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A loved one is dead. Their murderer must be found, wherever they may hide.
See Category:Ambition: Nemesis for pages which require this quality (or specific levels of it), or click to show them.
Unlocked with
Main Attribute: 
Watchful and 
Dangerous
Edit
- Ambition: Nemesis - Forgotten Quarter - Mackay stored honey in the Forgotten Quarter.
- Ambition: Nemesis - Shuttered Palace - Many years before, Mackay delivered honey to the Shuttered Palace.
- Tragedy: Death of a Brother - Twenty heartbeats sooner, and you'd have heard his last words.
- Tragedy: Death of a Daughter - You couldn't protect her.
- Tragedy: Death of a Lover - And now you'll never know.
- Tragedy: Death of a Spouse - All those years, gone in a moment.
ProgressEdit
First stepsEdit
- Ambition: Nemesis 1
- Ambition: Nemesis 2
- Ambition: Nemesis 3
- Ambition: Nemesis 3a
- Ambition: Nemesis 4
- Ambition: Nemesis 4a
- Ambition: Nemesis 5
- Ambition: Nemesis 6 - Finding Mackay
- Ambition: Nemesis 7 - Reaching Mackay
- Ambition: Nemesis 8 - interrogating Mackay
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - who was it?
The Forgotten QuarterEdit
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - Forgotten Quarter
The Shuttered PalaceEdit
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - the Shuttered Palace
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - the Shuttered Palace 1
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - the Shuttered Palace 2
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - the Shuttered Palace 3
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - the Shuttered Palace 4
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - the Shuttered Palace 5 - the Cage-Garden
- Ambition: Nemesis 9 - the Shuttered Palace 6 - the Cage-Garden
- Ambition: Nemesis - the Shuttered Palace 7 - the Cage-Garden
- Ambition: Nemesis - the Shuttered Palace 8 - the Cage-Garden
The Tomb-Colony of VenderbightEdit
- Ambition: Nemesis 10: to the tomb-colonies?
- Ambition: Nemesis 11 - to Venderbight move to The tomb-colony of Venderbight
- Raise Ambition to 15 with storylet A woman of sinister repute or with Opportunities in Venderbight
- Ambition: Nemesis 15 - the Flowstone Forest
- Ambition: Nemesis 16 - the Grand Sanatorium
- Ambition: Nemesis 17 - Carrywell
- Ambition: Nemesis 18 - exploring the Grand Sanatorium
- Ambition: Nemesis 18 - the First Interpretation
- Ambition: Nemesis 19 - what is Carrywell up to?
- Ambition: Nemesis 20 - the Second Interpretation
- Ambition: Nemesis 21 - the Third Interpretation
- Ambition: Nemesis 22 - dealing with the assassin
- Ambition: Nemesis 23 - confronting Carrywell
Back in London:Edit
- Ambition: Nemesis 24 - learning about the Iron Republic
- Ambition: Nemesis 25 - Finding the Dreaming Scholar
- Ambition: Nemesis 26 - Meeting the Dreaming Scholar
- Ambition: Nemesis 27 - The Dreaming Spires
- Ambition: Nemesis 28 - A Dream of the Iron Republic
- Ambition: Nemesis 29 - Keep Dreaming
- Ambition: Nemesis 30 - The Analysis of Dreams
In the Iron Republic:Edit
- Ambition: Nemesis 31 - Tracking down a murderer
- Ambition: Nemesis 32 - The Prison
- Ambition: Nemesis 33 - Yellow Blood Day
- Ambition: Nemesis 34 - A Little Talk
- Ambition: Nemesis 35 - Scathewick No More
- Ambition: Nemesis 36 - A Knife and an Envelope
Back in London:Edit
- Ambition: Nemesis 37 - Seven Murders
- Ambition: Nemesis 38 - Scathewick's Accounts
- Ambition: Nemesis 40 - Narrowing the Field
- Ambition: Nemesis 45 - Unmasking your Nemesis
- Ambition: Nemesis 60 - the Glistering Spires
- Ambition: Nemesis 70 - Along the Rice-Paper Corridor
- Ambition: Nemesis 80 - Ascend to the Effulgent Galleries
- Ambition: Nemesis 90 - The Daybook!
Remembering Lilac:Edit
- 100: Finding Lilac
- 120: One Month Later
- 130: The Missing Month 1
- 135: The Missing Month 2
- 140: The Missing Month 3
- 150: Consulting your Bat
The Book of Red MurderEdit
A Cardinal Sin (Midnight's Honey)Edit
Fixing the MirrorEdit
Through ParabolaEdit
- 200: Ambition Nemesis – Through a Glass Darkly
- 220: Ambition Nemesis – A Guardian (2)
- 230: Ambition Nemesis – The Beggar's Wake
- 240: Dreamer's End
Finale/Climax: Mr. Cups' SanctumEdit
- 260: Ambition Nemesis – the Chambers of Mirrors and Cups
- 280: Ambition Nemesis – The Last Cup
- 300: Ambition Nemesis – To All Things, An End
- 320: Ambition Nemesis – Cups Raised
ChoicesEdit
(Editor's Note: If you have noticed the missing colons, these titles are exactly what they are in-game at this time of writing. Failbetter's writers did not exactly do their Quality Assurance well for this phase of the Ambition.)
AftermathEdit
The following message arrives if you killed your nemesis:
Time has passed since you murdered Mr Cups, and there has been neither hue nor cry. [..] Perhaps your identity remains unknown, or perhaps the other Masters are glad to see an end to Cups' schemes. But something nags at you [..] You have forgotten something. Maybe you can refresh your memory at your lodgings.
- An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: Nemesis' Quality is now 999!
This is followed by:
The following message arrives if you spared your nemesis:
An invitation on black vellum appears for you. It is hand-delivered by the Shivering Relicker, on her ruined cart, to your door. The text is in silver-leaf. It reads simply: "The Forgotten Quarter. The Amphitheater. All is prepared.
- An occurrence! Your 'Ambition: Nemesis' Quality is now 2000!
This is followed by:
Long-Term RewardsEdit
You get to hire the Esurient Smith.
- Hire in the Esurient Smith: The Esurient Smith is good at any project involving metals. His greater value is his Parabolan-self, which grants the most amount of Parabolan Research from Parabolan-selves of research assistants at this time of writing.
There are also the rewards that come every four weeks.
