Ambition: Heart's Desire!

Progress in looking for a notorious card game in which you can stake your soul and win your heart's desire.

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Unlocked with

• Ambition: Heart's Desire! 0

Main Attribute: Watchful and Persuasive

Substories related to the main AmbitionEdit

• Heart's Desire: Scrawled Notes on the Walls
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - The Bishop of St Fiacre's
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King
• Ambition: A Marvellous Deck
• Ambition: A Marvellous Venue
• Gregory Beechwood

Ambition: Heart's DesireEdit

0. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 0
1. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 1
2. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 2 and Ambition: Heart's Desire! 2b
3. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 3 and Ambition: Heart's Desire! 3b
4. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 4
5. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 5
6. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 6
7. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 7
8. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 8
9. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 9
10. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 10
11. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 11
12. Ambition: Heart's Desire! 12 (Continues in Ambition: Heart's Desire - The Bishop of St Fiacre's)

The Bishop of St Fiacre'sEdit

• Ambition: Heart's Desire - The Bishop of St Fiacre's 1
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - The Bishop of St Fiacre's 2
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - The Bishop of St Fiacre's 3
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - The Bishop of St Fiacre's 4 and Speak to the manager about... (Continues in Ambition: Heart's Desire! (The Flit) or Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King)

The Topsy KingEdit

• Ambition: Heart's Desire! (The Flit) and Heart's Desire - the Topsy King
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 1
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 2
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 3 (and the Spy on the Raggedy Men 3 branch of A fine day in the Flit)
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 4
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 5
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 6
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 7
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 8
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 9
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 10
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 11
• Without 'Inciting a Simian Revenge?': Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 12a
  With 'Inciting a Simian Revenge?': Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 12b
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 13
• Heart's Desire - the Topsy King's Sister
• Heart's Desire - Desperate Intentions
• Heart's Desire - Double or Nothing
• Approach the Merry Gentleman
• Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Topsy King 19
• Heart's Desire - the Price of Desire
• Heart's Desire - Back to the Bale
• Heart's Desire - Tapping the Baton OR Tristram Bagley's unfinished masterpiece
• Heart's Desire - A Night at the Opera
• Heart's Desire - The Morning After
• Heart's Desire - Back to the Manager (Continues in Ambition: Heart's Desire 13)

Convincing the Other PlayersEdit

13. Heart's Desire - Seeking the Manager's Beloved
14. Heart's Desire - Gaining an Audience
15. Heart's Desire - Meeting the King
16. Heart's Desire - Walking in the Garden
17. Heart's Desire - The End of Memory
18. - 110. Ambition: Heart's Desire - the King's Heart
100. - 105. Ambition: Heart's Desire - Completing the King
120. - 160. Ambition: Heart's Desire - Virginia
150. Ambition: Heart's Desire - the Prince's Prison
170. - 200. Ambition: Heart's Desire - Mr Pages
210. Ambition Heart's Desire – A Marvellous Conversation with Mr Pages

A Marvellous VenueEdit

• Discuss the venue: Ask Mr. Pages
• Ambition: Meet with the Topsy King: Ask the Topsy King
• Ambition: Meet Virginia at Dante’s Grill: Ask Virginia
• Ambition: Meet with the Manager of the Royal Bethlehem: Ask the Manager of the Hotel
• Ambition: Meet with the Monkey: Ask the Monkey
• Ambition: Meet the Bishop of St Fiacre's: Ask the Bishop of St. Fiacre's Church
• Ambition: Choosing the Venue

A Marvellous DeckEdit

10. - 14. Ambition: Storridges Printing House
17. - 20. Ambition – Enter Parabola
17. - 20. Ambition: Prepare to Travel the Wanting Way
30. The Writhing River
40. The Other Base Camp
40. The Musings of the Heart
50. Down the Gullet
60. The Root of Need
70. - 80. The Yearning Custodian
90. The River Runs Backwards

Learning about the Previous WinnersEdit

210. Ambition: Preparing for the Honour

• Piece your clues together (to locate October)
  • Ambition – Finding October
• Piece your clues together (to locate Gregory Beechwood)
  • Ambition – A Visit to All Christs (starts a side story about Gregory Beechwood)
• Piece your clues together (to locate His Amused Lordship)
  • Search for His Amused Lordship
    • Heart's Desire: Speak to His Amused Lordship, option under the The Seekers of the Garden card

Side Story: Gregory BeechwoodEdit

• Ambition – The Beechwood Archive
• Gregory Beechwood (stage 310 of Ambition, after the Honour)
• Ambition – 'Moral Selection'

The HonourEdit

250. Heart's Desire: Attend the Honour (after going to Arbor's Temple district)
260. Ambition – Opening Hands
280. The Honour: the Late-Game
290. Ambition – The Victors

Interlude: The Monkey & VirginiaEdit

300. Heart's Desire: Awaiting the Next Bout

Your Assigned OpponentEdit

Interlude 2: The Monkey & VirginiaEdit

400. Ambition – Escort your Monkey to Moloch Street Station

After, you have to wait 24 real-time hours for the outcome of the match between the Manager and whoever he was matched with. Then, this message (Waiting for the Next Bout) appears in your inbox.

Interlude 3: Outcome of Other MatchEdit

The Manager of the HotelEdit

500. Wait upon Mr Pages' decision
510. Consider the Manager
520. Ambition – Addressing Some Confusion
560. Ambition – Preparing to Face the Manager of the Royal Bethlehem
     • Heart's Desire: an Incursion of Red and Gold: A very unpleasant card that gives you Nightmares and lose a lot of Nevercold Brass; the solution to this is an action under the same card.
     • Ambition – Arm Yourself Against the Garden of Nightmares
560. Ambition – Face the Manager of the Royal Beth
600. Ambition – The Garden of Nightmares
620. Ambition – The Manager's Chance
630. Ambition – Leaving the Garden of Nightmares

Interlude 4: Mr Pages MeddlingEdit

631. Ambition – A Further Interruption
632. Ambition: A Master's Wrath
633. Ambition – Your Monkey is ready to play Mr Pages
638. -639 Ambition – Gather Your Thoughts
640. -660 Ambition – an Esteemed Visitor
670. Ambition – Preparing for the Final Match
680. Train with other players (you need 3)
     • The requirements of each training is listed here
     • Note that Mr Page's training also give out the unique A Dream of Truth-Strangling, so might be worth taking

Here would be a good moment, just before the final game, to visit the Boatman, to collect the final advice and unique item A Bestiary of the Hearts' Desires, if you want it.

• Get your Wounds to 8, you can use Call in a favour from Virginia to help move you to A boat trip.
• While "dead", talk to the Boatman
• With all advices in hand, Assemble a Compendium of the Heart's Desires

The Final MatchEdit

700. Ambition – in the Heart of the Bazaar
700. Opening Plays: Power
720. Developing Play: Love
730. The Game Matures: Time
740. The Endgame: Escape
750. Ambition – Your Last Chance
760. Beechwood's Chance

The Conjunction of GiftsEdit

780. Mr Hearts' Congratulations
800. Ambition – The Conjunction of Gifts
1900. Ambition – Beechwood's Heart's Desire

AftermathEdit

The following cards can be drawn after The Conjunction of Gifts

• Ambition – Cora Bagley, Again (Winning path)
• Ambition – An Encounter with Cora Bagley (Losing path)