Wild Words Sources

This page is part of the item grinding guide, q.v. for an introduction.

Primordial ShriekEdit

'Something keening' from 'Rob a drunk' in Spite provides 21-80 per action. It also have benefit of very low stat requirement. Consider a loop through Coil 2 the Labyrinth of Tigers, using "The arena": either 'Abraham the lizard', or 'the Inhabiter of Wolves'; or "The escaping hyaenas". Grind in Ladybones Road for 50 per action

Type	Name	Branch	Unlocks With	Challenge	Max Gain	Overall EPA	Non-item Effects	Notes
Card	A Gift from the Capering Relicker	A Scream for your Mantel	Someone is Coming 4	-	250	-	-21 CP of Someone is Coming	Seasonal, Multiple Action
Storylet: Mutton Island	The Wrecker's Cove	A thrumming chest of stoppered jars	Picking Through the Wreckers' Cove 26	-	100	-	Resets Picking Through the Wreckers' Cove	+1 Storm-Threnody, +1-2 Aeolian Scream, Multiple Action
Storylet: Mutton Island	The Fruits of the Zee Festival!	Accompany a passing crowd of drunken revellers	Sights at the Festival 34-66	-	10-Dangerous/4 (79 MAX)	-	Sights at the Festival random change +1-2 CP of Wounds	+3-Dangerous/20 Maniac's Prayer,Seasonal, Random
Storylet: The Labyrinth of Tigers	Cat fight!	Break up the fight 1	In the Labyrinth of Tigers, Navigating Coil exactly 2 Making Progress in the Labyrinth of Tigers 8	Dangerous: 98, broad (164 for 100%)	49	-	+2 CP Time Passing in the Labyrinth	Locked with Time Passing in the Labyrinth 7, Multiple Action
Storylet: The Labyrinth of Tigers	Breeding through Discipline	Breed the Somnolent Hyaena 4	1 x Somnolent Hyaena	Luck: 70%	1050	-	Resets Taming the Beast-1 CP In the Company of Monsters	-1 x Somnolent Hyaena, Random, Multiple Action
Storylet: Corpsecage Island	Up the Hill	Caging ancient echoes	Orthos is Coming! exactly 6	Watchful: 124, Broad (207 for 100%)	62	-	+2 CP Orthos is Coming!	Multiple Action
Storylet	Cracking the timetable	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet: Ladybones Road	Debate the nature of Primordial Shrieks	Unfinished Business in Ladybones Road Edit	POSI	Challenge	50	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Fabricate and then foil an elaborate plan to steal the tablets	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hand over a paltry few creditable scraps for Primordial Shrieks	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Into the ring against Abraham	Branch	Labyrinth of tigers Coil 2	Dangerous 98, broad	50	0.5	'+2 CP 'Time Passing in the Labyrinth	Notes
Storylet	Introductory lecturing	Branch	Featuring in the Tales of the University exactly 5, Term Passing... 5–10	Watchfull 85, broad	42	0.5	+2 CP Term Passing...	Notes
Storylet	It was the Provost of Summerset!	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kidnap	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kill a white marsh wolf	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kill the Fungus-column	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kill the goat demon	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kill the rat brigands	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Perhaps you might read a book today	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Play the professor	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Put on a fine show for them	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Screams and top hats	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Sign up for a few tutorials	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Something keening	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take a white marsh wolf alive	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take the Fungus-column alive	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take the goat demon alive	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take the rat brigands alive	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take them back	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The concern of a 'father'	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The dead men's chest	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The Deranged Keeper	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The Inhabiter of wolves	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	This will take work	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Advent Calendar 2014	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes

Maniac's PrayerEdit

Convert from Primordial Shriek. Correspondence Nightmare card is viable option, too. sells for 10 pence

Type	Name	Branch	Unlocks With	Challenge	Max Gain	Overall EPA	Non-item Effects	Notes
Storylet	A Scream for your Mantel	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	A thrumming chest of stoppered jars	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Accompany a passing crowd of drunken revellers	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Break up the fight 1	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Breed the Somnolent Hyaena 4	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Caging ancient echoes	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Cracking the timetable	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Debate the nature of Primordial Shrieks	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Fabricate and then foil an elaborate plan to steal the tablets	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hand over a paltry few creditable scraps for Primordial Shrieks	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Into the ring against Abraham	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Introductory lecturing	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	It was the Provost of Summerset!	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kidnap	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kill a white marsh wolf	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kill the Fungus-column	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kill the goat demon	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Kill the rat brigands	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Perhaps you might read a book today	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Play the professor	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Put on a fine show for them	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Screams and top hats	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Sign up for a few tutorials	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Something keening	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take a white marsh wolf alive	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take the Fungus-column alive	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take the goat demon alive	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take the rat brigands alive	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take them back	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The concern of a 'father'	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The dead men's chest	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The Deranged Keeper	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The Inhabiter of wolves	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	This will take work	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Advent Calendar 2014	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes

Correspondence PlaqueEdit

Type	Name	Branch	Unlocks With	Challenge	Max Gain	Overall EPA	Non-item Effects	Notes
Storylet	'Put your backs into it, lads!'	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	A notable success - a good deal	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	A notable success – still in residence?	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	A sound success	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Blackmail a Special Constable	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Consider the Prayer...	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Get rid of it 5	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hand over a box of scraps for Correspondence Plaques	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Intercept the messages	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Repeat a great many Maniac's Prayers	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Research your Maniac's Prayers	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Send her where they need her more	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Set her to sabotage	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Something perilous	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Sternly shut	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Tear loose a case from the hansom	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The narrowest of misses	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Wash your hands	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes

Aeolian ScreamEdit

Can be gained from lots of rare successes on cards and storylets alike. You can also convert it from Plaques. sells for 2 Echoes, 50 pence

Type	Name	Branch	Unlocks With	Challenge	Max Gain	Overall EPA	Non-item Effects	Notes
Storylet	A spot of footpadry	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	A stroll with a sack	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	A thrumming chest of stoppered jars	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	A tradition developed after the Fall	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	An arrangement of screams	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	An invitation to a rather exclusive soirée	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Ask the Goat's opinion	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Become the Phantom!	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Buy a Brass Embassy Guest Room from your Infernal friends	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Challenge a friend to a Contest of Mysteries	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Confront your dreams	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Creeping closer	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Debate the nature of Primordial Shrieks	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Exorcise your secrets by writing a journal	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Get in on a card game	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hand over a sack of scraps for Aeolian Screams	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hunt down a huge lizard	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	I will consume them!	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	I will examine my thoughts	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	I will pay whatever I am asked (5 FATE)	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	I will smash them! All of them!	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Let me ask my neighbours	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Pay the Doctor a visit	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Spiders and mystery	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The Conjurer's reward	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The fellow in the corner	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The next victim?	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Unlikely customers	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Use the Goat's... unique talents	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	What's this?	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Who can argue with me?	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Retrieve and sell a confession from a year gone by	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Search the shore	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes

Storm-ThrenodyEdit

Convert from Aeolian Screams, or get from rare success. sells for 12 Echoes, 50 pence

Type	Name	Branch	Unlocks With	Challenge	Max Gain	Overall EPA	Non-item Effects	Notes
Storylet	A thrumming chest of stoppered jars	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	An instrument?	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Challenge a friend to a Contest of Voices	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hand over a sack of scraps for Aeolian Screams	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hand over all the scraps you can carry for Storm-Threnodies	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Speak to naturalists, hunters and the breeders of monsters	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Study your journals with a learned colleague	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Sunless Sea	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Take your Aeolian Screams somewhere high	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Tell him	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	The Trickster's reward	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Trying to remember	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Use the Goat's... unique talents	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	"Let's get down to business."	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Advent Calendar 2013	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Advent Calendar 2014	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Search the shore	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes

Night-WhisperEdit

'What is this?' Conclusion of New Expeditions in the Forgotten Quarter provide 2 Night-Whisper. Can be gotten from the case of the fidgeting writer, too. sells for 62 Echoes, 50 pence

Type	Name	Branch	Unlocks With	Challenge	Max Gain	Overall EPA	Non-item Effects	Notes
Storylet	Burn his works. Break his pen. Escort him to the Royal Beth	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hand over a cartload of scraps for a Night-Whisper	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Lay in supplies and sail 2	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Neither confirm nor deny the countless confidences you keep	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Trade it to the Infernal Sommelier	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	What is this?	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	"Let's get down to business."	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes

Starstone DemarkEdit

Can currently only be gotten with Fate, relickers, or selling The Location of the Cave of the Nadir to Urchins.

Type	Name	Branch	Unlocks With	Challenge	Max Gain	Overall EPA	Non-item Effects	Notes
Storylet	Hand over a roomful of scraps for a Starstone Demark	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes
Storylet	Sell the location of the Cave of the Nadir (to Urchins)	Branch	Requirement	Challenge	Max gain	Overall EPA	Other Effects	Notes

Breath of the VoidEdit

Type	Name	Branch	Unlocks With	Challenge	Max Gain	Overall EPA	Non-item Effects	Notes
Card: Very Infrequent	The Shivering Relicker and Pinnock are Trundling By	Hand over a multitude of scraps for a Breath of the Void	3200 x Certifiable Scrap	Always Suceed	1	1562.60

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Unfinished Business in Ladybones Road Edit