Copper Cipher Ring

Category: Great Game
0.50	Moves in the Great Game
12.50	Vital Intelligence
37.50	Copper Cipher Ring
-	Epaulette Mate
-	Queen Mate
-	Stalemate
-	Vienna Opening

Intricate little interlocking wheels let you code and decode messages. And make delightfully satisfying little clicking sounds.

[Use this to increase your Renown: The Great Game quality by spending Favours: The Great Game. You can also gain Favours: The Great Game with Fate by using the ring.]

See Copper Cipher Ring Sources on how to obtain this item, or click  here  to show them.

It can be purchased from ​⁠ Nikolas Pawnbrokers and sold to the Bazaar.

Buying	40.00
Selling	37.50	(no message)

 

See Category:Copper Cipher Ring for pages which require this item, or click  here  to show them.

Practise with your Copper Cipher Ring

It's impossible not to fiddle with the thing.

Do something slightly risky (5 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  

  Locked with 7 x Favours: The Great Game 

  Success

  No reward information available for Fate-locked actions.

  ^

Play coded chess with an anonymous opponent

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Watchful 250, Subtle 12-14
   

  Success

  Impossible designs

  • Subtle is increasing… (+15 CP)
  • Forceful is dropping… (-15 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Copper Cipher Ring

  ^

Acquire a very particular ink

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with 3 x Favours: The Great Game
  Locked with Renown: The Great Game 8 

  Success

  Ordering off-menu

  • Your 'Favours: The Great Game' Quality has gone!
  • Renown: The Great Game is increasing… (+1 CP per Favour lost)
  • Watchful is increasing… (+10 CP)

  ^

Arrange a soiree on neutral ground

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with 15 x Bottle of Morelways 1872, 2 x Compromising Document, Renown: The Great Game 8-14, 5 x Favours: The Great Game
   

  Success

  Lighthearted fun

  • Renown: The Great Game is increasing… (+2 CP per Favours: The Great Game lost)
  • Your 'Favours: The Great Game' Quality has gone!
  • Persuasive is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • Scandal is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • You've lost 2 x Compromising Document
  • You've lost 15 x Bottle of Morelways 1872

  ^

Piece together a forgotten match

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Persuasive (Renown x 6), 7 x Favours: The Great Game, Renown: The Great Game 15, 25 x Bottle of Morelways 1872, 5 x Tale of Terror!!, 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip, 1 x Stolen Kiss, 1 x Mourning Candle
   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Persuasive 108
  || 74 - very chancy (41%) || 92 - chancy (51%) || 110 - modest (61%) || 128 - very modest (71%) || 146 - low-risk (81%) || 164 - straightforward (91%) || 180 - straightforward (100%)
  

  Persuasive, Broad-type challenge with base difficulty of 6 for every Renown level. The above example is at Renown level 18.

  
  

  Success

  Cut down on the seventh

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • Renown: The Great Game is increasing… (+28 CP)
  • Your 'Favours: The Great Game' Quality has gone!
  • Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Mourning Candle
  • You've lost 1 x Stolen Kiss
  • You've lost 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
  • You've lost 5 x Tale of Terror!!
  • You've lost 25 x Bottle of Morelways 1872
  • Melancholy is increasing… (+5 CP, up to level 15)
  • Ruthless is dropping… (-5 CP)

  Failure

  A waste

  • Persuasive is increasing…
  • Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
  • You've lost 1 x Tale of Terror!!
  • You've lost 2 x Bottle of Morelways 1872

  ^