Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow

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It's a little different from most of the gluey slush in the streets...

[A WARNING! This will melt when winter passes! Use it soon.]

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A Pail of So-Called Snow

It's noticeably different from most of the 'snow' in the streets. It has an oilier lustre, and the smell is not quite the same: ammonia, but touched with oil of roses. There is no indication at all that the stuff is safe. The wisest thing to do would be to dispose of it.

So what will you do?

Game Instructions: This will melt when winter passes! Use it by mid-January.

The Oracle of the Lintel

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 1
  Locked with The Mark of Destiny, Obscurity 6 

  Success

  An awkward sleeping-place

  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre drops by 1.
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow

  Redirects to: The Gate of Tears

  ^

The Oracle of the Lintel: Reprise (25 FATE)

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 1, The Mark of Destiny
  Locked with Obscurity 6 

  Success

  No reward information available for Fate-locked actions.

  ^

Eat it

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
   

  Challenge information

  A matter of luck: The odds are strongly against you here (success chance: 30%)

  
  

  Success

  What goes down...

  • You've gained 1 x Touching Love Story
  • Wounds is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +2 (up to level 5)

  Failure

  Fevered delirium

  • You've gained 1 x Tale of Terror!!
  • Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +1 (up to level 3)

  ^

Feed it to a Talkative Rattus-Faber

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, 1 x Talkative Rattus Faber, Ruthless 4
   

  Challenge information

  A matter of luck: A long shot...but you might win (success chance: 10%)

  
  

  Success

  Silence at last

  • You've lost 1 x Talkative Rattus Faber
  • You've gained 1 x Dark-Carapaced Crustacean
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +2; up to level 6

  Failure

  An unfortunate effect

  • You've lost 1 x Talkative Rattus Faber
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow

  ^

Dip a soul in it

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, Renown: Urchins 5, 1 x Soul
   

  Success

  That was... striking

  • You've gained 1 x Appalling Secret
  • You've lost 1 x Soul
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • [Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +1 level; up to level 5]

  ^

Dispose of it

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
   

  Success

  Hardly a splash

  • Nightmares is dropping… (-3 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow

  Alternative Success

  "A little night-music"

  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies is increasing… (+1 CP; up to level 2)
  • Nightmares is dropping… (-2 CP)

  ^

Dump it on the fire

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus 10, 4 x Tale of Terror!!, Uncovering the Secrets of the Face-Tailor 3
   

  Challenge information

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

  
  

  Success

  A cloud of stinking steam

  • You've lost 4 x Tale of Terror!!
  • You've gained 1 x Antique Mystery
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +2; up to level 3

  Failure

  Shivering and cursing

  • You've lost 4 x Tale of Terror!!
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow

  ^

Scent your pillow with it

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, 4 x Memory of Distant Shores, An Experienced Zailor 1
   

  Challenge information

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

  
  

  Success

  A glass, darkly

  • You've gained 1 x Puzzling Map
  • You've lost 4 x Memory of Distant Shores
  • Nightmares is increasing… (+1 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Seeing through the Eyes of Icarus is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +1; up to level 4

  Failure

  Deep and dark and even

  • You've lost 4 x Memory of Distant Shores
  • Persuasive is dropping… (-5 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • You've gained 10 x Cryptic Clue

  ^

Feed it to a Malevolent Monkey

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, 1 x Malevolent Monkey, Ruthless 4
   

  Challenge information

  A matter of luck: The odds are strongly against you here (success chance: 30%)

  
  

  Success

  A sinister metamorphosis

  • You've lost 1 x Malevolent Monkey
  • You've gained 1 x Dark-Carapaced Crustacean
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +2 levels; up to level 5

  Failure

  A sort of rebellion

  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • You've lost 100 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey
  • You've lost 1 x Mourning Candle
  • You've lost 200 x Foxfire Candle Stub
  • You've lost 10 x Moon-pearl
  • You've lost 20 x Bundle of Ragged Clothing
  • You've lost 1 x Bottle of Muscaria Brandy

  ^

Mix it with an old wine

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844, 1 x Extraordinary Implication
   

  Challenge information

  A matter of luck: The odds are against you here (success chance: 40%)

  
  

  Success

  The wine of secrets

  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • You've lost 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
  • You've lost 1 x Extraordinary Implication
  • You've gained 1 x Favours: The Great Game (up to 7)
  • You've gained 1 x Blackmail Material
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +1 ; up to level 6

  Failure

  An unsatisfying bouquet

  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • You've lost 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
  • You've lost 1 x Extraordinary Implication
  • You've gained 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
  • Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +1 ; up to level 3

  ^

Examine it through your Semiotic Monocle

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, 1 x Semiotic Monocle
   

  Challenge information

  Narrow, A Scholar of the Correspondence || 0 - almost impossible (0%) || 1 - almost impossible (10%) || 2 - high-risk (20%) || 3 - high-risk (30%) || 4 - tough (40%) || 5 - very chancy (50%) || 6 - chancy (60%) || 7 - modest (70%) || 9 - low-risk (90%) || 10 - straightforward (100%)

  
  

  Success

  Secret Scripts

  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Watchful is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • A Scholar of the Correspondence is increasing… (+1 CP; up to level 15)
  • [Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +3 levels; only if you have at most 5]

  Wiki note: If you're already at PTPT: Lacre 6 or above, you will not receive any benefit! If your level is lower than 6 when you play this option, you will receive the 3 level boost, and you may surpass the usual level limit (ex: using the monocle at level 4 will take you to 7, and using it at level 5 will take you to 8).

  Failure

  Ugh!

  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Wounds is increasing… (+1 CP)

  ^

Write a monograph on it...in it

•  Spoiler 

  

  Action Cost: 5
  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, Profession: Correspondent
   

  Challenge information

  Broad, A Scholar of the Correspondence 15
  || 11 - very chancy (41%) || 13 - chancy (51%) || 16 - modest (61%) || 18 - very modest (71%) || 21 - low-risk (81%) || 23 - straightforward (91%) || 25 - straightforward (100%)
  

  
  

  Success

  A qualified success

  • Nightmares is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • A Scholar of the Correspondence is increasing… (+2-14 CP, up to level 15)
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Watchful is increasing… (+60 CP)
  • Making Waves is increasing… (+1-20 CP)
  • Connected: Benthic is increasing… (+10 CP)
  • Connected: Summerset is increasing… (+10 CP)

  Failure

  An automatic madness

  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • Nightmares is increasing… (+3 CP)

  ^

Invite a Friend to a Private Supper

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with 1 x Free Evening, 1 x Journal of Infamy, 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, A Connoisseur of Neathy Delights 3, Hedonist 4
   

  When Sent

  An unusual savour The flavour of the stuff is unusual but barely detectable: a little like the buried-shark soups of the Melting Isles, perhaps. Perhaps you shouldn't sample too much on your own.

  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • You've lost 1 x Journal of Infamy

  
  Your friend will receive:

  • [Player] has invited you to their Lodgings, alone. Are they being forward with you? Is it a trap? Or is it the continuation of a long tradition of friendship?

  Once Accepted

  You will receive:

  You watch carefully as [Friend] eats... and then everything goes grey. There was a voice, you remember afterwards, lamenting one lost at sea. When you wake, the world seems wider. It's as if you had opened new senses, but have forgotten their use.

  • Making Waves is increasing… (+7 CP)
  • Watchful is increasing… (+6 CP)
  • Persuasive is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • Dangerous is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • Shadowy is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • Nightmares is increasing… (+8 CP)
  • A Connoisseur of Neathy Delights is increasing… (+1 CP) (up to level 17)
  • You've lost 1 x Free Evening

  
  

  Your friend will receive:

  You were with [Player]...you had a pleasant meal... and then everything went grey. You dreamt about stars. And your daughter, lost at sea. Do you even have a daughter? The world seems wider. What did your friend feed you?

  • Making Waves is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • You've gained 1 x Confident Smile (up to 13)
  • Persuasive is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • Dangerous is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • Shadowy is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • Watchful is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • Nightmares is increasing… (+8 CP)

  • You've lost 1 x Free Evening

  ^

Feed it to a Wild Boar

•  Spoiler 

  

  Unlocked with Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre 5-15, 1 x Dreadful Surmise
   

  Challenge information

  Broad, Dangerous 200
  || 137 - very chancy (41%) || 170 - chancy (51%) || 204 - modest (61%) || 237 - very modest (71%) || 270 - low-risk (81%) || 304 - straightforward (91%) || 334 - straightforward (100%)
  

  
  

  Success

  A kind of blessing

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  • [Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre +1 level]
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow
  • You've gained 1 x Antique Mystery

  Failure

  A matter of taste

  • Dangerous is increasing…
  • Wounds is increasing… (+3 CP)
  • You've lost 1 x Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow

  ^