I need to impress a Bishop in my quest for my Heart's Desire, but I need waaaay more candle stubs than I have.
What is a way I can gain them in large quantities?
How to earn Foxfire Candle Stubs quickly
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Generally there are quests around the Flit or Wolfstack Docks that will do some good, and obviously playing opportunity cards that will commit dodgy deeds or frustrate the Constables are likely to help.
As long as you have a Connected: Criminals of at least three, then you can go to Mrs Plenty's Carnival. Buy or steal some carnival tickets, then go to the sideshows. From there you should be able to exchange tickets for Connected: Criminals by associating with the criminals. This should enable you to get your Connected up to 10 and use the key.
Also, here is a large list of things that will increase your Connected: Criminals. http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Criminals
Good luck.
Being a basic Wild Words item, the primary use for Primordial Shrieks is to convert them up to Maniac's Prayers.
You can use Primordial Shrieks in batches of 1, 50, and 500 by clicking on Primordial Shrieks in your inventory, which you can find on the "Myself" tab.
Here are the choices you currently have:
There is also a list of other uses at the Fallen London Wikia, but they are few and far between.
As with most things in Fallen London, you could of course pawn your Primordial Shrieks at the Bazaar, where they sell for 2 pence each.
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Best Answer
The most efficient way: the right storylet
Find a storylet available to you that rewards you in Foxfire Candle Stubs. Storylets reward you in direct proportion to the minimum main quality required to unlock them, so find the hardest one that you can succeed in on a fairly-regular basis. (For example: a storylet that requires Watchful 20 might reward you with 20 Foxfire Candle Stubs, but a storylet that requires Watchful 50 might reward you with 50 Foxfire Candle Stubs.)
Alas, I can't be more precise than that: most of Fallen London will be unavailable to you at any given moment, because one of your four main qualities will be too high or too low. Storylets are only available for a particular window: if your Watchful is too low, you don't get to see, say, Search For A Missing Rubbery Man in Ladybones Road. Similarly, it will disappear again once your Watchful gets too high.
In general, storylets involving Knife-And-Candle players, New Newgate Prison, and the Church will get you Foxfire Candle Stubs.
The fastest way: Money, Dear Boy
If you really need a lot of candles fast, then the simplest answer is to sell things, and buy Foxfire Candle Stubs at 3 pence apiece from Merrigans Exchange in the Echo Bazaar. (It's the "Bazaar" tab.)
Anything in the "Goods" category is ideal to sell, because those items can't be converted into other things and doesn't have any use except to be spent. Rostygold, Moon-Pearls, Nevercold Brass Slivers, and other such Goods have uses in storylets, but can't be up-converted into other things. Chances are really high that you have far too many of several different types of Goods, so sell off the excess: remember how many you used the last time a storylet required that Good, and sell off all of that Good except for a small reserve. Repeat for the rest of your Goods, until you have enough Echoes to buy what you need from the Bazaar. If you can't or don't want to sell Goods, then sell the base-level up-convertible things, like Whispered Secrets, Jade Fragments, and whatever else that you've ended up with far too much of.
The main idea here is that you will almost never have 1000 of the thing you need, but you'll almost always have 2000 various other things that you aren't using terribly much at the moment. Since you can't really predict what you'll need next, it's a better use of your time to buy what you need now, rather than to save up forever in the hopes that you'll eventually find a storylet that requires those 10,000 Whispered Secrets that are cluttering up your cupboards.