Working my way up to 5-card lodgings via Scraps, Airag Wine, and eventually Impossible Theorems
Was trading in Cryptic Clues into Whispered Hints at the University (I don’t know of any other action that gets more than 100 Whispered Hints per action, and I have Cryptic Clues to burn -
I get Sudden Insights and Investigating off the action too.
What’s the best use of Investigating?
Well, I can’t really recall any outside of that in University storyline. And you might wanna look for the cheaper option to acquire that particular Lodging (you are after Royal Beth, right?).
You can Raid a Message drop in the flit (it’s in the Chicanery Heights storylet). A success gives 270 cryptic clues, which you can then use to get more hints!
It is worth noting that succeeding completely resets your Investigating, so if you’ve got a lot of it built up it’ll just go to waste the first time you do it. I did this with 90 once. That was fun.
edited by Pumpkinhead on 3/29/2017
[quote=Pumpkinhead]You can Raid a Message drop in the flit (it’s in the Chicanery Heights storylet). A success gives 270 cryptic clues, which you can then use to get more hints!
It is worth noting that succeeding completely resets your Investigating, so if you’ve got a lot of it built up it’ll just go to waste the first time you do it. I did this with 90 once. That was fun.
edited by Pumpkinhead on 3/29/2017[/quote]
That is really the biggest issue with that. I think the best course of action would be to just proceed with University storyline, until the very last round of that carousel (so, just before it becomes unavailable) and then max out your profit out of it. That way, when you spend your Investigating, you will still have only one step left to do and it won’t be that much of a chore to raise it all over again.
If you’re after Whispered Hints specifically, are you after the Bazaar lodgings? If so, that’s the expensive way to get it.
If you’re POSI, then instead of the 80,000 Whispered Hints (800 echoes worth), you can buy the same lodgings in the Bazaar Side-Streets for 50 Bazaar Permits. If you have high enough Shadowy and a Gang of Hoodlums, you can get each Bazaar Permit in the Flit for 10 actions.
I’m using Whispered Hints and Docks Favors to get Supplies for Expeditions in the Forgotten Quarter. Doing Blue Heaven to get bottles of Airag to swap out for Tears of the Bazaar then Vial of Master’s Blood. (But also trying to upgrade the other two 4-card lodgings I have to 5-card)
Already spent 80,000 Whispered Hints to get 4-card lodgings. Also paid a lotta Honey for another 4-card lodgings, and something else for a third 4-card lodgings, I forget.
Kinda grindy sure but eh, just want to burn off my Notability 7 or 8 or something, figured lodgings was the way to do it.
If your goal is getting rid of your Notability, if you have a POSI specialization (or can get whichever of your stats to 200), you can get rid of all your Notability at once with one draw of An unsigned message.