[quote=circe]I don’t have any Skulls at the moment, though I am thinking of collecting them to get a Ray Drenched Cinder.[/quote]I did that. It took nearly a week, doing very little else except playing some opportunity cards, clearing my hand through heists and promenades, and managing my Nightmares. I got around 25000 Whispered Secrets out of it, as well as rather a lot of Appalling Secrets and Tales of Terror.
I was really unlucky with my last Wander the Quarter - I managed to go from watchful 172 to 175 without finding a single skull. I’ll probably have another go when my stats are evened up a bit.
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I too am cursed with ill luck looking for these blasted skulls! It is driving me mad I tell you!
With watchful at 89, would it be easier for me to sell my only eyeless skull instead of clearing my opportunity deck when I draw skulls?
much, much easier to sell it for now[li]
edited by Finvara on 8/8/2013
It’s easy to clear your deck regardless of level; just go to the Pickpocket’s Promenade in the Alleys of Spite. If you sell your skull you might be kicking yourself when you need one for the Nadir.
How do I get RID of the Eyeless Skull? I’m upping my acquaintance with Revolutionaries, in case they want it. Is that the best way?[li]
[/li][li]You need Revolutionaries 6 - then just click on the Skull in your inventory. [/li][li]
Thank you, milady.
[/li][li]You need Revolutionaries 6 - then just click on the Skull in your inventory. [/li][li][/quote]
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This is a bit late, and I hope this doesn’t count as necroing, but you can also clear the skulls from your hand without getting rid of any other cards if your stats are low enough to dip below 60. Use a talkative rattus faber and whatever other minus-stat gear you have. When the stat in question goes under 60, the card just vanishes. Quite handy.
I found one almost immediately, but now I’m trying to get rid of it for the obvious reasons - nowhere near being able to seek the Nadir (only 45 Watchful, heh). My question is this - besides the carnival, are there any good ways to increase connections with Revolutionaries? They’ve always been the faction I’ve found hardest to gain favor with, besides the (obvious) Masters.
Revolutionaries Connections are tricky - Amber in the Well (card); The Tower of Knives (card) if you are an annoyance to Jack Of Smiles and, the only non-card option that will take you higher than the option at the carnival, Reaping the Academic Benefits: A Public Lecture if you are watchful enough and a Scholar of the Correspondence.
Ah, thank you.
It is also possible for one player to send a Skull to another, if the Skull-seeking player sends a request to someone who has one. There is another thread regarding trade/compensation on that scale.
Is there? I had looked for a thread before selling my skull to the NPC, as I know people are looking for them, but I couldn’t find one. Do you have a link?
Hm - I posted a new thread, but I don’t see it. Either I somehow failed to establish the thread, or it was deleted by The Masters.
Yes, that one. When I look under Singing Mandrake, page by page, I do not see that thread on any of the four pages of Singing Mandrake.
(Edit: I looked again, and now I do see it.)
I raised the same question in Bazaar under the topic "Funding an Expedition". If I may summarize your answer: you said that there was currently nothing which would match its value in a single transaction, but that new content might change that someday.
A player generously gave me a Skull; I will repay that player if I can, through perhaps an accumulation of many smaller favors; and if I should happen to find yet another Skull someday, then I will seek "pay forward" the favor, by offering that further skull to someone seeking the Nadir.
edited by Riley37 on 10/22/2013
Hmm. Unfortunately, I don’t really see a place to give and take skulls, like there is for Starveling Cats, or Seeking the Name. Which is a shame, because I’ve found another one. I could use the money, but at the same time, I’d like to help another player if I can. But I don’t want to hang onto the skull for any longer than I absolutely have to, because I’m fishing for a certain opportunity card at the moment and I don’t need the skull cards clogging up my opportunities. So I’m inclined to just sell it - whereas if I had a name of somebody who was looking for one, I’d just give it to them and be on my way.
Perhaps it would merit its own organized give-and-take thread. I don’t know - I haven’t been here long. The only problem I foresee is a… sense of compensation, I guess. The Starveling Cat is easy to give away, as holding onto it provides no benefit to a non-Seeker except the knowledge that they have a kitty (albeit a deranged, ravening, snarling beast of a kitty). The skull is a pain to hold onto, but it’s worth 62.50 echoes, which is a very nice bit of cash. Some people will be happy to just give them away (I would, if it didn’t mean holding onto it for an indefinite amount of time), but others won’t, or they’ll expect something in return.
Well, would several gift items - say, the ones which appear as gift boxes - be appropriate compensation? The Gift card comes up reasonably often, if one is flipping cards at a high rate.
I was given a Skull, by a generous player. I am seeking five more for a Nadir-related purpose. When that is done… if I knew that someone was all-but-Skull ready for their first Nadir expedition, then I would try to find one more Skull, to give to that person. I dunno if there’s a way to sort out those who want a Skull for Nadir, from those who just happen to want 62.50 Echoes. If a person’s profile shows that they have 80+ Supplies, that would be strong evidence.
So, those seeking to give and those seeking to receive, let’s ponder a workable arrangement.
edited by Riley37 on 10/24/2013
If you sell the location of the cave of the nadir, does that mean you can never go back there?