#making your name

[the-avaricious-meddler]

Writing a short story and Archaeology both suck but at least with short stories you're only required to do it once for making your name. You have to get to Archaeology 3 and *then* do tomb of the seven to get through that portion of Alphabet. (Plus criminals favors are a requirement since a thieves' cache is the only expedition available at archaeology 1)

[henryseeksthename-blog]

The courier: A conclusion

As it turns out, the courier isn’t giving this information to agents of foreign powers. Well, at least not per the urchin that I tracked, who knows what else she does. This particular one has been feeding information from the surface to a woman they call Madame Shoshana. Styles herself a fortune-teller and all that jazz. I might never have found out about her if I didn’t get paid for this, I’m not a carnival kind of person. Anyways, I told the constabulary. They seemed disappointed, to say the least. At least we could hang an anarchist, one of them said. Seems like Shoshana has more influence than a carnie fraud should have. But what’s it to me? I got my payment. First stop, food. And then an apothecary.

[henryseeksthename-blog]

The box in the pantry

I snuck in and nabbed the box, the Assassin made sure the Constables didn’t bust us, then we retreated to my flat and pried it open. Turns out that someone in the well-to-do family has been keeping scandalous materials in there, daguerrotypes and toys and such. I didn’t know what to do with that. The Assassin suggested blackmail, or turning the stuff in to the Ministry of Public Decency in the hopes of a reward. I’m no friend of the Ministry, but blackmailing those folks would take a while more and I’ve already stolen from them twice, so I’ve decided to go with the latter. They’ll probably set it on fire.

[colinmallory]

It was in fact hilarious. That damnable empress looked like she would have poisoned me with cantigaster venom if possible. One member of the court saw me on the way out and pointed me out to the soldiers. If the special Constables and the Ministry can't catch me, the soldiers couldn't. That's not to say they didn't put up a good attempt, a low dirigible is all that stopped me from falling into the river after my detour through the flit ended with a bullet cutting the bridge I was on.

They seemed to think I would stay on the dirigible. But, I am not an idiot, at first, I tried the saner option, aiming for the roof of a tall dock building, planning to run to my Zubmarine, but their was a small army waiting there, so, I instead jumped on the outside of a tomb-ship as it pulled off. When I had climbed aboard I apologized for my trespass and offered to pay. The captain simply asked why I was in such a rush to get to the tomb colonies, and so, with an hour of preparation and what was left of my scripts, I organized a few old colonists from the fourth city into a performance. If only Feducci was on the ship, I would have cast him as the consort and made him a part of the most realistic opera death ever.

[maybesdaughter]

"Making Your Name" story conclusions are the most reliable way to increase quirks above level 10 or 12. Too bad they're not repeatable. Losing quirks is as easy as one misclick.

A name in seven secret alphabets 7 - ruthless, magnanimous, daring, and melancholy choices.

Maybe my next alt should be melancholy.