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It's come to my attention that people do not grind Renown in this game, including a LOT of late game players (I'm not naming names, there's too many of you), and a lot of what I'm hearing is “it's not a fun active grind”. To which I say: Skill Issue- okay, well, no, but the thing is Renown and Favours are not meant to be an active grind. They are a grind of base accumulation. I gain Favours like I gain stuff in this game. If you aren't spending your favours to get stuff at locations in London, number just kind of generally go Up.
But that requires getting the Favours and I'm not sure people are aware of all the many ways to get those? Or they act like it's only on the Faction opportunity cards?
So this is going to cover two things: Resources of Favours, and reasons you should grind Renown.
To preface: I don't pretend this is all-encompassing on every way to get favours in the game. This will focus primarily on how I get favours in the game, and most of my methods are early to mid-game methods. Almost all of these are in London.
Faction Opportunity Cards
these can cost things, or give minor points of menace. Still, don't toss them. (Unless it's Bohemians. They want way too much wine.) Some notes:
Rubbery Favours can either forcibly cause Scandal, OR if you have Warm Amber, you can trade one nodule for a Favour with no Scandal involved. (there are a number of ways to grind warm amber. This is not the place to get into it)
While this technically isn't a faction card, the card The Seekers of the Garden, if you have finished Evolution, has an option that gives you Bohemian Favours and can also net you Society and Docks Favours. Costs 7 Zee-Stories
Additional outlier: getting Criminal Favours unlocks another card, An Implausible Penance, and you CAN turn three Criminal Favours into an Urchin Favour through it (Arson option, tip off Squatters). It's not a great exchange but if you're focusing Urchins, it is another method.
Parties in Veilgarden
Parties are 8 actions long. You are guaranteed at least one Society Favour, unless you are cashing out. This was also my Making Waves grind back when I cared about that.
Can grind Devil Favours, Rubbery Favours, Society Favours, and sometimes get a rare Dock Favour. Investigate the Attending a Party guide, but long story short: focus on opportunity cards there as well.
Connected Pets
Favour based off Faction you got the pet from. I have the Urchins pet.
Companions/Animals – Give their own Opportunity Cards that can give you a Favour
Alluring Accomplice: Criminal Favour for 5 Intriguing Snippets
Ruthless Henchman: Criminal Favour for 10 Romantic Notions (note, having both the Accomplice and Henchman can net a bad card- only get one of the two)
Sulky Bat: Great Game Favour for a Vision of the Surface
Winsome Orphan: Urchin Favour for 2 Memories of Distant Shore
An Agent of the Cheesemonger (AotC)
you just get to the point where you are in her employment, and then when the card shows up, you don't do what she wants, but inform the Faction instead.
the first level of working for Cheesemonger can net you these favours, and does not lower your AotC level
Rubbery Favours (50 percent chance tho)
Urchin Favours
Church Favours
Tomb Colony Favours
the second level of working for the Cheesemonger can net you these favours, and DOES lower you back to the first level of AotC, so you can loop back and forth basically
Rev Favours
Bohemian Favours
Society Favours
Docks Favours
Clubs
Sophia's: Tomb Colonist Favour for a Kat Tox check
Clay Tailor: Rev Favour for a Mithridacy check
Young Stags: 2 Society Favours AND a Bohemian Favour for 500 Rostygold
Professions
An Earnest of Payment gives a favour from two different factions based on Profession. Not to be relied on as a fast method, since it's once a week, but it's a slow bonus. Here's a page that tells you all the weekly rewards.
Regretful Soldier gives Favours: The Docks, Favours: Constables
Sardonic Music-Hall Singer gives Favours: Bohemians, Favours: Society
Wry Functionary gives Favours: Society, Favours: The Great Game
(Unrelated: I still don't have the Forger. Ough.)
Velocipede
Constable Favour for 5 Maniac's Prayers
Calendrical Confusion
A Society Favour with a Persuasion Check
Carousels/Lab
Boxful of Intrigue
I don't fuck with Boxful of Intrigue
I know it exists I did it a little for Urchins but I truly could not care less
I have four other means of urchin favours in my deck.
Graduating a Gifted Student nets a Society Favour
Shoutouts: You can supposedly get Rev favours from the re-opened University Carousel and Doubt Street, and Criminal Favours through Boxful of Intrigue. I don't use these! But they exist. People are free to add more because I know there's more, but these? These are what I use. These are almost all accessible to a POSI player without Railway or anything.
Hell, want some more options? Here's a guide. I didn't even use it to make this.
As for Renown itself: why care about Renown? Well, couple reasons:
Most of the 25 Renown Items unlock special options, or new cards, in the Upper River area and in a couple other places:
Defenestrating Boots (Upper River and Investigating the Clay Highwayman)
Language of Laces (Calendrical Confusion, Upper River)
Seal of St Joshua (Moonlit Woods option to gain time)
Hellish Hymn (Brass Embassy Activity from Hell is Missing Estival on Moloch Street) (Plus a LOT of Upper River card options. Like eight whole things. Look)
Rubbery Bellringer (Could help you find Helicon House, if you haven't)
Unnassuming Judge (Upper River)
The Teeth of St George! (Upper River)
Chap on the Corner (Investigating the Clay Highwayman) (Another card that gets you 5 Hinterland Scrip but you can't get if your Rubbery Renown is 16+)
Chelatic Mitten (Upper River)
Your Very Own Bandages! (Upper River)
Constant Cufflinks (Upper River)
Some of the 40 Renown Items also unlock additional options in places. Most of them are Best In Slot, save for seasonal items, but then if you have better items you can give these to Agents.
Oeneric Key (Free Entry to Helicon House +2 Fitting In, BIS Shadowy Home Comfort)
Place Where They Bury the Bodies (BIS Shadowy Boots)
Location of an Underground Organ (Free Entry to Helicon House +2 Fitting In, BIS Non-Fate Persuasive Weapon)
Most Humbling Expression of Her Majesty's Esteem (BIS Persuasive Transport)
Beatific Stone (Risen Burgundy, BIS Persuasive Home Comfort)
The Great Game (Gives a Rewards for Correspondence option) (it's not great, ironically)
What Might Be a Thunderbolt (Upper Airs, Risen Burgundy, some BaL options, BIS Shadowy Weapon)
Some high Renown scores unlock additional options in other places
Attending a Party 15 Bohemians or 15 Society unlocks an easy check
Slowcakes card Society Renown 25 will let you trade Society Favours for free Making Wavings
Higher Bohemian Renown or Rubbery Renown makes checks at Helicon House easier
High Criminal Renown needed for the Upper River Twilit Smuggler thing
50 Criminal Renown and 50 Constable Renown gets an option for unlocking Paramount Presence (why would you do this?)
Basically, this part of the guide breaks down what unlocks at what level of Renown for each Faction
some are more useful than others.
The thing I find obnoxious about grinding Renown is mostly how much it costs. As you increase your renown, you require more Favours to raise it further, and then items as well. It's an Echo investment, I won't lie. Plus the checks get harder with increasing levels and you get menaces for success as well as failure. It impacts quirks, if you care about that sort of thing. Rev Renown increases Liberation of Night (some of you might know the Tailor's feelings on that and the actions they take to counteract it, lol).
But honestly I get to a point where I have all these Favours and I don't really have much else to DO with them. I could go get some stuff, I guess? But I might as well grind for these really good options.
I've been playing for roughly a year and a half (a little less), and have most of my Renown scores to 40, and I'm getting really close with the ones that are not 40! Except my Criminal Renown. (And Corsairs, but that's a weird one.)
I do, genuinely, recommend grinding it. I don't mean ACTIVELY grind it, however- take advantage of just using your Opportunity Deck and letting things collect over time. There is no rush on this game.
But seriously consider getting those Renown scores up. You really don't know what options you just haven't been able to see because they are item-locked!
for anyone who DOESN'T know how to turn favours into renown (which im sure someone here may not know), let me explain!
(none of this applies to fingerking favours.)
You can have up to 7 favours from a faction. Once you HAVE 7 favours, you can use an item (a different one for every faction) to convert those favours into renown. They each cost echoes to buy and aren't used up by the grind but you have to buy a bunch of other items for the checks which ARE, which is annoying, but that's kind of the only way to increase renown so that's how it is. the items are as follows:
Hell: bright brass skull
Bohemians: ornate typewriter
Constables: antique constable's badge
Revolutionaries: red-feathered pin
Church: tiny jewelled reliquary
Docks: engraved pewter tankard
Criminals: old bone skeleton key
Rubbery: nodule of pulsating amber
Society: entry in slowcake's exceptionals
Great game: copper cipher ring
Tomb-colonists: diary of the dead
Urchins: rookery password
i wont list what items they need because they all need different items.
Note: Very early levels of Renown do not require all 7 Favours- the amount scales from 3, to 5, to all 7. HOWEVER, even in those early phases, the more Favours you turn in at once, the more Renown CP you will gain.
Yes! Also, if you use Chrome or a Chrome-based OS, you can make use of extensions for a bit of QOL here.
My two favourites are:
Fallen London Favourites - Lets you mark story options and opportunity cards as green or red - I tag all the opp cards that I know have a favour option on them as green so that I can easily discard useless cards. And then I tag the option on that card that gives the favour so I know to pick the right one.
(Note, it doesn't actually stop you from discarding discardable cards, it's literally just a coloured highlight. Forgive me, I'm at zee at the moment)
FL Small Mercies - (I'm pretty sure it's this one) this can add your favour counts to the sidebar like so:
So that you can keep an easy eye on them and know when you need to cash in.
In many ways Seeking Mr Eaten's Name is a surrender of the self to the hungry void of an excised ghost. To be overwritten, to carry someone else's message. To defy erasure through transformation, even as the self is erased. You are a candle.
transcript of the poem under the cut
seven is the number
of deaths
of weeping
of shackles
of stains
seven is the number
of lights
of sleeping
of candles
of pains
seven is the number
of appetites
unsated
seven is the number
of suffering
unabated
seven is the number
of threads
broken
seven is the number
of syllables
unspoken
seven marks
the flesh
seven marks
the mind
seven marks
the soul
seven is the number
all and whole
hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.
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Do you suppose it's fashionable in (Fallen) London to make up your face to look like you've been in the sun?
In the actual period, of course, being as fair as possible was desirable in England--the upper classes going so far as to walk around with parasols and wide-brimmed hats, or earlier in the century, cloth masks, and there was, of course, always the option to simply powder one's face. All these things were representative of wealth--not needing to labor outdoors, being able to afford powders and fanciful hats and such. But in the Neath, out of the sun, everyone is paler than those on the Surface. Maybe it would be more fashionable to try to look sun-kissed? Heavy blush might become popular. Darker powders to make skin look tanned or more robust. Again--all symbolic of wealth. Can you afford these cosmetics? Do you have the time and light and mirrors or a servant to apply them?
It might not be all that popular among the Bazaarines or the Nocturnals, but the Celestials? The nobility still clinging to the power and influence of the Surface? I can see it becoming a cornerstone of fashion.
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You might assume The Bazaar simply Does Not "Get" Humans in the way many other alien/vast/ancient/cosmic entities in Fallen London struggle with. That The Bazaar views humans as ants, purely lesser beings, that she struggles to understand their emotions and why they are often angry about the whole 'buying a city and all the people within, exploiting them, and grinding them up when she's done'.
But! Here's the thing. This is not the case, and that's worse :)
I think on some level The Bazaar does struggle as an alien entity to fully relate to the human experience, BUT, it is rather key to her grand ambition that she very much recognises and understands the value and power of human lives and emotions. The Bazaar is taking the love stories of people she has acquired and she sometimes killed and using it as the ink to write a forbidden Message to save her beloved. The stories must be true. A single story could matter as much as a hundred. For this to be possible the Bazaar must be capable of seeing human love stories as parallel to her own emotions— that's exactly why they're so important!
But The Bazaar has an ambition, and won't be stopped. She's torn off parts of her body, broken so many laws, bought a lobotomy, learned forbidden science— the Bazaar knows people are people, but it will not be stopped, because it is very much in love. Millions of deaths is a small price to pay for that one life.
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