8 +1
	20 x	+8 +1
	30 x	+4 +1 +1 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for
	30 x	+4 +1 +1	Strict Best-in-Slot item for
	30 x	+4 +1 +1	Strict Best-in-Slot item for
	30 x	+8 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for
	30 x	+8 +1	Shared Best-in-Slot item for Strict Best-in-Slot item for
Augmented Electrostatic Machine	30 x	+3 +1	Strict Best-in-Slot item for
	30 x	+3 +1
	40 x	+6 +1
	40 x	+8 +6 +1
	50 x	+6
	50 x	+8 +4 +1

Location Clues & Unlocks

After being fully excavated and financed, each location contains something different.

Dig Site	Associated Item	Location Unlocked	Description from Look into these tunnels
		Underclay (Guide)	The tunnels here have delved deep into the Earth, and they have uncovered remnants of a previous Falling City: Stone blocks and clay bricks of unfamiliar make; the odd fragment of a stone tablet or potsherd.
		Old Newgate (Guide)	Numerous iron chains and manacles […] leading a Benthic professor to theorize that these are the remains of the HMS Ungulate […] He hasn't proposed a theory for how the ship got buried […] Nor does his hypothesis account for the constant buzzing […]
		L.B. Industries (Guide)	The tunnels here are filled with a noise of machinery. The bulk of excavated items seem to originate in London – whatever is buried here must have sunk into the Earth with the Fall, if not more recently.
		Spider Symposium (Guide)	The tunnels beneath the Singing Mandrake have yielded relatively few artefacts of note. But they do have a recurring problem with cobwebs, and more than one digging Londoner has reported a chittering noise from below.
		The Sunken Embassy (Guide)	A ring of brass the colour of mahogany was recovered early on in the digging. Papers and files are commonly found, too, though they are often too damaged to read. And it's hard to ignore that the tunnels have the faintest scent of brimstone.