Unlikely customers

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From: Barter your Correspondence Plaques

What on earth do these scruffy street-children want with lead sheets engraved with primal sigils? And more importantly, what will they pay you?

Game Instructions: This will always gain you Aeolian Screams. It may have other effects.

Unlocked with 50 x Correspondence Plaque, 1 x Favours: Urchins

Challenge information

A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 60%)

Success

A rooftop revel

[...] the steaming rat-puddings are here. These urchins eat well, at least the ones in the more organised gangs do. Though when they each throw a rat into the air as 'the Masters' portion', none of the rats come down again.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• You've lost 1 x Favours: Urchins
• You've lost 50 x Correspondence Plaque
• You've gained 10 x Aeolian Scream
• You've gained 200 x Rat on a String

Rare Success

So that's how they make it

In a rickety tin shed in a back street in Spite, urchins weave secrets into wonders [...] their results are beautiful and elaborate. A tiny oasis of colour in the grey fog.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• You've lost 1 x Favours: Urchins
• You've lost 50 x Correspondence Plaque
• You've gained 10 x Aeolian Scream
• You've gained 2 x Puzzle-Damask Scrap

Failure

Curiously businesslike

A bat-clouded rooftop, above the city and below the Flit. 'Right you are, guv. Wiv this lot, we'll 'ave more of them 'ard words than even the Knotted Sock does! Clever Bill 'as written down where you need to be to 'ear the sky sing...'

• You've lost 1 x Favours: Urchins
• You've lost 50 x Correspondence Plaque
• You've gained 10 x Aeolian Scream