The Thirsty Croupier lays out a tarot card. “Sometimes the cards are esoteric. Sometimes they’re not. Looks like you, doesn’t it? And here you are.”
Airag from the Year of the Tortoise is notoriously expensive, but it pales in comparison to the Year of the Serpent. Nobody can afford it. It has not even finished fermenting yet; it exists only as a commodity for the future. If the Thirsty Croupier can be believed, it exists in your future. When will the legendary airag be ready to drink? Are the rumours about its ingredients true? Consult the cards. Interpret the spread. Taste a delicacy that does not yet exist.
Ooh nice. The Thirsty Croupier’s a character I’ve been curious about ever since his cameos during Evolution.
And another Chandler Groover story - his third for this year!
(Also, the story shares its title with a favourite song of mine.)
Ah, finally! A face to the name! I’ve got to say, I imagined him rather differently when I did Evo. Also, obligatory “this art reminds me of the spirit phone album art”-it does do that but I’m assuming it wasn’t intentional.
… I don’t really have the words for it? I would say “mysterious” and “in the background” but he actually features a lot near the end and is pretty important narratively. Besides that…well, you’ll just have to experience him for yourself when you do Evo! The whole thing is honestly a helluva experience and I’m sure you’d enjoy it…
I had no problem freeing the poor thing, but I’m stuck on whether to argue with Mr Thirst Trap (I’m hearing his lines in Ncuti Gatwa’s voice).
“THE PRESTER SAITH: When I die, yet shall I not die. The hour of my death shall be chosen, yet no man shall choose it. I am eternal, and yet my reign is circumscrib’d by law and Fate. I will feast at my funeral, and my child shall be my cup-bearer.”
This is from a Knife-and-Candle Medal, Order Vespertine, Monstrous, according to the wiki?
Lol i went for Object to the Croupier’s Interpretation and got bounced without special goodies apparently? Whoops! …oh, and i had
A Taste of the Garden text and lost a point of it immediately with a new dream card. :-/
The vanity text is [spoiler]"Arcana 200 - XIV: Temperance
THE PRESTER SAITH: My child shall sit at my left hand, and pour wine; and my child shall sit at my right hand, and break bread; and my children shall leave my house, and go into the world, and return to my house with wine and bread"[/spoiler]
I’m looking forward to it! Not sure how to get there tho…i need to get banished and do the governor thing first right, with Successful Term as Governor?
I just started opening up Parabola which is hella fun. Railway looks like an awful grind tho. And i just barely started in the Lab. I’m REALLY not thrilled abt some of the dissection requirements (i refused to do that in undergrad!).
“You’ll survive the bomb. You’ll escape the Khanate. And the gardener? Free to roam the Neath. It might wreak havoc. It might buy a villa somewhere and retire to sit on the veranda, sipping lemonade.”
I have to say i love this image, it’s very Groover.
I am that, but you need the Young Naturalist and that means going out in a blaze of glory with an opera i guess. I wasn’t done with all the different works of art but i guess you don’t do that for finishing MYN there?
[spoiler] Level 7
To get to the next level, you have to get banished from the Empress’ Court, visit the Foreign Office, and travel to Port Carnelian and serve at least one successful term as a Governor there. See Carving out a Reputation at Court (Guide)] for a detailed description. [/spoiler]
Meanwhile I’m just having fun in the Dome with the snakes, lol.
Oh no, you certainly don’t have to. I did that, but that was pretty inefficient of Me tbh. My personal advice is to stay at court for a bit and continue to make art until your tired of it if you enjoy it and then go out in a blaze of glory with that opera. But it course, that’s just my opinion as someone who enjoys that activity a lot, and I would urge you to seek out more opinions on the subject from other forum members.
Knowing from Sunless Skies that even the famous firkin-form of immortality is ultimately flawed, I shall temper my expectations.
Update: And done. Left the Sacristan to rot. I refuse to interfere with anyone else’s immortality grind after how tiresome mine was, and also b*gger Sacristans, I will not let go of my grudge against the College of Mortality enforcing the unspeaking fate of being eaten by a Judgement after death for no good reason
My Lord. That revelation was mind-blowing. Personally, I thought better of them! I thought these fellows were above this! I thought they made and drank normal substances. But no. It could never be that way. And so, I am left with the terrible, terrible knowledge that the Khagnians are actively trying to drink piss.
Everyone, I could use a little help - I’m feel like maybe I’m missing something. I’m at the point where my Arcana “Stories” value is sixty, I’ve drawn three cards, but none of them I’m able to play. Each of them require two “Insights” which I do not have. Do I leave the Thirsty Croupier to find these elsewhere? I won’t say I’ve looked everywhere, but I think I have everywhere that makes sense to me…
