I don’t remember the action which caused that. It was an opportunity card. But I do remember some challenges (I don’t remember which ones ^^) causing the loss of some CP of a main quality.
What I mean is that it’s not the first time it happened, but with the Notability boost, it’s way more painful hahaha !
edited by Emain Ablach on 5/2/2015
Last Thursday I decided to run the fidgeting writer with the 300 odd Tales of Terror that I had. Between Thursday and Friday I received 7 Coruscating Souls which was amazing. But since then the RNG has been exacting harsh vengeance upon me for my crimes against basic probability. In the week that followed I completed the run but only got 1 more Coruscating Soul and the streak I’m on of failed conversions of Black Lenses is a little ridiculous. The RNG givith and the RNG taketh away I guess.
[li]So, setting up a second character can be an interesting process, which was why I was surprised to think up a very old-school and conservative name up for my character so quickly and easily. Turns out the name was literally too Conservative, as in I’d accidentally used the name of a major Conservative politician. Guess I’ll have to de-activate that account and set up another one.
David Cameron appreciates your discretion.[/li]
There was that time earlier today that something-or-other happened in the Cave of the Nadir. I think. Or maybe I just heard about that somewhere.
I won my first moon league golden hunt a on a vastly against my odds attack, then failed to notice I needed to select a particular option to get assassin of assassins. Then I went in for a rematch set up the attack in my favor… and lost.
Almost copy-pasting from a thread I opened some days ago: the harshest failures are the one you can’t blame anyone but yourself…
My character has fought against nightmares and shortage of money to gather enough resources to find out the route for the Tomb of Seven; then she reached its forgotten ground just before her rivals could ruin all her efforts (Rival’s Progress 9); a painful but exciting struggle, it felt good.
Finally, she held in her hands the Correspondence Stones. She returned to the slightly-more-mapped part of the Forgotten Quarter and found a vicious deviless aiming to usurp her conquest.
Now, due to a catastrophic misreading, the Stones are seemingly gone forever in the direction of the Tomb-Colonies, along with a cherished relationship with the Brass Embassy (24 levels of connection with Devils, my highest value).
The shock has been so bad (in- and off-game) that she wandered the Quarter looking desperately for them until she finally crashed in the Mirror Marshes…
Another 100 Tales of Terror spent, another fat zero Coruscating Souls to show for it.
I think I need help.
I’ve been carefully holding onto a little omen for months. I am about 200 echoes away from my ubergoat, and consequently getting my sotc to 21. I was on my mobile and something glitched out with the cards as I was discarding something else…and I lost the little omen too. I could cry.
A small thing, perhaps, in the grand scheme of things, but… I’ve been hanging on 11 ‘Talk of the Town’ for a downright ANNOYING period of time, waiting for another polite invitation to appear so I could finally get that last bit and turn it in for something useful. And it finally came! Another day, another party, another handful of Confident Smiles spent ensuring success on the cards. Then with 2 ‘Time Passing…’ to go, and a single change-point being all that was missing before I hit the big 12 ToTT, I get the Jovial Contrarian’s card. I fail the persuade-check on ‘…is about to give a Whiskered Admiral a fit’ three times in a row, despite decent odds. Watching my dwindling supply of Confident Smiles, I shrug and take a last stab at it without insurance - I’m only missing ONE CP, after all, so even if I fail, I should have no trouble picking it up on the last round.
Which is when I find out that failing the check on that particular card gets you kicked out of the party instantly. Do not pass go, do not collect Favors in High Places. -_-
Of course, that also means that NEXT time I get an invitation to a party - however long THAT might take - I’ll basically be scooping up a single CP of ToTT and otherwise wasting half a dozen actions just getting through to the end. BAH!
You have my sympathy, BlakeTheDrake. Don’t worry though - TotT doesn’t reset, just drops a bit, so the extra will carry over for the next time you need one.
One question though - if you’re after Favors in High Places, why not just upward convert?
edited by RandomWalker on 5/31/2015
[quote=RandomWalker]You have my sympathy, BlakeTheDrake. Don’t worry though - TotT doesn’t reset, just drops a bit, so the extra will carry over for the next time you need one.
One question though - if you’re after Favors in High Places, why not just upward convert?
edited by RandomWalker on 5/31/2015[/quote]
Eh, now that I think about it, I think I was actually planning to grab a Personal Recommendation… but of course, that doesn’t change the question. The simple answer, though, is that I need a bunch of stuff and I don’t have enough ‘parts’ for them all, so picking up a ‘freebie’ from the party-circuit (especially when I’m so bloody close) would be quite helpful.
's nice to know that the ‘excess’ ToTT stays with me, though…
In the vein of what Huey said earlier about the most painful failures being the ones you can’t blame anyone but yourself for:
Got myself all scandal’d up and kicked out to the tomb colonies so I could get a Tomb Lion for some Theological Husbandry. Spend 2 entire days cycling my opportunity deck trying to get the tomb lion card to show up. After 100+ card draws and no tomb lion, I’m beginning to wonder if something funky is going on, so I decide to write an email to Failbetter.
During the process of writing my email 1 card has refreshed so I draw it before sending my email off in a last-ditch effort. It’s a tomb lion–finally! Huzzah! And then…I realize the option to take the Lion with me back to London requires a Tincture of Vigor, and…I don’t have one with me. Doh.
Not a particularly punishing failure–time and actions spent were the only thing I really used, but spending all those actions and having to come home empty handed because of my own poor planning… That is a special kind of self-inflicted hurt right there.
The latest one, not sure if it counts as failure.
I driven someone to a point I think he already broke, at the end it just turn out some secret I could find elsewhere.
If I spare the man, it takes more time to find the same secret maybe, but at least I won’t brake someone.
On the latest Heart’s Desire expedition. At 49 progress. And Virginia swoops by. Argh! That’s a LOT of supplies lost :(
Pretty minor compared to some of these horrific tragedies I’ve read here, but I came home slightly drunk one night and finished collecting enough Prisoner’s Honey to sponsor an expedition to the Unterzee. At Wolfstack, because I was drunk and unfocused, I clicked the “put to Zee” button instead, and locked myself into a lengthy voyage. I was confused as hell when I found myself at zee, I wasn’t sure what had happened.
I like to think my character was also drunk when it happened, so he staggered down to the docks and came to on his ship, bleary-eyed, face marked with the pile of netting he was using as a pillow, with no memory of how he got there. And then his crew just looked at him expectedly and rather than admit what happened and ask them to turn the ship around, he just started yelling orders and decided to head for Mutton Island at random.
[quote=DeserterKalak]Pretty minor compared to some of these horrific tragedies I’ve read here, but I came home slightly drunk one night and finished collecting enough Prisoner’s Honey to sponsor an expedition to the Unterzee. At Wolfstack, because I was drunk and unfocused, I clicked the "put to Zee" button instead, and locked myself into a lengthy voyage. I was confused as hell when I found myself at zee, I wasn’t sure what had happened.
I like to think my character was also drunk when it happened, so he staggered down to the docks and came to on his ship, bleary-eyed, face marked with the pile of netting he was using as a pillow, with no memory of how he got there. And then his crew just looked at him expectedly and rather than admit what happened and ask them to turn the ship around, he just started yelling orders and decided to head for Mutton Island at random.[/quote]
I’ve had that happen before - mis-clicked on my phone and ended up wishing I could put my Zubmarine into reverse.
I think it would be really good if there was something like a "Last ashore: _____" quality, where it recorded which place you departed from (apply the effect when you put to Zee, for greater accuracy) - and then have an option to Turn Around and return to that place without spending all of your actions (and then some) trying to get to a destination.
(I really like your way of looking at it though. ^_^ )
I clicked the wrong button and sold my boat… <_< Had to buy it again. sigh Next times I’ll read the texts, even those I already read one hundred times.
In my, ah, excitement to play this month’s Exceptional content I decided to grind my Connected: Revolutionaries to 50, starting off by blowing up a statue.
I quite forgot that it required Casing…, and that I’ve been grinding Casing for weeks. So! I just lost about 100 or so levels of it. Blast.
edited by ashdenej on 7/2/2015
Not as painful as some of the others, but I was clicking away my last few actions before sleep in a bit of a daze, and when I drew “A dusty bookshop” I thought it was my room above a dusty bookshop and quickly clicked the first option on the card.
As the exceptional hat looked around waiting for a response, I realized I was going to be in a rare mood with no actions to take advantage of it. I’m pretty sure I had enough stockpiled to use my next mood to drive myself near the brink of insanity studying the Correspondence sufficiently to advance my profession, but instead I squandered the opportunity on nothing.