Searching out a Missing Woman (Guide)

Early PoSI Content

Searching Out The Missing Woman Summary
Fixed-Length Activity
Setup				Progress				End
1 A				9 A				1 A
Progress Details			Raise Searching out a Missing Woman to 5.
Items Inputs/Outputs Outputs Whirring Contraption Dramatic Tension Strong-Backed Labour Use of Villains Other Dramatic Tension Uses: Favours: The Great Game Stolen Kiss Bazaar Permit Collection of Curiosities Volume of Collated Research
Raw EPA			1.09			Raw SPA			-

General

If you head to Wilmot's End you can search for a missing woman, a carousel that takes 11 actions.

There are various storylets and cards to raise Searching out a Missing Woman, depending on your qualities, which menaces you are willing to risk acquiring, and Looking in High Places and Low (the qualities are abbreviated as SoaMW and  LiHPaL respectively in the tables below):

Progress

The following table details the progress actions for this activity. There are several times when you are presented with a choice that determines what actions you are able to take to complete the cycle. Initially, picking Whatever is necessary will open up both Watchful and Persuasive challenges, whereas the other two will limit you to one or the other. At Level 3, picking A former acquaintance of the Cheesemonger or The Dreaming Scholar will grant access to Persuasive and Watchful Challenges. Otherwise it will just be Persuasive.

Storylet	Challenge	Requirement	Success	Failure
Level 0
The Missing Woman
If you want something done well, do it yourself...	Automatic		SoaMW to 2 LiHPaL to 1
Whatever is necessary			SoaMW to 2 LiHPaL to 2
Conduct business from afar			SoaMW to 2 LiHPaL to 3
Level 2
Ask around Wilmot's End	Renown: The Great Game 10		+1 CP SoaMW
Your Own Eyes	Watchful 120	LiHPaL 1 or 2	+1 CP SoaMW	+1 CP Nightmares
The Agents and the Agents of the Agents	Persuasive 120	LiHPaL 2 or 3	+1 CP SoaMW	+1 CP Scandal
Less fierce than he looks Card	Luck: 20% chance	Drawn anywhere	+2 CP SoaMW	+1 CP SoaMW
Level 3
Who is she?
Millicent Clathermont	Automatic	Entwined in the Intrigues of the Clathermont Family exactly 8	SoaMW to 4 LiHPaL to 1
A former acquaintance of the Cheesemonger			SoaMW to 4 LiHPaL to 2
The Dreaming Scholar			SoaMW to 4 LiHPaL to 3
Level 4
A Charming Prussian Fellow	Persuasive 120		+1 CP SoaMW	+1 CP Scandal
The Surface Runner	Persuasive 120	LiHPaL 1 or 2	+1 CP SoaMW	+1 CP Scandal
The Professor of Antiquarian Esquivalience	Watchful 120	LiHPaL 2 or 3	+1 CP SoaMW	+1 CP Nightmares
A Dream about a Missing Woman Card	Luck: 20-30% chance	Drawn only in Wilmot's End	+2 CP SoaMW	+1 CP SoaMW

Rewards

Level 5 (All options reset SoaMW)
The End of a Search
Down to business	Automatic		+1 CP Dramatic Tension
The carpet bag			2 x Whirring Contraption
A friendly gesture		Dramatic Tension 1	4 x Strong-Backed Labour, 1 x Use of Villains
Millicent Clathermont		EitIotCF exactly 8 LiHPaL exactly 1	Entwined in the Intrigues of the Clathermont Family to 9

Analysis

The carousel is considered one of the best ways to obtain Whirring Contraptions for use in Publishing a Newspaper (Guide) at 5.5 actions/Contraption. Other than that, you can use it for raising Dramatic Tension for a different cash out. The whirring contraption has the highest epa at 1.09, but there are much better grinds.