In all the theorising, I’d completely forgotten about Sister Lydia. That’s absolutely what happened. :D
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Omigawd, how could you forget Sister Lydia?! :P
She’s awesome ^^
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/23/2016
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Sister Lydia become a recurring character as the year goes on.
The real conspiracy theory is that Sister Lydia is laying the ground work for her own mayoral run next year.
Regarding Plenty’s desire for fish and catches, there are snippets here and there regarding her appetites. There is a "bonus" storylet for the season of Heart’s Blood that gains you entry to an elite group of gourmands’ dinner. It is a special dinner, at least as implied by the lead up to the actual feasting. You join Mrs. Plenty and together sample an array of dishes. There’s also a bit of a snippet in the Eaten content that hints at her "tastes" coming from both her upbringing on Mutton Island and her status as a maiden of wells…
I agree that simple explanations are best in this case. Jenny does seem to love to perform every time you meet her prior to the election and the festival.
Edit: I finally got the last item I needed this year, the blasted Scrimshander Carving Knife. It took the better part of a week to land it, even managing to roll 3-5 constantly by using my one or two under-leveled quirks. I can finally resume my hobbies of Vake-hunting and well-diving.
edited by Stygota on 8/24/2016
edited by Stygota on 8/24/2016
Ha ha! I finaly got you!
Now back to London, convert Zee-Ztories and go for 13!
Kate, that’s been my situation exactly–with both my main and my alt (though my alt’s quirks are much lower, and more variable, on average). Still, my alt has been having a terrible time getting the last Festival item for her collection–the boots.
I’m still trying to get that blasted Scrimshander Carving Knife.
And on a related note, can anyone verify that the challenges to a quirk will still appear if that quirk is zero? As my only low stat, I dropped Forceful to zero,* but then haven’t seen any Forceful challenges. Do I need at least a point of Forceful?
*in the hopes of being able to get below five Running Battle, as it’s nearly impossible for me to fail any of the challenges
From my experience, they will still appear. (And the RNG will have a sudden love for you, thus preventing you from raising it)
Thanks! I finally got one. I had managed to make it all the way through twice without seeing Forceful, and was starting to wonder.
My nightmares got to high and I went back to my lodgings. How do I get back to the festival?
[quote=Vexpont]
…even though following through ‘The Mayor is at the Feast!’ plays out just the same, and my alt-self just had a touching conversation with Jenny about her callow youth, and how she cast her wimple into the sea…while I was actually wearing the thing on my own head.
But having NPC’s notice what you’re wearing would be a raving nightmare to code for. And after all, no-one comments if you attend Court in your underthings and a pirate hat, which I’ve mentally rationalised as due to extreme British reserve.[/quote]
dissolves into giggles I like you~
Go back to Wolfstack and catch a Ferry. If you don’t have Wolfstack unlocked, there is a friendly Urchin at your lodging who can help get you there.
[quote=th8827]
Go back to Wolfstack and catch a Ferry. If you don’t have Wolfstack unlocked, there is a friendly Urchin at your lodging who can help get you there.[/quote]
Yes the urchin was there thank you.
I think the Mayor is going to become a regular feature at every festival. The Mayoral storyline is a strictly chronological that it slowly progresses throughout the year. The presence of the Mayor in a regular or Exceptional story would date them and create continuity issues. Festivals however are also chronological events, the 1894 Festival of the Zee isn’t the 1893 Festival, and so the Mayor’s story can be safely told during them. So look forward to Jenny appearances during Hallowmass, Sacksmas, and the Feast of the Exceptional Rose.
I’m just saying, when was the last time you saw a cow in the neath? (or you know, goat cheese I suppose.)
hard to do w/ high quirks
Most of the Zee Catches during the Festival have been between 7 and 9 when I reeled them in. That got me (by chance and the RNG) just about all of the special items for this year. I gave up with my main and spent my last 5 Fate for the Scrimhander Knife, and my alt is still struggling to get the boots–her Strange Catch keeps getting chopped down to below the minimum for the boots when she turns it in.
The moral of this story is that I would recommend against trying to get a really low Strange Catch unless you were going for the low items. For everything else, it’s better to aim higher and assume that the value will be chopped down.
[quote=Catherine Raymond]Most of the Zee Catches during the Festival have been between 7 and 9 when I reeled them in. That got me (by chance and the RNG) just about all of the special items for this year. I gave up with my main and spent my last 5 Fate for the Scrimhander Knife, and my alt is still struggling to get the boots–her Strange Catch keeps getting chopped down to below the minimum for the boots when she turns it in.
The moral of this story is that I would recommend against trying to get a really low Strange Catch unless you were going for the low items. For everything else, it’s better to aim higher and assume that the value will be chopped down.[/quote]
I finally got the Scrimshander Carving Knife. But it took a lot of Running Battle / Zee Catches at level 5. I managed to get level 3 once. (I wasn’t tracking it, but it was at least two days worth of actions just trying for the Scrimshander Knife.) If you can try for level 4, you’ll probably have better luck fishing for the Knife.
It’s just really hard when you have high quirks that you don’t want to sacrifice.
I’ve seen QUITE A LOT of this ever since the election stuff. It’s getting slightly exhausting.[/quote]
But seriously, as much as I enjoy a bit of speculation it has gotten a bit out of hand lately; we should try to keep it this side of the Shadowland BBS.
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[quote=Pnakotic]
But seriously, as much as I enjoy a bit of speculation it has gotten a bit out of hand lately; we should try to keep it this side of the Shadowland BBS[/quote]
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the forum’s election speculation has ever crossed the line into the truly outlandish. It’s predominately been focused on the parties and issues involved.
[quote=Anne Auclair][quote=Pnakotic]
But seriously, as much as I enjoy a bit of speculation it has gotten a bit out of hand lately; we should try to keep it this side of the Shadowland BBS[/quote]
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the forum’s election speculation has ever crossed the line into the truly outlandish. It’s predominately been focused on the parties and issues involved.[/quote]
I’m not sure where I’d define "outlandish" in the context of the Neath. It doesn’t strike me as the best benchmark for where speculation might be getting a bit excessive.
After all, it’s not so much that cheese made from sipiders… or by spiders… or via some sort of strange commission for spiders, is in any way an impossibility or even altogether unlikely down here, but that there hasn’t been any confirmation by story or dev statement that we are all enjoying delicious, delicious spider cheese with our lovely mushroom wine at our poorly-illuminated subterranean soires.
And so far as speculation in general goes, there’s building analytically from the known premises to the logical conclusion, or inferring the same from defined patterns and allusions, and then there’s plain wild guessing and making things up.
If I’ve just steamed past the Island of Lactating Spiders and had a lovely tea with the Arthropodal Dairyman, spider cheese seems more and more like a safe conclusion; if it’s Thursday morning and the false-stars are twinkling especially brightly and all things are well and a Reluctant Dolphinmonger comes knocking at my door and I leap to my feet in delight squealing "HE’S SELLING SPIDER CHEESE!", then, well… um… where was I?
Um, right, not so much to draw the conclusion from there. That’s what I was getting to…
And yes, during Election there was a great deal of wild guessing and far too much ascribing of imagined motives to various characters and that’s probably a good bit of why things got somewhat heated on the forums. So I’m hoping it all stays safely in the rearview.