The Cheesemonger (Guide)
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This is the combined guide to and . These storylines grant you The Great Game: A Fine Piece in the Game, if you choose to complete them, or several opportunities to gain Favours if you choose not to.
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This storyline is advanced entirely through opportunity cards. You can get the first level by talking to the Gossip in your Lodgings (The first move in a Game), but the opportunity cards require 3.
Card | Action | Challenge and cost | Additional reward |
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Level 0/1 - Each option also gives 1 CP | |||
An Evening of Drink and Intrigue | That group nursing a bottle near the fireplace... | ||
A Day at the Library | A bookmark | 30 | |
Thief! | After him! | 30 | |
A Little Eavesdropping | Follow them | 30 | |
Level 2 - Each option also gives 1 CP | |||
The Cheesemonger? | Spies and couriers | 30 | |
What do the urchins know? | Perhaps dinner will do the trick | ||
Who knows the Cheesemonger? | Ask about the Cheesemonger | 30 | |
Level 3 - Each option also gives a level of | |||
Out of a job | Cutting a deal | 1 x The Great Game | |
The spy with the hat | Strolling at a discreet distance | 40 | |
Level 4 - Choosing an option gives | |||
The sign of the looped wire | Just who are you? | 40 |
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A well-known piece in the Game | 6 |
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This storyline is done partly through opportunity cards and partly through storylets. The first sections are particularly good for gaining favours.
Freelancing for the Cheesemonger[edit]
These cards are unlocked with 40 in a main attribute. The initial group of cards requires 1-3 levels of ; a advanced set of cards is available from levels 4-5. The actions on them all follow the same basic pattern.
- Spy: The work you're actually told to do. These are attribute challenges with Broad difficulty of either 40 or 48. Success pays and gives .
- Tipoff: Warn the target about the Cheesemonger. Gives a Favour from the associated faction. On the advanced cards from levels 4-5, costs .
- Resign. Appears only on the advanced cards at 4-5. Returns the story to 4.
This section of the story is highly profitable, as Favours are very valuable, either for direct profit or for Renown. Tipoffs don't give menaces or cost resources, either, unlike normal faction card options. Keeping the story here is worth considering simply for easy access to Favours, which only grow in value as you unlock more uses for them.
Card | Spy Challenge | Favour type |
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Unlocked at level 1–3 | ||
A Task from the Cheesemonger | 40 | 1 x Urchins |
A Commission from the Cheesemonger | 48 | 0-1 Rubbery Men |
A Job from the Cheesemonger | 48 | 1 x Tomb-Colonies[1] |
An Assignment from the Cheesemonger | 48 | 1 x Church |
Unlocked at level 4–5 | ||
A Deed for the Cheesemonger | 40 | 1 x Society |
A Mission from the Cheesemonger | 48 | 1 x Docks |
An Errand for the Cheesemonger | 48 | 1 x Bohemians |
An Undertaking from the Cheesemonger | 48[2] | 1 x Revolutionaries |
Work at the Cheesemonger's Shop[edit]
Opportunity card
Opportunity card
- 11 - The Valet
There is an option in this storylet to resign. As before, this resets your progress in the story to 4.
Opportunity cards
- 16 - After the Cipher
- 17 - The Spy and the Cipher
There is one last opportunity here to resign from the Cheesemonger's service, returning all the way to 4. This time it will cost . After this, the story cannot be reset.
Conspiracy at the Cheesemonger's Home[edit]
- 18 - An... Invitation?
- 22 - Murder the Controller of the French Network
- 23 - Murder the Controller of the Russian Network
- 24 - Clean up the Rest of the Spies
Epilogue[edit]
A Fine Piece in the Game[edit]
Congratulations: you are now A Fine Piece in the Game! The quality is needed for several things:
- One option for becoming
- One of two ways to get Profession:
- Profession:
- from
- A tattoo option
Plus, you get 2 free Fate when you finish the storyline and get this quality.