I don’t know how to get the knive. I got all but the weapon. Three days fishing and nothing…
If you desire Docks Favours they can be ground through Mutton Island.
I’ve heard that you need a Cove value of 3. I’m personally trying to get it myself, so let’s both hope that’s correct.
I’ve heard that you need a Cove value of 3. I’m personally trying to get it myself, so let’s both hope that’s correct.[/quote]
I can confirm that. go for lower numbers for better odds, you want to get running battle of 3, at least, in a dream world. this isn’t a dream world, but 4 has better odds than 5, 5 has better odds than 6, and passing 6 just makes your chances worse. [which may make getting 3 impossible, and even if possible, unlikely.]
I think that it can be anywhere from full to half value, rounded down.
At 7, the half is 3.5, so you can get 7, 6, 5, 4, or 3.
At 6, the half is 3, so you can get 6, 5, 4, or 3.
At 5, the half is 2.5, so you can get 5, 4, 3, or 2.
At 4, the half is 2, so you can get 4, 3, or 2.
At 3, the half is 1.5, so you can get 3, 2, or 1.
Go with 4, because you have better odds at getting the knives, and the rewards for failing are higher half of the time. 6 is also a solid choice, if you care about EPA.
edited by th8827 on 8/21/2016
Does anyone else wish their was something you could do with your strange catch in order to raise your Making Waves? Like a weighing/measuring competition?
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/21/2016
[quote=Robin Alexander]Is anyone else getting pretty frustrated this year around?
Am I alone in this? :-S[/quote]
Yeah, I’m getting really frustrated. I’ve been fishing catches 8-10 and get nothing. I’ve spent around 30 Partial Maps and I lost count of all the other stuff. I also have burned entire sessions just trying to get the Hooded Lady and get nowhere.
I finally just got a catch 11. But the Lady wouldn’t come and all my menaces went out of control. There was no way I was giving up that catch 11 to lower my menaces. My nightmares broke 8 and my wounds just under 8. I finally got the lady, and finally got Cove 7 (my Wimple). But I was immediately banished to The Mirror-Marches where I am stuck now.
Oh, and I dropped from 200 for both Dangerous & Shadowy to 196 as a penalty.
Yes, I’m really frustrated.
Edit: fixed typo, added gripe
edited by squiggle on 8/21/2016
The moment I saw that the strange catch wiki article has no description for a strange catch with a value of 12, I knew. I knew that I will be the one to catch that which no one has caught before. Last year I failed to do so, but this year, after getting all items from wreckers’ cove, I resolved not to leave mutton island without my strange catch. I have spent countless actions, consumed over a hundred echos worth of partial maps, but now, at last, it will all be worth it. Because…because is not important. There is a short line of text to be found. Forget the rest. One last effort, five last change points to get my running battle to 12. Yes. Yes.
…no…
I’m pretty sure that this is the quote for 11. Check that you did not actually get 11 by mousing over it in one of the choices where you can use it.
I got 12. It’s on my mantelpiece. The description remains the same. There was no mystery here. Only ashes.
Congratulations!
Just a friendly warning. I think the catch disappears some time after the festival. My first festival, I got stuck with a catch because the festival ended before I could redeem it. I thought maybe I would be able to save the catch until the next festival, but I believe it disappeared maybe after a month.
[quote=squiggle]
Yeah, I’m getting really frustrated. I’ve been fishing catches 8-10 and get nothing. I’ve spent around 30 Partial Maps and I lost count of all the other stuff. I also have burned entire sessions just trying to get the Hooded Lady and get nowhere.
I finally just got a catch 11. But the Lady wouldn’t come and all my menaces went out of control. There was no way I was giving up that catch 11 to lower my menaces. My nightmares broke 8 and my wounds just under 8. I finally got the lady, and finally got Cove 7 (my Wimple). But I was immediately banished to The Mirror-Marches where I am stuck now.
Oh, and I dropped from 200 for both Dangerous & Shadowy to 196 as a penalty.
Yes, I’m really frustrated.
Edit: fixed typo, added gripe
edited by squiggle on 8/21/2016[/quote]
Patience, mate, patience! Got a lot of 7-10 (even 11s) turned into a 6, level 3 and 8 catch used to reduce menaces! After that, I decided to get my 7+ only from 11 which, after some failures, got me all of the festival items!
I even tried to get RB to 12, just for the fun, but didn’t made it!
Luckily…
Congratulations, mate! It would have been a pity to be in mystery this year as well!
Congratulations skinnyman! I was really favoured by the RNG this festival - I was able to leave the island with all unique items on Wednesday already. I may head back to talk to the wind for a couple of days, though.
That’s such a shame :(
Oh well, thank you for saving me the trouble of doing that ^^
The catch disappears when Time the Healer comes around, I believe.
Just want to confirm; the only way to get items from past festivals (the armoured guinea-pig, for example) is to pay fate for them? No way to catch them this time around?
Yes, sadly that’s correct.
Help the vake - by killing the poor.
Ok. I think, I’ve solved the mystery. It’s a bit weird!
On a different account, I found the first wimple and put it on my mantelpiece. Then I returned the wimple to Jenny and, unsurprisingly, the wimple disappeared from my mantelpiece. Now, ordinarily, if you have a quality on your mantelpiece that you lose and then later, without touching your mantlepiece, you regain, the quality will automatically reappear on the mantelpiece. This, for example, is what happens if you put a Bundle of Oddities on your mantlepiece. I tested it with items by equipping some clothing, selling it and then reburying it and again that’s exactly how it works.
So the interesting thing is that when I found the wimple again (without touching my now empty mantelpiece), it did not automatically reappear there.
So in fact, there are two distinct wimple items that appear identical but are not.
This obviously has interesting storyline implications, suggesting that one or both of the wimple that you find is not the genuine items. And hence, maybe, someone has been trying to manipulate Jenny using you (the player).
I think there is only one wimple. Two distinct versions of it exist only for game purposes, namely to avoid a second meeting.
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/22/2016