3284 and counting. I did a few Marigold runs, but the vast portion has been in the Wreck of the St. Elmo, since that’s the only Hallowmas affiliation I don’t have. So Crew of the St. Elmo, here I come!
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I hit 7756 (277 Fool cash ins), got a companion (7759), switched a mask (7749) and did another Fool for 28 more. You can juggle with masks for -10 Spirit and companion upgrades for 3.
After the screenshot I went on with the rest of the companions and spirit increase.
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When the even ends in a couple of hours, I will end up with just a little over 3.8k Spirit of Hallowmas, not too bad and comparable to previous years.
Steeped in Transgression → The Cloak, Not the Dagger.
Protips:
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Always stock up on favours of all factions, at least 5 of 7. You can use them with ‘Call in favours’ anytime if you wish to dodge certain conflict cards.
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Watch your menace bar at all times when partying in Hallowmas, you don’t want the menace to jump from 6 to 8, that would especially suck with the Triple Crown (Suspicion), and you want to maintain your jail-free status.
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It is more efficient to exchange confessions on the second week, after you have received your second set of seven confessions. You might be lucky and not even need to exchange any. I didn’t exchange any confessions, and just needed to convert a few on the second week during the Spirit grinding.
The rewards for turning in confessions are unimpressive mundane items. Can you instead keep your confessions until next Hallowmass and see if you can use them then?
Of course not. That’s the whole point. 
Want ‘impressive’ reward items (companions)? Spend fate.
No, there has not been nor will there ever be fate spent by me. Thanks for the info that the confessions will disappear if not exchanged for the mundane items at the end of Hallowmass.
There’s always the possibility that unimpressive companions will gain impressive upgrades next Hallowmas, so get everything you can.
I don’t care about chasing Spirit of Hallowmas qualities or the generic rewards at the end. I did appreciate the opportunity to ride my Hellworm as much as possible to cash in that scandal, get the several hundred bonus Aeolian Screams, and collect gallons of Master’s Blood and Tears of the Bazaar all at the same time. And I still got about 1500 spirit for free that way without even trying. Hallowmas is always a highly profitable season for me.
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Ended with 3452. And I did end up with more Spirit from Suspicion than anything else, so I got my membership in the Crew of the St. Elmo, as I’d hoped - my Hallowmas affiliations are compleat!
My Knight of Hallowmas went from Level 5 (The Triple Crown, which happened, coincidentally, to be my mask this year) to Level 10 (The Florid Mortification).
I got all the companions and upgraded companions I wanted, too. Didn’t have to trade Confessions, but swapped a few at the parties. As usual, I didn’t swap or spend Confessions until after collecting the second round, of course.
I also finally got my last point of Putting The Pieces Together: The Drownies! I don’t know how I missed working on that the last couple of years, but finally got it done this time!
And since the only factions with whom I haven’t maxed renown are the Dangerous ones (well, also the revolutionaries, but meh), I picked up Feducci’s Lance for Fate, and then drew BOTH Mood cards while cycling cards to get back aboard the St. Elmo as often as possible. So I’ll be collecting favors with Society, Constables, Docks and Tomb Colonists from now till Sackmas (probably), so I can get the best use out of the Moods, once I hit the wall again, even with the Lance equipped.
And now the usual post-Hallowmas goodies! So, I for one, had a WONDERFUL Hallowmas! As I sincerely hope all of you did!
Thank you, FB!
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Or just accumulate them over the years. The +2 Glass bear looked quite great and +2 AotRS Fate companion too! Looks like we got alternatives for both of them this year. There’s no real need to spend Fate during events just o get “impressive” companions.
The times I spent Fate during events was more of a donation to FBG for their great work. And I got old, unimpressive items/companions; like the ‘For Your Own Good’ Compass and Pre-Emptive Guinea-Pig.
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Technically I think old confessions will hang around until next Hallowmas begins, but yes, you can’t carry them over from year to year.