312,50 echoes ;)
It sells back for 312.5, but as with most things I find it is better to hoard than to resell.
I… seem to have inadvertently acquired 8 buckets of lacre. I hope there’s use for it, considering I have the 5-card lodgings. I guess I’ll find out in January!
Wow, it sells for only a 34.50 echo loss? Don’t almost all other items sell at half value? Am I missing something? Is there some reason I should not just buy it and sell it back if I don’t want to spend the whole 350? It is the best way to get Lacre from snow pails right?
You can keep it and resell it in February if 350 echos are a big difference for you. I haven’t really found another use to it, but I intent to keep it for other years. You never know when you might need something. But, then, again, it’s something you can re-buy.
Yes, it’s the best way to put the pieces together
The other use for the Semiotic Monocle is that it is the most Watchful and most Dangerous hat you can buy.
Why on earth would you want to sell it?
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I’m currently at Taste of Lacre 6, and have no Dreadful Surmise. So, is there any use that I can make of pails of snow?[li]
Is it possible (and worth it) to drop Taste to 5 so I can use a Semiotic Monocle to bring it up to 8?
Hold onto your snow and use it after Penstock’s Wicket opens.
With a Scholar of Correspondence quality of only five, giving me a 50% chance at success, I lucked out and raised the taste of Lacre to 8!!! Infernal Privilege, here I come!
(Anything that I should avoid before the Lacre shop thingamajig opens up? I really don’t want to accidentally lose my hard earned 8 points)
I think the only place that will lower it is the card in the Nadir that gives Tears of the Bazaar for 7 points of PtPT: The Taste of Lacre
Grr. I had looked at my stats back when first planning, and seen that I had Taste of Lacre 2. Today I finally drew the Ocelot a second time, then ground SotC to 11 at the University, and excitedly I grabbed my first bucket of snow and looked at it through the monocle… raising my Taste to 6.
I’m not sure where the other point came from. Maybe at some point I accidentally hit the advent calendar for the day that gave a point? I had been trying not to, but now when I go to it, I don’t get the usual “this is expired” or “you’ve used this code” messages or anything, it just spits me directly into the game without stopping at a code page first. So I am not sure what that means.
In any case, I guess I’ll be waiting for Mr Sacks and hoping to get a few points through that. My questions there- am I likely to be able to get to 9 this way? And, will I be missing out on other cool things by always taking an available “gimme some damn lacre” options? :)
You’ll probably hit 9 without too much trouble. Collect as much lacre as you can in the meantime.
i read it all and most of it makes sense to me. now about what didnt:
must i lose all levels of lacre when january ends or can i keep them for next year?
is the mr sacks story line last years equivalent to this years advent calendar or will both happen?
things you get via lacre are: secluded address lodgings, upgrades for the three 4 card lodgings, a noman, tears in the nadir. anything else?
cheers
If it’s like last year then we will see the start of the Mr Sacks storyline soon, and Penstock’s Wicket will open once that has concluded. After getting all you want from Penstock’s Wicket (I think you’re just missing the rewards for the 3 more expensive Fate-locked Sacks plotlines and a random option that doesn’t give anything unique) you will be able to keep the remaining Lacre levels for next year.
okay thanks. i see how being a new posi is somewhat depressing since you cant use it to the fullest. i am missing any 4 card lodging as well. maybe next year. (which is quite a long con i just realize)
As a warning, I chose to give Mr. Sacks a bucket of lacre and it didn’t increase my Taste of Lacre because it’s higher than 5. Wish I hadn’t burned the bucket, but oh well.
Also looking for someone who can PM the outcome of the ‘Are there many of you?’ Choice.
I did the same thing. It’s always hard to predict Sackmas content. Weirdly, I don’t seem to be a veteran despite having gone through this madness last year.
I’m also apparently not considered a Veteran of Mr Sacks, despite participating in the Christmas events.
I don’t know if the wiki is accurate on this, but it only lists the Christmas of 2011 event as giving this particular Veteran quality.
will we still get pails of snow in the next weeks? i got the monocle, but lost a modest challenge. ugh.
edit: nevemind, mr sacks increased my lacre level now. thanks mr sacks /s
edited by ochrasy on 12/26/2014