The Dubiously Shrewd Rat's Guide to Fallen London
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Game Instructions: The Dubiously Shrewd Rat will give you guidance on helpful activities to pursue early in your time in Fallen London.
Unlocked with 
exactly 2
Storylet appears in 
Options:
You need what you don't have
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Success
Begging, 'borrowing', buying, and bartering
Success Instructions: You will receive a terrifying variety of items as you play Fallen London. Many of these will be useful for unlocking particular actions or pieces of content.
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A lot of the items that you need early on, you will find through play. Sometimes, you'll need more of something than you currently have. Unless you know where you can find more, you can often turn to the Bazaar - Marrigan's Exchange in particular carries a whole host of useful oddities. You can usually sell some of what you have to buy what you need.
Some things can't be bought - but many of them can be obtained by using less valuable items from your inventory. Trade jade for relics. Stay up all night talking with a respected scientist. Barter valuable souls. This is an important way to get your hands on more particular items.
You want to find new opportunities
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Not missing much
Success Instructions: Look for the storylet 'FIND NEW STORIES: Chat with the Local Gossip' in your lodgings. Return there from time to time if you seek new diversions.
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You've found somewhere better to live
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Look for somewhere more permanent to live.
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"See? This one has a much nicer sock drawer."
Success Instructions: Finding better Lodgings increases the number of Opportunity Cards you can keep in your hand, and can have other advantages! With enough wealth or the right connections, you can have your own hunting lodge, paddle-steamer or merchant's palace...
An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrew Rat: Lodgings' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
You've gained 2 x Ostentatious Diamond
You've honed your skills
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You need at least one skill to be 10 or higher. or 
You need at least one skill to be 10 or higher. or 
You need at least one skill to be 10 or higher. or 
You need at least one skill to be 10 or higher.
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"You're as wossname as a, um, other wossname."
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Highway Stats' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
You've gained 2 x Dubious Testimony
Watchful is increasing… (+5 CP, up to level 200 + 
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Shadowy is increasing… (+5 CP, up to level 200 + 
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Dangerous is increasing… (+5 CP, up to level 200 + 
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Persuasive is increasing… (+5 CP, up to level 200 + 
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You've sharpened your skills
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exactly 1 (hidden), At least one of your skills is 25 or higher or At least one of your skills is 25 or higher or At least one of your skills is 25 or higher or At least one of your skills is 25 or higher
Success
The teachings of rats
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Highway Stats' Quality is now 2! (hidden)
You've gained 1 x Extraordinary Implication- Watchful is increasing… (+15 CP, up to level 200 + )
- Shadowy is increasing… (+15 CP, up to level 200 + )
- Dangerous is increasing… (+15 CP, up to level 200 + )
- Persuasive is increasing… (+15 CP, up to level 200 + )
You've taken a strop to your skills and given them a razor's edge
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exactly 2 (hidden), At least one of your skills is 50 or higher or At least one of your skills is 50 or higher or At least one of your skills is 50 or higher or At least one of your skills is 50 or higher
Success
The Rat's turn to listen
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Highway Stats' Quality is now 3! (hidden)
You've gained 5 x Incendiary Gossip
You've gained 250 x Whispered Hint
You've begun making your name
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Investigate Ladybones Road to begin Making Your Name. or 
Investigate Spite to begin Making Your Name. or 
Investigate Watchmaker's Hill to begin Making Your Name. or 
Investigate Veilgarden to begin Making Your Name.
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Does it mean 'honey dens'?
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Golden Path' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
You've gained 125 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
You've made an acquaintance with a neighbour
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exactly 1 (hidden), 
You've made the acquaintance of the Loquacious Vicar 6 or 
You've made the acquaintance of the Clay Coalman 6 or 
You've made the acquaintance of the Bohemian Sculptress 6 or 
You've made the acquaintance of the Rooftop Urchin 6
Success
A matter of reputation
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Golden Path' Quality is now 2! (hidden)
You've gained 10 x Inkling of Identity
Your name is starting to be spoken
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Unlocked with exactly 2 (hidden), Your name is known, at least a little 1, Your name is known, at least a little 1, Your name is known, at least a little 1, Your name is known, at least a little 1
Success
"Did it have ears like this?"
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Golden Path' Quality is now 3! (hidden)
You've gained 2 x Partial Map
Your name weighs a little more every day
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exactly 3 (hidden), Your name is starting to mean something. 3 or Your name is starting to mean something. 3 or Your name is starting to mean something. 3 or Your name is starting to mean something. 3
Success
Bad memories?
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Golden Path' Quality is now 4! (hidden)
You've gained 250 x Cryptic Clue
You know why you are here
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Unlocked with 3 (hidden), 
You have begun your Ambition. May the stars smile upon you. or 
You have begun your Ambition. May the cards favour you. or 
You have begun your Ambition. Don't hestitate. or 
You have begun your Ambition. Good hunting.
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Unneeded?
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Ambition' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
You've been through the wringer
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Is it starting to hurt? or 
Are you sleeping well? or 
Are the things they say true? or 
Are they coming for you?
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"Poisonings, they're nasty. Ooh! And drowning's pretty bad, I hear."
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Menaces' Quality is now 1! (hidden)
You've gained 2 x Tale of Terror!!
You've unwrung yourself again
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exactly 1 (hidden)
Locked with Has it stopped stinging?, Is your sleep undisturbed once more?, Is it all starting to blow over?, Have they forgotten your face?
Success
What's that supposed to mean?
- An occurrence! Your 'Way of the Dubiously Shrewd Rat: Menaces' Quality is now 2! (hidden)
You've gained 1 x Thirsty Bombazine Scrap
Receive one last piece of advice
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(hidden), 3 (hidden), 4 (hidden), (hidden), 2 (hidden),
Success
So long
Success Instructions: Continue exploring the stories of Fallen London. Finish Making Your Name, pursue your Ambition, or just see what else the city has to offer. More and greater opportunities await for those who become A Person of Some Importance. Raise one of your skills to 100 and await a message from the Ambitious Barrister to get started.
You learned all there was to learn from the Dubiously Shrewd Rat. (Sets 
Acquaintance: The Dubiously Shrewd Rat to 3)
Out, d__n rat!
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