Moves in the Great Game

Moves in the Great Game
Category	Curiosity
Type	Knowledge
Price	From +30 x Echo at The Dark-Spectacled Admiral up to +75 x Echo at Roser's Wharf
Data ID	110311

Moves in the Great Game is considered a Knowledge Curiosity item.

Item description

"The nations of Europe, and beyond, compete for influence. Their plots reach even to the Neath."

Game note: The Admiral, among others, will be interested to hear this.

Obtaining

Moves in the Great Game can be obtained in the following ways:

• Visit  Irem with  Something Awaits You to trade  -1 x Lamentable Relic for  +2 x Moves in the Great Game
  • Note that you can purchase a Lamentable Relic at The Fisher of Dawn right there in Irem for  -1 x Secret
• Visit Cumaean Canal Staging Area with  Something Awaits You and Listen for Surface gossip for a 50% chance to get  +1 x Moves in the Great Game

Usage

Moves in the Great Game has the following uses:

• The Dark-Spectacled Admiral and The Voracious Diplomat want this knowledge. Select the Speak of Moves in the Great Game action with the Admiral, or the Describe recent moves in the Great Game action with the Diplomat, for +30 x Echo or +50 x Echo, respectively. The Admiral also awards +1 x Admiralty's Favour.
• In London, the A Visit to Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour requires 1 x Moves in the Great Game for the The Gambit action.
• Two pieces of Strategic Information may be forged into a piece of Vital Intelligence using Moves in the Great Game, if your Mirrors exceed 30.
• The Roser's Wharf in London might buy it for +75 x Echo

Interactions

Interactions in Brief

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Interaction	Action	Result Type	Change
The Dark-Spectacled Admiral	'Speak of Moves in the Great Game'	Requirement	≥ 1
The Dark-Spectacled Admiral	'Speak of Moves in the Great Game'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1
Khan's Heart	'Seek intelligence'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
Khan's Heart	'Seek intelligence'	Rare Event	+1
Irem	'Sacrifice a Lamentable Relic'	Default / Challenge Fail	+2
Wisdom	'Let the Shady Cook go ashore'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
Shadowy work in Khan's Heart	'It just might work'	Requirement	≥ 1
Shadowy work in Khan's Heart	'It just might work'	Default / Challenge Fail	+ -1
Shadowy work in Khan's Heart	'A Diplomatic Agent'	Rare Success	+2
Shadowy work in Khan's Heart	'Your cunning is required'	Success	+1
Speak to the Doctor	'A Long Talk: Cold Reality'	Requirement	≥ 3
Speak to the Doctor	'A Long Talk: Cold Reality'	Default / Challenge Fail	-3
Assemble Vital Intelligence	'Make sense of Moves in the Game'	Requirement	≥ 1
Assemble Vital Intelligence	'Make sense of Moves in the Game'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1
Vienna	'Report the Fidgeting Agitator to the authorities'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
Vienna	'Dine with your friend from the Bureau'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
Khan's Shadow	'Help Maybe's Daughter search for her mother'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
The Dogged Apprentice on a Break	'Give an audience to a short story'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
The War for Hearts and Minds	'Break the Sprightly Visionary's illusion'	Requirement	≥ 1
The War for Hearts and Minds	'Break the Sprightly Visionary's illusion'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1
The Cumaean Canal Staging Area	'Listen for Surface gossip'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
A Visit to Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour	'The Gambit'	Requirement	≥ 1
A Visit to Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour	'The Gambit'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1
The Voracious Diplomat	'Describe recent moves in the Great Game'	Requirement	≥ 1
The Voracious Diplomat	'Describe recent moves in the Great Game'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1
Port Carnelian	'Seek intelligence'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
Port Carnelian	'Seek intelligence'	Rare Event	+1
Carnelian Conspiracies	'It just might work'	Requirement	≥ 1
Carnelian Conspiracies	'It just might work'	Default / Challenge Fail	+ -1
Carnelian Conspiracies	'Sate a fervence'	Default / Challenge Fail	+3
Carnelian Conspiracies	'Your authority'	Success	+1
Carnelian Conspiracies	'A Diplomatic Agent'	Rare Success	+2
The Monkey Emperor's Wrath	'Throw the box into the zee'	Default / Challenge Fail	+7
A spy walks the ship!	'Track down the spy'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1
Roser's Wharf	'A Bespectacled Visitor will pay to learn Moves in the Great Game'	Requirement	≥ 1
Roser's Wharf	'A Bespectacled Visitor will pay to learn Moves in the Great Game'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1
The Man in the Mirror	'Try to see the Man in the Mirror'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
A Collector of Stories	'Trade a story for a map, and knowledge'	Default / Challenge Fail	+1
The Voracious Diplomat, Hounded	'Fake the Voracious Diplomat's death...'	Requirement	≥ 1
The Voracious Diplomat, Hounded	'Fake the Voracious Diplomat's death...'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1
The Voracious Diplomat, in Hiding	'Fake the Voracious Diplomat's death...'	Requirement	≥ 1
The Voracious Diplomat, in Hiding	'Fake the Voracious Diplomat's death...'	Default / Challenge Fail	-1

Interactions in Detail

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Story	Action	Required	Effect
The Dark-Spectacled Admiral	Speak of Moves in the Great Game	Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1	Default: -1 x Moves in the Great Game +30 x Echo +1 x Favours: Admiralty's Favour
Khan's Heart	Seek intelligence	Something Awaits You ≥ 1 Networks: Khan's Heart ≥ 2 (7 for 100%)	Default: +1 x Moves in the Great Game +1 x Memory of Distant Shores Something Awaits You = 0 Rare: +1 x Moves in the Great Game +1 x Memory of Distant Shores Something Awaits You = 0 -1 x Networks: Khan's Heart
Irem	Sacrifice a Lamentable Relic	Something Awaits You ≥ 1 Another Day: Time, the Healer ≥ 50 Lamentable Relic ≥ 1	Default: -1 x Lamentable Relic +2 x Moves in the Great Game Something Awaits You = 0
Wisdom	Let the Shady Cook go ashore	Shady Cook ≥ 1	Default: -1 x Shady Cook +5 x Supplies +5 x Fuel +1 x Secret +1 x Strategic Information +5 x Tale of Terror!! +5 x Zee-ztory +5 x Memory of Distant Shores +5 x Vision of the Surface +1 x Moves in the Great Game
Shadowy work in Khan's Heart	Your cunning is required	Veils Networks: An Opportunity - Khan's Heart ≥ 51 ≤ 70	Success: Networks: An Opportunity - Khan's Heart = 0 +1 x Networks: Khan's Heart +1 x Moves in the Great Game
	It just might work	Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans ≥ 1 Mutersalt ≥ 1 Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1 Networks: An Opportunity - Khan's Heart ≥ 41 ≤ 45	Default: -1 x Sack of Darkdrop Coffee Beans -1 x Mutersalt -1 x Moves in the Great Game Networks: An Opportunity - Khan's Heart = 0 +1 x Networks: Khan's Heart +1 x Vital Intelligence
	A Diplomatic Agent	Networks: A Diplomatic Agent ≥ 1 Networks: An Opportunity - Khan's Heart ≥ 1 ≤ 30 Veils	Rare Success: -1 x Networks: A Diplomatic Agent +1 x Networks: Khan's Heart +2 x Moves in the Great Game Networks: An Opportunity - Khan's Heart = 0
Speak to the Doctor	A Long Talk: Cold Reality	Learning About: The Haunted Doctor = 26 Hearts ≥ 175 Moves in the Great Game ≥ 3	Default: Learning About: The Haunted Doctor = 30 Determined Doctor = 0 Disillusioned Doctor = 1 -3 x Moves in the Great Game +1 x Searing Enigma
Assemble Vital Intelligence	Make sense of Moves in the Game	Strategic Information ≥ 2 Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1 Mirrors ≥ 30	Default: +1 x Vital Intelligence -2 x Strategic Information -1 x Moves in the Great Game
Vienna	Report the Fidgeting Agitator to the authorities	Favours: A Gentleman of the Bureau ≤ 0 Supremacy: The Anarchists ≤ 6	Default: +1 x Favours: A Gentleman of the Bureau -2 x Supremacy: The Anarchists Favours: The Calendar Council = 0 +1 x Moves in the Great Game +1 x Strategic Information Hunger = 0 +1 x Supplies -15 x Terror Supplies for the Work = 0
	Dine with your friend from the Bureau	Favours: A Gentleman of the Bureau ≥ 1 Recent News ≥ 1	Default: +1 x Moves in the Great Game Hunger = 0 +1 x Supplies -5 x Terror +1 x Intriguing Snippet +25 x Fragment Recent News = 0
Khan's Shadow	Help Maybe's Daughter search for her mother	Maybe's Daughter ≥ 1 Learning About: Maybe's Daughter ≥ 10 ≤ 999 (501 for 100%) Maybe: Khan's Shadow ≥ 1	Default: Learning About: Maybe's Daughter = Learning About: Maybe's Daughter*2 Maybe: Khan's Shadow = 0 +1 x Moves in the Great Game
The Dogged Apprentice on a Break	Give an audience to a short story	None	Default: Something Awaits You = 0 +1 x Moves in the Great Game Triggers event:  Rosegate
The War for Hearts and Minds	Break the Sprightly Visionary's illusion	Hideaway: The Truth = 70 [The truth will be fought over during the Rainbowing] Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1	Default: Hideaway: The Truth = 80 [Something has given way] +10 x Hideaway: Deciding the Future of Hideaway +15 x Fragment -1 x Moves in the Great Game Triggers event:  The End of the War
The Cumaean Canal Staging Area	Listen for Surface gossip	Something Awaits You ≥ 1	Default: Something Awaits You = 0 +1 x Moves in the Great Game
A Visit to Clathermont's Tattoo Parlour	The Gambit	Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1 Echo ≥ 1	Default: +2 x Pages -25 x Terror -1 x Moves in the Great Game -1 x Echo Memoirs: Your Own Sweet Skin = 6 [The Gambit]
The Voracious Diplomat	Describe recent moves in the Great Game	Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1 Favours: Admiralty's Favour ≥ 1	Default: -1 x Moves in the Great Game +50 x Echo
Port Carnelian	Seek intelligence	Something Awaits You ≥ 1 Networks: Port Carnelian ≥ 2 (7 for 100%)	Default: +1 x Moves in the Great Game Something Awaits You = 0 +1 x Zee-ztory -1 x Networks: Port Carnelian Rare: +1 x Moves in the Great Game Something Awaits You = 0 +1 x Zee-ztory -1 x Networks: Port Carnelian
Carnelian Conspiracies	Your authority	Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian ≥ 51 ≤ 70 Hearts	Success: +1 x Moves in the Great Game Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian = 0 +1 x Networks: Port Carnelian Triggers event:  Port Carnelian
	It just might work	Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1 Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian ≥ 41 ≤ 45 Firkin of Prisoner's Honey ≥ 1 Cask of Mushroom Wine ≥ 1	Default: -1 x Moves in the Great Game +1 x Vital Intelligence Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian = 0 +1 x Networks: Port Carnelian -1 x Firkin of Prisoner's Honey -1 x Cask of Mushroom Wine Triggers event:  Port Carnelian
	A Diplomatic Agent	Networks: A Diplomatic Agent ≥ 1 Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian ≥ 1 ≤ 30 Veils	Rare Success: -1 x Networks: A Diplomatic Agent +2 x Moves in the Great Game Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian = 0 +1 x Networks: Port Carnelian Triggers event:  Port Carnelian
	Sate a fervence	Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian ≥ 91 ≤ 100 Judgements' Egg ≥ 1	Default: +3 x Networks: Port Carnelian -1 x Judgements' Egg Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian = 0 +1 x Strategic Information +3 x Moves in the Great Game Triggers event:  Port Carnelian
The Monkey Emperor's Wrath	Throw the box into the zee	None	Default: Empire of Hands: The Monkey Emperor's Wrath = 0 +1 x Secret +7 x Moves in the Great Game
A spy walks the ship!	Track down the spy	Veils (251 for 100%)	Default: -1 x Moves in the Great Game
Roser's Wharf	A Bespectacled Visitor will pay to learn Moves in the Great Game	Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1 Another Day: The Rose-Market ≥ 51 ≤ 75	Default: -1 x Moves in the Great Game +75 x Echo Another Day: The Rose-Market = 0 [The Rose-Market has concluded, for now.]
The Man in the Mirror	Try to see the Man in the Mirror	None	Default: +1 x Moves in the Great Game Triggers event:  An Audience with the King
A Collector of Stories	Trade a story for a map, and knowledge	Low Barnet: Storyteller ≥ 7	Default: -7 x Low Barnet: Storyteller +1 x Revelatory Chart +1 x Strategic Information +1 x Moves in the Great Game +2 x Intriguing Snippet +2 x Memory of Distant Shores Triggers event:  Low Barnet
The Voracious Diplomat, Hounded	Fake the Voracious Diplomat's death...	Crew ≥ 1 Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1	Default: Ambition: the Propagandist = 10 [The Voracious Diplomat] +1 x Ambition: the Seven, Anew -1 x Crew -1 x Moves in the Great Game
The Voracious Diplomat, in Hiding	Fake the Voracious Diplomat's death...	Crew ≥ 1 Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1	Default: Ambition: the Propagandist = 10 [The Voracious Diplomat] +1 x Ambition: the Seven, Anew -1 x Crew -1 x Moves in the Great Game

Triggered Events

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Story	Requirements	Type	Location
A spy walks the ship!	Determined Doctor ≥ 1 Moves in the Great Game ≥ 1 Learning About: The Haunted Doctor ≤ 19	Random Event (Sometimes :1%)	The Unterzee