Diptych
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3/30/2016
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Here's this week's thread for questions you want answers to, and vice versa! If you want a quick pointer for where to grind Romantic Notions at cap, or who's maintaining the current directory of London's most melancholy souls, here's the place to ask.
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3/30/2016
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How's a good way to burn off my Connected: Revolutionaries and earn some swag in the process? I want to cut ties with them and switch to something more amenable for Counting the Days, but I've got ~50 in the stat and it seems a shame to waste it.
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dov
Posts: 2580
3/30/2016
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The profitable way is to draw cards in the Flit until you find the Calling Favours in the Flit card which lets you cash in on Revolutionaries connection.
While (very) profitable, it also advances the Liberation of Night, so you might not want that on your conscience.
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th8827
Posts: 823
3/31/2016
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Are there any negative repercussions for the Plotting Against the Masters storyline?
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Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Kaigen
Posts: 530
3/31/2016
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th8827 wrote:
Are there any negative repercussions for the Plotting Against the Masters storyline? Once you start it, you are forevermore cursed with a pointless card in your deck.
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"One must remember that the impossible is, alas, always possible."
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Guest
3/31/2016
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dov wrote:
The profitable way is to draw cards in the Flit until you find the Calling Favours in the Flit card which lets you cash in on Revolutionaries connection.
While (very) profitable, it also advances the Liberation of Night, so you might not want that on your conscience.
Dang, only opportunity cards? Alas. Thanks though!
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th8827
Posts: 823
3/31/2016
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By "Start it" do you mean "gain the Plotting Against the Masters quality" or "have enough stats and connections to get the nag card"?
My character loves the Masters and hates the Revolutionaries.
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Gone NORTH. It's nice here.
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Sara Hysaro
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3/31/2016
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You get the card by getting the Plotting Against the Masters quality, but you can always change your mind. If you do carry out their commission, however, you're stuck with the card.
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The Duke of Waltham
Posts: 150
3/31/2016
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
You get the card by getting the Plotting Against the Masters quality, but you can always change your mind. If you do carry out their commission, however, you're stuck with the card.
I only did that out of curiosity, and because I was explicitly told I could accept the commission for the money rather than out of sympathy with the revolutionary cause, which I've never had. Much good it has done me...
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
4/1/2016
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What happened with the journal? And is it fixed?
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Jillius
Posts: 36
4/1/2016
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I tend to be overly prepared. Because, of course I do.
Thing is, I lost my chance to read an important part of the story, because I wanted to change my hat while escaping a fire. That can happen to anyone, ok?
Is there a way to read a story result you have neither in your journal, nor can get back to? (Ambition: Light Fingers 48)
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The Master
Posts: 804
4/1/2016
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Jillius wrote:
I tend to be overly prepared. Because, of course I do.
Thing is, I lost my chance to read an important part of the story, because I wanted to change my hat while escaping a fire. That can happen to anyone, ok?
Is there a way to read a story result you have neither in your journal, nor can get back to? (Ambition: Light Fingers 48)
In your Myself tab, under "Ambition" you can click on the red button(I forgot the text) to see text from your ambition.
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A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath.
No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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Wiwo
Posts: 365
4/1/2016
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The Master wrote:
Jillius wrote:
I tend to be overly prepared. Because, of course I do.
Thing is, I lost my chance to read an important part of the story, because I wanted to change my hat while escaping a fire. That can happen to anyone, ok?
Is there a way to read a story result you have neither in your journal, nor can get back to? (Ambition: Light Fingers 48)
In your Myself tab, under "Ambition" you can click on the red button(I forgot the text) to see text from your ambition.
"REMINISCE about your adventures", apparently. I had no idea about this, myself. Thanks!
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Care to pet a Heptagoat? Too bad. It doesn't do anything (probably).
I'm a Correspondent and would be delighted to lecture at your orphanage.
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The Master
Posts: 804
4/1/2016
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Any sources for bundles of oddities that aren't luck based(I mean actions like fun with fisher kings that are a luck check to get the bundle), bundles of oddities seem to be the only sources of scraps that you don't get through cards.(And yes, I already have all the lodgings that give scrap expect the Knife and candle one, I only need a way to get scraps without having to use cards).
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking
A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath.
No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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Wiwo
Posts: 365
4/2/2016
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The Student Body would be just the ticket if you aren't done with the university storyline just yet. Otherwise, I think getting Urchins rep and flipping cards in the Flit is probably the best you're going to do.
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Wiwo. Almost certainly not a squid in a cunningly tailored suit. Surely.
Care for some cider? Here's how to ask me for some. Strange pranks strongly preferred.
Care to pet a Heptagoat? Too bad. It doesn't do anything (probably).
I'm a Correspondent and would be delighted to lecture at your orphanage.
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Psirynn
Posts: 2
4/3/2016
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So, I just came back to FL from a long absence and started my character over. I'm primarily Persuasive, and want to focus on the Great Game (not the smartest combination, I know), but I'm not sure where to go to increase either of those further. Persuasive is 43, so I'm not really high enough to do stuff in the Palace yet (and can't afford to get there anyway), but everything I'm finding is either extremely unlikely to succeed or 100% and gives almost no Persuasive gain. Am I missing something? Should I just keep playing cards and hoping? And on the Great Game (4, currently), I can't really find any ways to increase it much. I've done the Tattooed Courier storylet, but everything else that seems to increase it requires higher than I have to start. So yeah, could definitely use some pointers on both counts.
Also, it feels so, so good to be back.
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Vavakx Nonexus
Posts: 892
4/3/2016
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Psirynn wrote:
So, I just came back to FL from a long absence and started my character over. I'm primarily Persuasive, and want to focus on the Great Game (not the smartest combination, I know), but I'm not sure where to go to increase either of those further. Persuasive is 43, so I'm not really high enough to do stuff in the Palace yet (and can't afford to get there anyway), but everything I'm finding is either extremely unlikely to succeed or 100% and gives almost no Persuasive gain. Am I missing something? Should I just keep playing cards and hoping? And on the Great Game (4, currently), I can't really find any ways to increase it much. I've done the Tattooed Courier storylet, but everything else that seems to increase it requires higher than I have to start. So yeah, could definitely use some pointers on both counts.
Also, it feels so, so good to be back.
The GG Is hard to increase in general. I would recommend getting a sulky bat for early-game gains. You may want to increase your church connection a little to run into their conflict card and farm GG that way.
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Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness.
Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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Wiwo
Posts: 365
4/4/2016
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Vavakx Nonexus wrote:
Psirynn wrote:
So, I just came back to FL from a long absence and started my character over. I'm primarily Persuasive, and want to focus on the Great Game (not the smartest combination, I know), but I'm not sure where to go to increase either of those further. Persuasive is 43, so I'm not really high enough to do stuff in the Palace yet (and can't afford to get there anyway), but everything I'm finding is either extremely unlikely to succeed or 100% and gives almost no Persuasive gain. Am I missing something? Should I just keep playing cards and hoping? And on the Great Game (4, currently), I can't really find any ways to increase it much. I've done the Tattooed Courier storylet, but everything else that seems to increase it requires higher than I have to start. So yeah, could definitely use some pointers on both counts.
Also, it feels so, so good to be back.
The GG Is hard to increase in general. I would recommend getting a sulky bat for early-game gains. You may want to increase your church connection a little to run into their conflict card and farm GG that way.
Definitely a tricky connection. You might stop by the carnival sideshows to get it up to 5 (in range of conflict cards), then convert Church faction to Great Game.
Check out this guide. It has some other suggestions that could help around the edges.
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Wiwo. Almost certainly not a squid in a cunningly tailored suit. Surely.
Care for some cider? Here's how to ask me for some. Strange pranks strongly preferred.
Care to pet a Heptagoat? Too bad. It doesn't do anything (probably).
I'm a Correspondent and would be delighted to lecture at your orphanage.
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Psirynn
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4/4/2016
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Thank you muchly!
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Hazel
Posts: 69
4/4/2016
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Does the 'A Power in the Waiting' quality have broad effects, outside of completing the Affair of the Box? I am sympathetic to the cause and so on, but also I like power and wealth. Will siding against the Masters (...ish) have repercussion?
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"I can walk in the Mirror-Marches at the edge of dreams as easily as I might promenade in Tyrant's Gardens."
Skymaw & Belle Dame
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