Professional Activities (Guide)

Mid PoSI Content and Onwards

Professional Activities Summary
Variable-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
0 A				1+ A				0 A
Progress Details			Raise to desired cash out. Helping out different factions gives various payouts.
Items Inputs/Outputs Outputs
Raw EPA			4.30			Raw SPA			8.72

Professional Activities allow players with Top-Tier Professions more gameplay opportunities to explore their chosen identity by taking additional work-for-hire. The content is unique to each profession, but with shared mechanics and rewards. Activities are found in Your Activities (Lodgings sub-area).

Overview

Activities are found in Storylets in . The main structure is playing Airs-dependent actions to build up a Reward quality, which may be spent in on a variety of items. All Professions share the same reward Storylet.

Working the Activities will also allow you to progress a short storyline, and eventually choose a Specialisation for your Profession. Thus far, the only effect of Specialisation is unlocking additional Activity actions. Specialisation can be reset by changing Professions.

Tracking Qualities

Determines what jobs are available. Is randomized after doing a job.

The reward quality gained by doing jobs, which is cashed out for a variety of resources under the storylet. The rewards section details what resources you can get.

Services Rendered:

, , , , , , , , , , and

Discrete Qualities gained by doing jobs for the corresponding faction. Each faction has a payout under that require spending 5 levels of their Services Rendered (note that these rewards still require the appropriate amount of Invoices). Different (partially overlapping) sets of client factions are available to different professions.

Two mutually exclusive specialisations are available to each profession. Unlocks a job that grants a Services Rendered that cannot otherwise be obtained by that profession, with the Services Rendered differing by specialisation, along with another job with very difficult challenges but high payout. Specialize by progressing

Story tracker for gaining a Specialisation. Each Profession has a unique 4-part story, with the Specialisation gained depending on the chosen ending.

Required to progress . Has a chance to be gained with each job done, with the chance of gaining it increasing with

A hidden quality gained by doing jobs. Increases the chance of . (The RNG has been fitted with a muzzle to prevent it from getting too far out of hand.)

Activities

The Activities consist of a bunch of jobs-for-hire, with availability depending on the . Each is a single action. Some of the more difficult actions are gated by player progress, and a few are gated by .

Each Tier 3 Profession is associated with two Primary Stats and one Advanced Skill, as demonstrated on their Professional Item. Each Professional Activity task has a Broad Challenge against one of the two Primary Stats for that Profession, and a Narrow Challenge against the Advanced Skill. More difficult activities have higher rewards.

Easy Activities

The most accessible tasks have the following in common:

• Challenge difficulties of 90 Broad & 1 Narrow (100% success requires stat levels of 150 / 5)
• No other requirements to play
• Grants 320 x  Invoice Value on success, 200 on failure
• At least one such option is available at every value

Medium Activities

The next step in in activities have the following in common:

• Challenge difficulties of either 180 Broad & 4 Narrow OR 140 Broad & 10 Narrow (100% success requires 300 / 9 or 235 / 15).
• Grants 410 x  Invoice Value on success, 200 on failure.
• Gated on either game progress, or .
• While game progress requirements range from early-midgame () to the very-late endgame (), the options themselves are not more difficult or rewarding. Rather, advanced game progress merely seems to expand the range of Airs values where these options are available.
• One or more is available with 80% of Airs values without , or 90% with

Hard Activities

These most challenging and rewarding activities have the following in common:

• Challenge difficulties of 200 Broad & 13 Narrow (100% success requires 330 / 17).
• Grants 450 x  Invoice Value on success, 200 on failure.
• Requires A Professional Specialisation.
• A character may only have one such option available, which covers half the range of Airs values.

Which Challenge to Choose?

The following breakpoints are where you should change which difficulty you pursue. Medium challenge (Stats) and Medium challenge (Skills) are how the 2 medium challenges will be addressed.

Advanced Skill	Medium (Stats)	Hard (Vs Medium Stat)	Medium (Skill)	Hard (Vs Medium Skill)
4	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
5	286	N/A	N/A	N/A
6	245	N/A	N/A	N/A
7	215	N/A	N/A	N/A
8	191	N/A	N/A	N/A
9	172	N/A	N/A	N/A
10	172	N/A	N/A	N/A
11	172	N/A	223	N/A
12	172	N/A	191	N/A
13	172	N/A	167	N/A
14	172	N/A	100	N/A
15	172	N/A	100	N/A
16	172	312	100	312
17	N/A	160	100	280

Rewards

Action	Value	Extra Requirements	Available to which professions?	Reward
In Rostygold	Up to 500	N/A	All	Up to 500
In steel	1250	N/A	All
In bones	3100	N/A	All	One of the following:
In food	2750	N/A	All
In souls	1600		- Fractionist
In maps	1600		- Crimson Engineer - Siopian
In intelligence	1600		- Oneirotect - Hierarch of the Hunt - Iniquitor
In wine	1600		- Letheologist
In favours and rumour	1600
In jewels	1600
In mysteries	1600		- Ontological Cartographer
In silks	1600		- Beatificator
In dusty tomes	1600		- Teratomancer - Epistolant
In suspect relics	1600
In statements and testimonies	1600
In hard labour	1600		- Schismatic

Professions

Profession	Challenges	Factions

• Storylet: The Business of a Silverer
• Challenges: (Narrow difficulty), and (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Oneirotect and Ontological Cartographer
• Services Rendered: , , ( Oneirotect), ( Ontological Cartographer), ( Marigold Flower)

Airs	Requirements	Action	Challenges	Value	Services Rendered
1-30	5	Officiate a Wedding	180 4	410
1-40		Guide a gaggle of Bohemians through Parabola	90 0	320	Bohemians
1-50	Cartographer	Uncover a dark secret	200 13	450
10-40	Cartographer	Chart the edge of the Is-Not	140 10	410	Detective
31-70		Extricate a half-lost memory	90 0	320	Tomb-Colonists
41-60	Discovered: tSoS	Lead an expedition to the Sea of Spines	180 4	410
51-70	Marigold Flower	Recover an infernal artifact	140 10	410	Hell
51-100	Oneirotect	Engineer a fortification	200 13	450
61-100		Lance a persistent anxiety	90 0	320
71-100	Oneirotect	Repair a Memory Palace	180 4	410	The Great Game
81-100	5	Destroy an errant nightmare	140 10	410

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of .

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options							n/a
Oneirotect						n/a
Ontological Cartographer	n/a

seems more useful than for a late-game player capable of passing the relevant stat checks. The former pays in items that can all be sold for in the Upper River Exchange. The only uniquely desirable item for the latter is a single .

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• Storylet: The Business of a Monster-Hunter
• Challenges: (Narrow difficulty), and (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Hierarch of the Hunt and Teratomancer
• Services Rendered: , , ( Hierarch of the Hunt), ( Teratomancer), ()

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of .

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options							n/a
				n/a
Hierarch of the Hunt	n/a
Teratomancer						n/a

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• Storylet: The Business of a Correspondent
• Challenges: (Narrow difficulty), and (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Epistolant and Crimson Engineer
• Services Rendered: , , , ( Epistolant), ( Crimson Engineer)

Airs	Requirements	Action	Challenges	Value	Services Rendered
1-30	5	Help a client forge a contract	180 4	410	Hell
1-40		Defend a client with applied counterepistolograph	90 0	320	Society
1-50	Crimson Engineer	Perform an odontographic augmentation	200 13	450
10-40	Crimson Engineer	Engineer a flying contraption	140 10	410	Zailors
30-70		Compose a nostalgic ode	90 0	320
40-60		Restore a palimpsest from the Library at Jericho	180 4	410
50-70		Safely dispose of a cold word	140 10	410
51-100	Epistolant	Operate from first principles	200 13	450
60-100		Design a skin-safe tattoo	90 0	320	Bohemians
70-100	Epistolant	Translate a Möbius text	180 10	410	Benthic
80-100	5	Craft a set of defensive glyphwork	140 10	410

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of .

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options
				n/a
Epistolant						n/a
Crimson Engineer	n/a

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• Storylet: The Business of a Crooked-Cross
• Challenges: (Narrow difficulty), and (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Beatificator and Schismatic
• Services Rendered: , , , ( Beatificator), ( Schismatic)

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of .

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options
				n/a
Beatificator						n/a
Schismatic	n/a

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• Storylet: The Business of a Midnighter
• Challenges: (Narrow difficulty), and (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Iniquitor and Letheologist
• Services Rendered: , , , ( Iniquitor), ( Letheologist)

Airs	Requirements	Action	Challenges	Value	Services Rendered
1-30	5	Disgrace a Deacon	180 4	410
1-40		Catch up with international affairs	90 0	320	Hell
1-50	Iniquitor	Corrupt a rival network	200 13	450
10-40	Letheologist	Take confession from a Bohemian Intelligencer	140 10	410	Bohemians
30-70		Play correspondence chess	90 0	320	Zailors
40-60		Infiltrate Scottish Politics	180 4	410
50-70		Destabilise the Khanate	140 10	410
51-100	Letheologist	Perform a Gibeon Ritual	200 13	450
60-100		Exploit God's Editors	90 0	320
70-100	Iniquitor	Manipulate a European power	180 4	410
80-100	5	Deal with Peach Brandy Pirates	180 10	410

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of .

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options					n/a		n/a
Iniquitor	n/a
Letheologist						n/a

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• Storylet: The Business of a Licentiate
• Challenges: (Narrow difficulty), and (Broad difficulty)
• Specialisations: Fractionist and Siopian
• Services Rendered: , , , ( Fractionist), ( Siopian)

Airs	Requirements	Action	Challenges	Value	Services Rendered
1-30	5	'The Catherine Wheel'	180 4	410
1-40		'The Rabid Hound'	90 0	320
1-50	Siopian	'The Spider in the Web'	200 13	450
10-40	Siopian	'The one who has uncovered forbidden places'	140 10	410
30-70		'The Greenfinch'	90 0	320
40-60		'The one who has traced their hand through the poisoned waters'	180 4	410
50-70		'The Unknown Unknown'	140 10	410
51-100	Fractionist	'The loyal servant whose final duty must be discharged'	200 13	450
60-100		'The Blunt Instrument'	90 0	320
70-100	Fractionist	'The subject of a suspended writ'	180 4	410
80-100	5	A very familiar alias	140 10	410

The table below summarizes the options available at different ranges of .

Airs	1 - 10	10 - 20	21 - 30	31 - 40	41 - 50	51 - 60	61 - 70	71 - 80	81 - 90	91 - 100
Universal Options							n/a
Fractionist						n/a
Siopian	n/a