Bizarre, Dreaded, Respectable (Guide)

Once you become A Person of Some Importance (POSI), a notability quality is assigned to your character. Certain professions and perks require you to accumulate higher levels of notability. Your Bizarre, Dreaded, and Respectable qualities allow for a reduction in the Making Waves cost required to gain notability using the following formula:

 Making Waves [20 - (B+D+R) + 4 * N]

For a list of specifically bizarre, dreaded or respectable items, see Bizarre Items, Dreaded Items and Respectable Items respectively.

This page lists all known BDR items, in order of total value, as well as

the items' Bizarre/Dreaded/Respectable nature,
the items' source locations, linked to their source storylets,
the components and story paths that are needed to obtain each item, from scratch (for a PoSI), and
any extra content each item unlocks.

For those who wish to be notable: optimize to your hearts' content.

Max item bonusesEdit

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In addition to bonuses from items, up to two points of Bizarre/Dreaded can be added from getting a Tattoo during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose (only one per year). Refusing a tattoo gives one point of Respectable, but is not repeatable and prevents getting a tattoo.

HatsEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements	Other uses
D BD	+2	Gifts from the Feast: Tanned Mask, Mouthless Amber Mask	Feast of the Exceptional Rose	During the Feast: 30 - 40 FATE
D		The Boatman's Hat	The Shallows	FATE
D		Anonymous White Mask, Zee-Stained and Mildewy	Fruits of the Zee Festival	During the Festival
B	+1	Set of Cosmogone Spectacles	Profession: Glassman	Notability 5 Specific professional requirements	Establish a Parabolan Base-Camp.
D		Tub of Gloam-Foam	Maywell's Hattery	40000 x Penny	Become An Invisible Eminence.
BD		Maywell's other Hats: Fecund Amber Tiara, Devilish Fedora, Snuffer's Face	Maywell's Hattery	40000 x Penny
D		Your Very Own Bandages!	Tomb-Colonists Faction items	Renown 25 5 Favours
B		Judgemental Hat	Timed Event
R		Indignant Bearskin	Election 1895, supporting the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner		The only Respectable Hat.
B		Corinthian Belfry Hat	Election 1895, supporting the Implacable Detective		Best in spot Shadowy hat.
D		Epicurean War-Helm	Election 1895, supporting Feducci		Best in spot Dangerous hat.

ClothingEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements	Other uses
B	+1	Moderately Co-operative Clothes Colony	Polythreme	A Ticket to Polythreme or a Ship and a Screaming Map A Battered Grey Overcoat
R		Academic Gown	The University	A Scholar of the Correspondence 1	Obtain a metamorphic sign of the chiropteromantic zodiac. Feast at Summerset (curing wounds and gaining whispered secrets - if you are not Unwelcome at the University).
R		Strange-Shore Parabola Frock, Strange-Shore Parabola Suit	The Cave of the Nadir	Access to the Cave of the Nadir.^[1] A Parabola-Linen Frock or a Parabola-Linen Suit
D		Anarchist's Sable, Neddy Suit	A visit from the Photographer or the Contrarian	Progress in Trailing the Affluent Photographer (with either Certifiable Scrap, or Secrets and friends).
D		Ratskin Suit	Gottery the Outfitter	11520 x Penny	Sartorial squeamishness
R		Parabola-Linen Frock, Parabola-Linen Suit	Fadgett & Daughters, Dauncey's	47000 x Penny	Obtain a strange-shore equivalent in the Nadir. Become a Legendary Charisma.
B R		Many of the Bazaar's other sartorial offerings	Gottery the Outfitter, Fadgett & Daughters, Dauncey's	2880 - 46080 x Penny

GlovesEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements
D	+1	Hand of Glory	Feast of the Exceptional Rose	During the Feast: 30 FATE
B		Pair of Lenguals	Dark & Savage	40000 x Penny
B		Chelatic Mitten	Docks Faction items	Renown 25 5 Favours
B		Constant Cufflinks	Urchins Faction items	Renown 25 5 Favours
B		Dire Appendage	The Rat-Catcher	45 FATE

WeaponsEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements	Other uses
D	+4	The Seven-Fold Knock	Seeking Mr Eaten's Name	Why? In God's name, why? What can you possibly hope to gain? Stop now. Before it's too late.	...
B BD D	+1, +2, +3	Gifts from the Feast: Box of Potentials, Terrifying Candies, Golden Spiked Rosary	Feast of the Exceptional Rose	During the Feast: 10 - 40 FATE
BD	+2	Iron Republic Journal	The Iron Republic	A Ship An Iron Republic Safe-Conduct (Buy this for 3 x Mark of Credit Pages and 1 x Brass Ring.)^[2] When in the Iron Republic: Changed by the Iron Republic 5
D		The Boatman's Lantern	The Shallows	FATE
D		Feducci's Lance (Replica)	Hallowmas 1895	HALLOWMAS FATE	Best in slot Dangerous Weapon
D		Private Debating Lessons with the Jovial Contrarian	Hallowmas 1896	HALLOWMAS FATE	Best in slot Persuasive Weapon
B D	+1	High-tier profession items: A Pot of Violant Ink, A List, Writ in Gant, A Crooked Cross, A Notched Bone Harpoon	Profession: Correspondent, Licentiate, Crooked-Cross, Monster-Hunter	Notability 5 Specific professional requirements
D		Mid-tier profession items: Memento of a Struggle, Discreet Firearm	Profession: Agent, Murderer	Notability 2 Specific professional requirements
B D		A Poisoned Pen, Polythreme Drinking Vessel	Mr Mirrors' Marquee of Mystification	Involvement in the Election of London's Mayor
B		A Seven-Times-Exiled Parliamentarian's Guide to Electioneering, A Mutton Island Account	Mr Mirrors' Marquee of Mystification	Involvement in the Election of London's Mayor, with 40-50 FATE
D		Blooded Knife	Ambition: Nemesis	Progress with Ambition: Nemesis (to 36)
B		Dilmun Club Lapel Badge	The Dilmun Club	A Visitor to the Dilmun Club.^[3] A gift for your sponsor.^[4]
R		Consonant Violin	A trade with the Numismatrix	5 x Mark of Credit Page ^[2]	A yuletide performance for Mr Sacks
B		Bejewelled Cane	The Keen-Eyed Lapidary's offer	Progress in Assisting a Keen-Eyed Lapidary (with Shard of Glim, mostly). Components: 1 x Ostentatious Diamond, 5 x Sapphire, 5 x Venom-ruby, 1 x Tasselled Walking-Stick	Nightmares -1 when equipped
B		Location of an Underground Organ	Flute Street	Renown 40 7 Favours
D		Unexploded Mine	Faction items	Renown 40 7 Favours

BootsEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements
D	+1	Pair of Kingscale Boots	MERCURY	45000 x Penny
D		Language of Laces	Revolutionaries Faction items	Renown 25 5 Favours
D		The Place Where they Bury the Bodies	Constables Faction items	Renown 40 7 Favours
R		Wax-Hardened Boots	Mr Mirrors' Marquee of Mystification	Involvement in the Election of London's Mayor as a campaigner
R		Defenestrating Boots	Criminals Faction items	Renown 25 5 Favours

CompanionsEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements	Other uses
BD	+4	Bifurcated Owl	An experiment in cryptozoological husbandry	An Established Scholar of the Unterzee 500 x Page of Cryptopalaeontological Notes A menagerie of monsters: 45 FATE, and a number of hunting trips ^[5]	'What does one do with a Bifurcated Owl?'
BD	+4	Übergoat	A tryst of the goatiest nature	1 FATE (to bar prying by non-goated eyes) 2 Overgoats (that shall be consumed)	Makes you a yet more significant Caprine Authority.
B	+3	Your Perpetually Festive Rubbery Friend	Helping a Rubbery Man at Christmas	12 FATE
BD	+2	Overgoat	Nassos Zoologicals	1 171 280 x Penny	bbbbRRRRRAAARRRGH! (gaining Wild Words, and, sometimes, Bazaar Permits) Grants you a certain Caprine Allure.
D		Bitter Saker Falcon	The Silver Tree Kickstarter (completed)	(no longer available)	Your Bitter Saker Falcon is restless...
BD		Unfinished Hat	Polythreme	A Ship An Exceptional Hat While in Polythreme: progress in An Unfinished Story
B		Horrid Imp	Profession: Conjurer	Notability 2 Specific professional requirements	Recruit urchins, helping any friends with Orphanages gain Making Waves.
D		Haunted Goldfish	Hallowmas	During Hallowmas: combine one Cheerful Goldfish with one The Illuminated Gentleman's Confession and one The Soft-Hearted Widow's Confession
B		Blemmigan Tourist
D		Iconoclastic Cryptanalyst	Hallowmas	During Hallowmas: combine one Sedulous Cryptanalyst with A Confession of Impropriety, A Confession of Pride, and A Confession of Guile
B D R	+1, +2	Companions for the courtly (the Young Lady excepted)	Feast of the Exceptional Rose	At the Feast: Masquing 40 -100 (essentially FATE - locked) Those of your companions who have lost themselves to the Nadir may find themselves renewed.
B D	+1	Quiet Deviless, Green-Eyed Devil	Your Sanctum or A visit to the Loquacious Vicar or The Feast of the Exceptional Rose	40 - 50 FATE At the Feast: Masquing 100 (essentially FATE-locked) Depending on the source, you may also need a Direful Reflection, a Portfolio of Souls, An Intimate of Devils 10, progress in Advising the Loquacious Vicar.	Learn of matters of mortality (if you have not yet completed Advising the Loquacious Vicar).
B		Pentecost Ape	Feast of the Exceptional Rose	1 x Malevolent Monkey At the Feast: Masquing 10
D		The Cat's Chiefest Claw	Feast of the Exceptional Rose	At the Feast: Masquing 10
B D		Gifts at the Feast: Rose-bearing Maggot, Luxuriantly Coiffed Sorrow-Spider, Blemmigan Pedant	Feast of the Exceptional Rose	During the Feast: 5 - 50 FATE
B		Dark-Carapaced Crustacean	Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow	Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow and a rat or monkey to feed it to.	Paint it gold with sunlight.
B		Parabolan Panther	Backing the Sunless Sea Kickstarter at the Pantherine Pack level, or beyond.	No longer available.	A Parabolan storyline.
B		Parabolan Kitten		A Parabolan Panther. Alternatively, a friend with a spare Kitten.	A twin kitten in Sunless Sea.
B D R		Rare pets: Rubbery Euphonium, Haunted-looking Dog, Salt Weasel	Spite or Veilgarden or Ladybones Road	Time: these cards are incredibly rare.	You may only keep one of these darlings.
R		Mid-tier profession items: Perspicacious Lurcher, Appreciation Society, Circle of Acolytes	Profession: Stalker, Author, Mystic	Notability 2 or (Exceptional Short Story and 5 x Favours: Bohemians) Specific professional requirements	Being an Author grants a weekly 38-174 CP of Making Waves, stored as Nights on the Town.
B D R		Fellow electioneers: A Reactionary Tomb-Colonist, An Enfranchised Anchoress, A Redoubtable Dame-Harbinger	Mr Mirrors' Marquee of Mystification	Involvement in the Election of London's Mayor.
B D R		Connected Pets	A Clandestine Rendezvous	Connected 5 for the relevant affiliation.	Each comes with its own opportunities. You may only have one at a time, but you may swap pets whenever you wish.
R		Midnight Matriarch	Nassos Zoologicals	40000 x Penny	Invite the Duchess to your Salon to gain Making Waves. Arbitrate between your rats and your cat. Betray your Midnight Matriarch, bringing the sound of footsteps ever closer. (Do not do this.)
D		Bengal Tigress	Nassos Zoologicals	45000 x Penny
B		Rubbery Associate, Rubbery Conspirator	Failbetter themselves.	'Feedback, bug-reporting or other assistance above and beyond the call of.'
B		Newly-Born Frost-Moth	Faction items	Renown 40 7 Favours
D		Rubbery Bellringer	Faction items	Renown 25 5 Favours
D		One Who Pulls the Strings	Faction items	Renown 40 7 Favours

AffiliationsEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements	Other uses
R	+4	Membership of God's Editors	Bazaar Side-Streets	Your own and others' published research, and favour with the clergy. See PoSI Item Crafting.	A Day with God's Editors (gives Proscribed Material and Church connections; cures nightmares and scandal)
R	+4	An Orphanage	Your Handsome Townhouse	A large amount of echoes. Deeds, permits, nurses. Oh, and orphans. See PoSI Item Crafting.	A reliable source of Making Waves
BR	+3	A Salon	Your Handsome Townhouse	The currency of Society: connections, a club, favours and recommendations. See PoSI Item Crafting.	A reliable source of Making Waves
D	+2	Gang of Hoodlums	Bazaar Side-Streets	Blood, treasure, and Criminal favours. See PoSI Item Crafting.	Involvement in The Life of Crime Assistance in your larcenous schemes A certain advantage in grinding Austere in the Iron Republic

TransportEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements	Other uses
DR	+4	Ratwork Velocipede	The Velocipede Squad	20 FATE On the Velocipede Squad 1	'Out and about on your Ratwork Velocipede...'
R	+3	A Heartwood Hearse	Feast of the Exceptional Rose	During the Feast: 30 FATE
B	+3	Semi-Automated Mary Lloyd	Fruits of the Zee Festival	During the Festival
D	+2	Obdurate Stallion	The Fourth Coil of the Labyrinth of Tigers	A Scholar of the Correspondence 1 20 FATE (paid to the Cloaked Stranger) Making Progress in the Labyrinth of Tigers 16 A hunting trip for the source creature.	'A pleasant day for a ride...' Perform further experiments in cryptozoological husbandry. Discover 'the terrible truth of the Bishop's plans'.
B		Clay Sedan Chair	Bazaar Side-streets	Candles, strong backs and a permit. See PoSI Item Crafting.	A day out in your Clay Sedan Chair
R		Respectable Landau	Bazaar Side-streets	Books of Hidden Bodies, and other leverage. See PoSI Item Crafting.	Once upon a time in a carriage

Home ComfortsEdit

BDR		Items	Source	Requirements	Other uses
DR	+2	An Entirely Non-Cult-Related Tea Set	The Ceremony	FATE
BR		A Clot of Malachite Flesh
BD		An Opal-Eyed Skeleton
R		Set of Martyr's Bones	FEAST OF THE ROSE	50 FATE
R		Portable Lamp-Post	Fallen London 10th Anniversary
D	+1	Shrine to Saint Joshua	Profession: Midnighter	Notability 5 Specific professional requirements	Being a Midnighter grants a weekly 4-120 CP of Making Waves, stored as Favour in High Places.
B D R		Probably a Coincidence, Ray-Drenched Correspondence Paperweight, Mostly Stuffed Bound Shark, The Khan's Tea Set, Luxury's Lap, A Brass-Framed Dark Mirror, A Semi-Autonomous Scrutinising Machine	An undisclosed elevation	At the threshold of the Nadir ^[6]^[1]:50 FATE Alternatively, at Christmas: 30 FATE
B D		A Painting entitled 'Self-Interest', A Painting entitled 'Ambition', A Painting entitled 'Contentment'	The Troubled Painter	Backing the Sunless Sea Kickstarter at the Corsair's Pack level, or beyond. (No longer available.)