Story Hook - Numenra Expert wants Cord

1. Numenera Expert (Bopuwan,Lvl 3, 4 for Numenera) needs you to get a specific piece of numenra - a long snakelike piece of synth that lights and transmits.... something... when the two ends are attached to pieces of wood.  The whole contraption will revolutionize how we build furniture by instigating the wood to blow up like a puffball mushroom, creating a single sphere of wood that can be shaped using special musical techniques.  Backfires -

1. Buy it from a shop.
1. Find the shop.
2. Haggle.
2. Happen across a Nano's estate sale.  
1. Buy it. 
2. Steal it.  
3. Sweet talk the owner into giving it to you.  
3. Trade for it from a wealthy collector (Quov, Level 3, 5 for manners/speaking)
1. Favor - 
2. Object Wanted - Something to improve my collection of ____.  
4. Steal it from wealthy collector.  
1. 2 Guards (lvl 2,3)
2. 2 Guards (lvl 4,5), with cypher that can freeze a target for 1 minute.