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Reputation: Smugglers
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Category Profile
Type Pecularities
Data ID 139066

Reputation: Smugglers is considered a Profile Quality Pecularities in Sunless Skies.

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"How highly do the skies' smugglers regard you?"

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Reputation: Smugglers has different statuses according to your actions, defined by the comment in front of the quality.

Journal description[ | ]

  • [1] A Novice of the Sky-Roads
  • [2] A Spark-Snuffer and a Candle-Choker
  • [3] A Star-Slink
  • [4] A Scorner of Lamps
  • [5] A Begetter of Ghosts
  • [6] A Covener
  • [7] A Moon-Mizzler
  • [8] A Haunt of the High-Ways
  • [9] A Noose-Dodger
  • [10] A Springheeled Scoundrel
  • [11] A Shepherd of Shadows
  • [12] The Horror of the Hangman
  • [13] An As-You-Please
  • [14] A Butcher of Laws
  • [15] A False-Parson
  • [16] A Knight of the Coves
  • [17] A Margrave of Masks
  • [18] A Cardinal of Contraband
  • [19] A Saint of Sinners
  • [20] The Devil's Confessor

Interactions[ | ]

Interactions in Brief[ | ]

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Interaction Action Result Type Change
Pasts 'A Seasoned Smuggler' Requirement ≥ 3

Interactions in Detail[ | ]

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Story Action Required Effect
Pasts A Seasoned Smuggler Default:


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Prospects[ | ]

Prospect Location Requirements Demand Sell Price Bonus
[ALWAYS]Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie

Word has come to the Blind Bruiser from the Gentlemen, the merciless gang of smugglers who operate in Eleutheria. A Bohemian Baronet, exiled for a string of scandals, has led his coterie to the spice-port of Achlys. He considers himself a poet-philosopher, and a devotee of the unspoiled word. As a result, he and his followers refuse to read works censored by the Ministry. They want only unadulterated originals and will pay for seven Trunks of Illicit Literature to be delivered to them at Achlys. .

Achyls The Bohemian Baronet has installed himself in a stilted, smokey salon at the end of a long jetty. His coterie pay you with the last of his inheritance, collections of expurgated literature they no longer want, and a number of insightful secrets.
Light In The Darkness: Illicit Literature for Lustrum

Not even the King James' Bible is safe from the purgative pens of the Ministry of Public Decency. You receive a tip-off from your benefactor: an Intractable Reverend in Lustrum is willing to pay well for unedited, uncensored religious texts. Five Trunks of Illicit Literature should suffice.

Lustrum A frost-bitten priest thumbs eagerly through an unexpurgated Bible. "The first winter here was a bad one, and the settlers burned all their books to stay warm. We've been preaching the Word According To The Windward Company ever since." He snaps the book shut. "These will help put an end to that."
Scribbles and Cyphers: Illicit Literature for Achlys

The Murgatroyd family: humble purveyors of fungal crackers to those unacquainted with the Great Game of spies and nations, and of espionage to those who are. Their outpost in Achlys requires seven Trunks of Illicit Literature (the spicier the better), and they need it within one month of you accepting the prospect.

Achyls One of Amberley Murgatroyd's maids thanks you for your prompt delivery and collects the shipment of scandalous literature. "The mistress likes hiding her cyphers in these. The Ministry doesn't usually look too closely before chucking them in the fire."
The Eagle's Education: Illicit Literature for Eagle's Empyrean

A Bespectacled Official at the Eagle's Empyrean wants authentic, unadulterated insights onto London culture, and the Ministry's censored versions of prose and poetry are too curated for his needs. He requests five Trunks of Illicit Literature that represent London's warts as well as her glory. .

Eagle's Empyrean The Bespectacled Official is satisfied with your delivery. "I spent some time in London, you know." he tells you, flipping through an uncensored Wilde. "But somehow I don't recognise this city the Ministry of Public Decency tell me it is." He pays you in crisp sovereign-notes in high denominations.
A Spring In Their Step: Illicit Literature for Port Prosper

A Prim Dowager lingers, out-of-place, near the platform. As soon as she sees you she hurries forward brandishing an umbrella. "Ah, Captain. No, you need not explain your presence here; I can see at a glance that your character is above reproach. I am here to stop the most awful smuggling to Port Prosper. Why, they say that anyone with, oh, say seven Trunks of Illicit Literature could just swan along there and sell their smut and scandal for a startling and entirely inappropriate sum. Shocking. I must insist you tell the ruffians here to cease this appallingly profitable trade, at once!" Her gaze is level; her expression carefully arranged.

Port Prosper Your Illicit Literature is avidly received in Port Prosper. The local paper puffs and tuts about the sudden influx of 'gentleman's relish', even as servants from well-heeled families crowd your locomotive, offering bulging purses for paper-wrapped samples of your cargo. The handmaid of a certain Prim Dowager purchases several of the most scandalous volumes, while giving you a wicked wink.
All Across the Sky: Red Honey for Worlebury-juxta-Mare

A recent fad among the holiday-makers at Worlebury-juxta-Mare is red honey gathered from the memories of skyfarers and exiles. Those who have travelled far and lived hard. "Their memories are honeycombed with madness," the Ethereal Apiarist observes. "Perhaps that adds to their allure." Can you deliver seven Firkins of Red Honey to Worlebury before the season ends in a month? .

Worlebury-juxta-Mare Intrigued holidays makers sidle, furtively, to your locomotive, eager for a taste of 'skyfarer's delight'. Later, they will clamber through someone else's memories: of distant nooks of the sky, of little-trod heavenly roads, of star-madness encroaching like the tide.
Tribute to the Unquiet Dead: Red Honey to the Mausoleum

The Ethereal Apiarist teases a thorn from her hand. Blood beads on her palm. "I received a letter from a dead man today. Well, officially dead. Ceremonially dead. One of the Deathless aristocrats of the Most Serene Mausoleum. They are planning a revel. What else will you do with eternity, I suppose? They want five Firkins of Red Honey." .

The Most Serene Mausoeum Little attempt is made to hide your transaction, for the Deathless do as they please. After all, if you are exempt from the laws of time, why should you be subject to those of customs and excise? A haunted footman hands over your payment, along with the Macabre Counsellor's thanks for a job well done, and an invitation to Perdurance's Half-Light Masque.
A New Flavour: Red Honey for Achlys

A visitor from Achlys, marked with the tattoo of a cinnamon trader, wishes to arrange a supply of Red Honey. To begin with, they require seven Firkins, and suggest that more opportunities might be forthcoming.

Achyls Mr Pipes, proprietor of the House of Silks, makes a rare personal appearance outside its establishment to acquire your entire delivery of red honey. "The precise nature of your product is not well known here," it tells you. "Let us not concern these fine people with the truth."
A Rose by Another Name: Red Honey for the Empyrean

You find the Ethereal Apiarist dreamily taming a rosebush with her secateurs. "Are you acquainted with the Empyrean's 'diplomatic corps'? Their Rose-without-Thorns?" she laughs, delightedly, at the name. "I suppose it's a prettier title than 'secret police'. Well, they want seven Firkins of Red Honey, for reasons of their own. London, meanwhile, is determined to prevent them. How exciting!"

Eagle's Empyrean The Rose-Without-Thorns slip you into the Empyrean via hidden tunnels, and into cavernous cellar. From behind one door you can hear singing. From behind another, sobbing. But a stern official explains you can, in fact, not hear either of those things. In fact you can hear nothing, because people who hear nothing are very well paid. The payment is produced: a pouch of bright, freshly-minted sovereigns, several rolls of bombazine, and a caged sky-beast they have no further use for.
Melancholy Memorials: Starshine for the Mausoleum

Certain august funerals at the Most Serene Mausoleum have begun to hang lamps of starshine during the ceremonies. The soft silver glow evokes memories of distant times that will never come again, and can move even the most stolid mourners to melancholy. Can you deliver five Hogsheads of Starshine for a series of upcoming burials? .

The Most Serene Mausoeum The hogsheads are discreetly wrapped in black, funereal cloth. A chaplain hands you a sombre black briefcase, clinking with coin. "The Duchess Incarnadine appreciates your assistance," he says, as servants hurry to remove the contraband.
A Thought Of Home: Starshine For Lustrum

One of the Gentlemen, Pan's notorious smugglers, claims to have an opportunity for you. However, getting details out of him is difficult. He seems distracted by old memories. Has he been sampling the shinney? Eventually, you're able to get extract the necessaries: five Hogsheads of Starshine to be delivered to a shinney-joint at Lustrum. .

Lustrum A stoic crew of ex-prospectors meet you at the station. You help them transport the starshine to a tangled knot of caves that burrows into the mountain. In each little cave a lamp hangs, spilling the glow of old, familiar stars. Limed in the faint light, miners sit and muse, or weep.
Forbidden Light: Starshine to Worlebury-juxta-Mare

Two gangs are feuding over the shinney-trade at Worlebury-juxta-Mare. The endless tide of holiday-makers represents a lucrative market, and one of the gangs wants seven Hogsheads of starshine to corner it. The scarred Gentleman from whom you learn of the prospect, though, warns you to take care. The gangs haven't been subtle, and the Revenue Men's dreadnoughts are on high alert. .

Worlebury-juxta-Mare Your instructions are to come alone with the shinney. You ignore them, and just as well. One member of the gang had got it into his head to improve their bottom line by bringing knives rather than payment. There is a short fracas, during which you convince them of the benefits of fair dealing. The gang bring your payment, and as a token of goodwill, your quartermaster only demands one finger from each of them.
Revolution and Homesickness: Starshine for Port Prosper

An undermanager of the Windward Company has sent word to the Gentlemen of Pan that their branch in Port Prosper has use for starshine, but nobody seems willing to sell the five Hogsheads they require. At least, not openly. .

Port Prosper Your illicit delivery is just what the Indiscreet Undermanager wanted. "It's not for us, you understand. In fact, we mean to give it away!" He gives what he considers a cunning grin. "The Tacketies preposterous insurrection should be harder to sustain with a shinney-habit. Homesickness will take the fight out of them."
The Pages Vault: Illicit Literature to the Empyrean

The Gloomy Middleman has an opportunity for which someone has specifically requested you. A private collector in the Eagle's Empyrean seeks books from the notorious 'Pages Collection' of Old London, which was said to contain copies of works assumed to be mythical. "I rarely read myself," the Middleman confides, "on account of my deep mistrust of writers, whom I consider perfidious. The odds of finding something from the Pages Collection is vanishingly small, of course, but to an optimist any haystack might hide a needle. Nine Trunks of Illicit Literature should do in this case. Within two months, if you please." .

Eagle's Empyrean The client is attached to the London embassy. She avidly begins rummaging through the books. "The Pages Collection contained works written during the heyday of the Khans; ones which might shed some truth on the Eagle's... unlikely account of his early family history. Your promptness is appreciated; I have a lot of reading to do."
Repaying a Debt: Red Honey to Worlebury

Another smuggler has been caught while attempting to complete a prospect. Even now, they take the stand before a judge renowned for his lack of mercy. In the meantime, their opportunity could be yours. Time is now of the essence. Nine Firkins of Red Honey must be delivered to Worlebury-juxta-Mare within two months of you accepting the prospect.

Worlebury-juxta-Mare The delivery goes to plan and arrives on time. You carry the honey through the Worlebury mists to an isolated barn near the shore. An enterprising villain is establishing a honey den. The animals are gone, and their stalls have been draped with red velvet. It all still smells of straw.
Dead Man's Drop: Red Honey to the Mausoleum

An envelope reaches you. Inside is a simple note, offering the opportunity to provide nine Firkins of Red Honey to a specific platform at the Most Serene Mausoleum. It is marked with a stamp: a mark of the Duchess Incarnadine, one of the Deathless courtiers who served Her Majesty and were permitted to retire with an eternity of hours.

The Most Serene Mausoeum The Duchess' men unload the honey, and carry it onto a Necropolis Line engine idling at a nearby siding. The Necropolis Line carries London's dead for burial at the Mausoleum, and returns for more. A useful cover to allow the transport of contraband into the well-watched city. Apparently, the Duchess likes to keep busy in her dotage.
The New Astrology: Starshine to Prosper

Word has spread to the Gentlemen that Bohemian groups in Port Prosper are developing a taste for shinney. But few smugglers can afford the nine Hogsheads their coteries demand, even with the promise of an impressive payday. .

Port Prosper You make your delivery, bit by bit, to a draughty manor. Eager bohemians pour each new hogshead into the garden's ornamental pond. When it is full, they gather around and kneel at the edge, their faces silver with the far-travelled light of Old Earth's stars. You watch as each sinks of them sinks into childhood memories.
Delusions Of Home: Starshine to the Mausoleum

Now you've proven yourself a competent smuggler, the Gentlemen can offer more challenging and more rewarding prospects. They keep many of the details secret, but you deduce that one of the Deathless courtiers at the Most Serene Mausoleum operates a pipeline of contraband into London. They require nine Hogsheads of Starshine, and they need them within two months from the day you accept the prospect.

The Most Serene Mausoeum You deliver the shinney to a gloomy, pillared hall where corpses are prepared for burial. Silent servants transfer the starshine into coffins, marked with the stamp of the Necropolis Line.
Quid Pro Quo: Red Honey for the Empyrean

Though the relationship between London and the Eagle's Empyrean is strained, each is haunted by the other. The people of each city crave news of the other: its politics, its fads, its follies. The latest Empyreal fascination is with London's vices. Criminal families at the Empyrean require nine Firkins of Red Honey. Several smugglers have attempted this prospect before, and failed. Her Majesty's Customs and Excise have retasked several enduring dreadnoughts to comb the skies.

Eagle's Empyrean The honey is snapped up at a secret auction attended by the Empyrean's most ambitious criminal families. What better way to understand the madness of Londoners, than by taking a spoonful of honey and living it? One of the factions, clearly hoping to win your future goodwill, pays you with casks of shimmering gems.
The Prosper Revolution: Illicit Literature to Port Prosper

The Gloomy Middleman insists on speaking in person. "I consider politics to be the refuge of the incapable, but my employer has decided to dabble. His interests in the Reach align with those of the Tacketies, who have agents in place at Port Prosper. They need revolutionary materials to spread their dissent. Can you get eleven Trunks of Illicit Literature into the port? Be wary: the Revenue Men have got wind of the endeavour, and have sent dreadnoughts to prevent it." .

Port Prosper
    • Smuggling icon Reputation: Smugglers ≥ 10
    • Smuggling icon Smuggling ≥ 1
You make the exchange in a gloomy alley behind a shabby tea-shop. Your contacts are hooded and jumpy: Prosper is firmly a Stovepipe port. The Tacketies plan to distribute the seditious tracts to a struggling local cell of sympathisers, and to any Company captains that might be willing to turn. The Blind Bruiser sends his regards, and recompense for your time.
The Rose At Midnight: Red Honey to Achlys

The Ethereal Apiarist approaches you directly. "There's little point going to anyone but the best for this. A client at Achlys requires an unusually large shipment of Red Honey:thirteen Firkins! A difficult prospect, to get so much past the Revenue Men. They'll no doubt have got wind something is afoot, and put some dreadnoughts on patrol." She looks dreamily into the sky. "I wonder who it is that needs it, and what for?"

Achyls
    • Smuggling icon Reputation: Smugglers ≥ 15
    • Smuggling icon Smuggling ≥ 1
The mysterious customer is a successful tobacco trader, who insists on doing the handover deep in Achlys' poisoned marsh. In a grove of leaning trees, cowled men are constructing iron cages, while nearby a set of beehives drone, furiously. "We'll have our own cage garden soon," the trader tells you. "But first, we must create a market. You keep our little secret, and we'll help you keep yours." He swears a thief's oath to you, there amidst the dripping grove. You suspect he was not always a tobacco trader.


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Skills Iron icon Iron Mirrors icon Mirrors Hearts icon Hearts Veils icon Veils
Affiliations Affiliationacadame icon Affiliation: Academe Affiliationbohemia icon Affiliation: Bohemia Affiliationestablishment icon Affiliation: Establishment Affiliationvillainy icon Affiliation: Villainy
Events Boot icon Fortunes: Tacketies Stovepipe icon Fortunes: Stovepipes Verdantseeds icon Dominant in the Reach Fuel icon The Strength of the Sun
Reputations Boot icon Reputation: The Tacketies Stovepipe icon Reputation: The Windward Company Smuggling icon Reputation: Smugglers
Soul Drink icon Stained
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Bloody icon Winter's Reside: Something More Than Revolutionary Bloody icon Winter's Reside: Season's Passing Devilshell icon Hell's Sacrist
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