I believe that when you start the Spirifer lay, you get an Importunate Constable automatically. Are you sure you don’t have one?
I should say, I received no notification of such impediment. But a second one turned up, a locked door or such. I suppose it would be convenient to know if such disabilities are active at the start of the Lay.
When you begin a Flash Lay there’s a point where you get a bunch of qualities, like “Your Mark” being set to the Spirifer or the Auditor, etc. That’s where the game tells you what Obstacles you begin with. (Is it random? Not sure – it might be fixed depending on the Mark?) If you do another Flash Lay and don’t see those showing up but do end up with one somehow, that’d be a bug report to file; they’re also supposed to all disappear at the end of the Flash Lay.
It appears to depend only on the Mark. Spirifier gets three and Auditor (the?) different three.
I really like it. I’ve played both the Auditor and the Spirifier several times. I don’t think it is too long. I do think the exit and get the reward card should be triggered at reaching 100 Progress, like it does in the Heists…though I did figure out to keep it in my hand if it showed up sooner. This is well crafted story telling and fun game construction. Thank you.[li]
Ms. Adler
I got the Opening: A Corrupt Constable card. When I click on it, the playing area goes blank, and then the card returns. When I begin another Flash Lay, it appears in my hand, but again, I can’t play it. Has anyone else had this problem? Do you know how to solve it?
Thank you.
Ms. Adler
When I finish the Flash Lay, I get the screen that includes "You No Longer Have One of These: A Corrupt Constable." And when I start another Flash Lay, the Corrupt Constable is there, face up, in my hand. Signing out and back into the game doesn’t effect that.
Thank you for responding.
Ms. Adler
I think sending an email to support would be the way to go here; there are a couple different ways they can fix that particular issue.
How do I email Support? I’ve been looking, but can’t find an address or link.
Thank you.
I’ve played through the Spirifer option and quite enjoyed it. It was fun having a long mini-game but the game wasn’t kidding on the recommended levels. At only 44 Persuasive it took me over three candles to succeed at the Flash Lay.
Like Brass Lion, I did feel like some of the cards were a bit generic and I did occasionally forget what character I was meant to be conning. I also wasn’t that keen on having obstacles already included beforehand. Especially as I really liked the Inopportune Constable story but didn’t get an intro to them until my progress was about twenty despite having my decisions already restricted by their presence. As this takes a lot of turns, I think it’d probably work if you didn’t start with any obstacles and you came across them as you went.
All in all, it was fun and helped me level up my Persuasive.
I played both stories and I loved them. Much more pleasant way to obtain the items from the reward instead of the usual click-repeat grinding.
I love minigames like this! I spent quite a while doing pickpocket’s promenade and, while it is still fun for me, I’ve leveled out of it quite a bit. The opportunity to choose which challenge to do on this game is wonderful! And I love ow it uses menaces instead of distance/attracting attention (or whatever those qualities are called) as you can reduce them without a luck check- I’m always failing those.
This content is wonderful!
I’m sorry if this has already been asked/answered, but I haven’t read this thread as I wanted to avoid spoilers before going into this for the first time (I’ve been busy and hadn’t taken the opportunity to try these yet.)
Are the Flash Lays only available for a period of time - like, do I need to rush and get them done before a certain date? Or will they be around for a while yet?
edited by Kittenpox on 1/21/2016
This is permanent content, no worries. Leave it long enough and it might get rebalanced/revised in response to all the feedback, but the content and basic mechanics will still be there to explore.
Cool! Thankyou for the reply. ^_^
it needs work but it was very enjoyable, it was an exciting and rewarding storylet. Very fun to play.
Agree! Just played through my first one (the auditor) and I liked it a lot. The gameplay is definitely more interesting compared to, say, the heists.