To my knowledge, there is nothing you can do to speed it up directly. Going in and out of your lab to refresh the cards is probably the best method available.
I looked at the Fallen London discord, and after completing it myself, here are the results for the 5 possible endings during the Heart’s Desire Conclusion:
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If you choose Power, you request to become a Master of the Bazaar yourself. You are then given a special Master’s Cloak, the title of Mr Cards, and have to undergo monthly Red Science modifications to slowly-but-surely turn your biology into that of a Curator. In about a century, you will be granted all of the power and authority, and will become indistinguishable from the Masters themselves.
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If you choose Love, the Masters outright tell you that giving you True Love is impossible even for them [it can’t be manufactured], and you are redirected back to the list of choices. True Love is then replaced with Adoration, and if you choose this option, the Masters use their influence to make you into a super-popular long-lost member of the Traitor Empress’s family, going so far that you are likely the Empress’s heir to the throne since her other children are "too problematic".
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If you choose Time, the Masters send a regular supply of the Gracious Widow’s peach brandy to you and – more importantly – give you the original contract that the Empress signed to sell London to the Bazaar. You are now the legal owner of London, and the contract has been amended so that they legally cannot destroy London or orchestrate the fall of the Sixth City without your permission, or unless there is no other option. Essentially, you bought both yourself and London a great deal of time.
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If you choose Escape, the Masters give you an far-north Surface estate around the size of Luxembourg that connects directly to the Travertine Spiral. They reason that since the mansion is located very far North, it will be dark enough during half of the year to safely venture and enjoy the Surface without dying. [The Masters did mention settling Aestival, but it was denied]
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If you let the Monkey win, he ends the Marvellous and you get not one, but two unique items: a Marvellous Monkey and the Marvellous deck, both giving bonuses to Player of Chess.
Heart’s Desire is probably the Ambition with the best kind of rewards as a result.
edited by The Curious Watcher on 8/6/2020
edited by The Curious Watcher on 8/6/2020
[quote=The Curious Watcher]I looked at the Fallen London discord, and after completing it myself, here are the results for the 5 possible endings during the Heart’s Desire Conclusion:
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If you choose Power, you request to become a Master of the Bazaar yourself. You are then given a special Master’s Cloak, the title of Mr Cards, and have to undergo monthly Red Science modifications to slowly-but-surely turn your biology into that of a Curator. In about a century, you will be granted all of the power and authority, and will become indistinguishable from the Masters themselves.
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If you choose Love, the Masters outright tell you that giving you True Love is impossible even for them [it can’t be manufactured], and you are redirected back to the list of choices. True Love is then replaced with Adoration, and if you choose this option, the Masters use their influence to make you into a super-popular long-lost member of the Traitor Empress’s family, going so far that you are likely the Empress’s heir to the throne since her other children are "too problematic".
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If you choose Time, the Masters send a regular supply of the Gracious Widow’s peach brandy to you and – more importantly – give you the original contract that the Empress signed to sell London to the Bazaar. You are now the legal owner of London, and the contract has been amended so that they legally cannot destroy London or orchestrate the fall of the Sixth City without your permission, or unless there is no other option. Essentially, you bought both yourself and London a great deal of time.
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If you choose Escape, the Masters give you an far-north Surface estate around the size of Luxembourg that connects directly to the Travertine Spiral. They reason that since the mansion is located very far North, it will be dark enough during half of the year to safely venture and enjoy the Surface without dying. [The Masters did mention settling Aestival, but it was denied]
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If you let the Monkey win, he ends the Marvellous and you get not one, but two unique items: a Marvellous Monkey and the Marvellous deck, both giving bonuses to Player of Chess.
Heart’s Desire is probably the Ambition with the best kind of rewards as a result.[/quote]
Dear Lord and all the false saints! And here I stood believing that I knew my heart desire. But this? Oh my!
My character saw his Destiny, and it is to spread his (its?) wings in the High Wilderness. I guess I know what he would choose.
Does finishing this ambition grant access to a special lab assistant?
Alright, I admit it. These rewards are boss. Was kinda disappointed with the climax compared to the other ambitions ( particularly nemesis) and the whole monkey thing still upsets me, but these rewards don’t just blow all the other ambition rewards out of the water, they send them blasting off skyward like team rocket.
A massive surface estate? Becoming a member of the royal family? OWNING London and living forever? MASTERHOOD?!
I can’t even begin to decide.
edited by Jules Asimov on 5/6/2020
edited by Jules Asimov on 5/6/2020
Are there echos for the other endings yet? My ambition was Nemesis, so I can’t play through the other ambitions. I still wanna read them though!
Ending for Time.
Ending for Escape.
Ending for Cancelling All Subsequent Marvellous Matches.
Ending for Adoration
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Does anyone have the item descriptions for the various rewards?
[quote=The Curious Watcher]I looked at the Fallen London discord, and after completing it myself, here are the results for the 5 possible endings during the Heart’s Desire Conclusion:
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If you choose Power, you request to become a Master of the Bazaar yourself. You are then given a special Master’s Cloak, the title of Mr Cards, and have to undergo monthly Red Science modifications to slowly-but-surely turn your biology into that of a Curator. In about a century, you will be granted all of the power and authority, and will become indistinguishable from the Masters themselves.
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If you choose Love, the Masters outright tell you that giving you True Love is impossible even for them [it can’t be manufactured], and you are redirected back to the list of choices. True Love is then replaced with Adoration, and if you choose this option, the Masters use their influence to make you into a super-popular long-lost member of the Traitor Empress’s family, going so far that you are likely the Empress’s heir to the throne since her other children are "too problematic".
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If you choose Time, the Masters send a regular supply of the Gracious Widow’s peach brandy to you and – more importantly – give you the original contract that the Empress signed to sell London to the Bazaar. You are now the legal owner of London, and the contract has been amended so that they legally cannot destroy London or orchestrate the fall of the Sixth City without your permission, or unless there is no other option. Essentially, you bought both yourself and London a great deal of time.
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If you choose Escape, the Masters give you an far-north Surface estate around the size of Luxembourg that connects directly to the Travertine Spiral. They reason that since the mansion is located very far North, it will be dark enough during half of the year to safely venture and enjoy the Surface without dying. [The Masters did mention settling Aestival, but it was denied]
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If you let the Monkey win, he ends the Marvellous and you get not one, but two unique items: a Marvellous Monkey and the Marvellous deck, both giving bonuses to Player of Chess.
Heart’s Desire is probably the Ambition with the best kind of rewards as a result.[/quote]
GOOD LORD.
I never expected to be jealous of anyone else’s Ambition reward. After some turmoil over whether I should’ve eaten Third City Veils, I genuinely thought I got everything I could possibly want, realistically, out of my Vake steed. But that POWER choice. Wow, just. Wow. I did not anticipate the Masters being capable of that.
…did the discord mention anything about how Ambitions connect to your Destiny? At the moment I have a certain Destiny involving a trip to the Sun with the other Masters I apparently abandon halfway. Which. Which your character would seem to be far closer to achieving than mine unless something…silly happens.
(Many years later, in the High Wilderness)
Mr. Wines: "Ah, look everyone! It’s our esteemed colleague, Mr. Veils! I trust you have recovered after your…leave of absence?"
Man controlling the flight of Mr. Veils by means of straps, ropes and pulleys tying him to the belly of the space bat like a paraglider: "Yes. Yes, I am Mr. Veils. That is definitely who I am. How do you do, my fellow space bats?"
Curator Veils: I AM HUNGRY, CAN WE EAT FIRST?
Man controlling the flight of Mr. Veils by means of straps, ropes and pulleys tying him to the belly of the space bat like a paraglider: "Shhhhyoureblowingourcover"
All Ending Reward Stats and Item Descriptions, saving you all from a trip sorting out hundreds of messages on Discord. I haven’t visited the lab yet so I can’t verify any lab assistants at the moment. Also, the items are epic in their own way so its better to focus on RP than BiS stats.
Watcher, you are a saint for providing these, thank you
I, uh, I feel like a self-entitled jerk for asking, given everything already done, but, uh, do you have the name for the deed and the mansion? Sorry.
Also, Thank you So friggin much. This is a big help.
Also Also, now I’m stuck between power and time. Stupid Choice Paralysis.
[spoiler] On the one hand, fufill the destiny I worked for so long to aquire out of game, and become a master of the friggin Bazaar.
On the other, stick it to the masters in such a beautiful and magnificent way that I can’t think of any better manner to do it. I mean, the whole ‘they go dead silent’ thing is just beautiful.
Both seem like they’ll get me all sorts of power in game. The former is straightforward masterhoodom. The latter literally gives you London. The former takes a while but is guaranteed power. The latter sticks it to them worse than canceling the marvellous would havew, and clearly has a more moral vibe to it, but they might screw you over depending on what ‘reasonable’ means and it might not mean much in the in-universe long run.
Decisions, Decisions. [/spoiler]
edited by Jules Asimov on 5/7/2020
edited by Jules Asimov on 5/7/2020
edited by Jules Asimov on 5/7/2020
Nemesis was a wonderful story and it was very satisfying to get my brother back, but the rewards for this ambition are something else.
[quote=Jules Asimov]I, uh, I feel like a self-entitled jerk for asking, given everything already done, but, uh, do you have the name for the deed and the mansion? Sorry.
Also, Thank you So friggin much. This is a big help.
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If you want, you can stalk Discord for those details, I certainly have no reason to.
I was already a pretty big Master shill and Bazaar worshipper before this, but now that I’m officially a part of the fold, I’m going to abuse this aspect of myself as much as possible. The words I spoke to Fires about my political opinions are strangely prophetic for this reason. I was also a Master in my original Destiny before I switched to Backstage, so I am looking forward to dominating and controlling the other Masters as well.
Mr Cards’ How-To Guide to Bring the Masters to Their (Figurative) Knees For Both Profit and Fulfilling the Original Mission:
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Kill Veils, put the Bazaar in debt, and take over its taxation rights and business properties (possibly stealing his identity as Veils as well). In the future, I intend to use the money to set up a gambling business – the House of Cards – that will allow one to gamble anything for anything, securing both profits and power over the criminal underworld. Mr Wines will also be a willing ally of mines in the future for me doing its dirty work.
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Kill Cups not because he killed a loved one (if I ever had any), but because his stories of love and vengeance could lead the Bazaar into joining the Liberation of Night to lash out against its unfair situation, and that is bad for business. Replace the story with one of loss to advise the Bazaar to have pity on humans, and use my status as a dual Master slayer to get everyone to fear and respect the young"Mr Cards",
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Save the Hybrid, and purposely train it to one day rule over the Roof, granting me great power and influence there should I need it. When the time is right, I will pull a grand betrayal by explaining and providing proof to the Masters and the Bazaar that Fires has been trying or tried to ruin their mission of thousands of years for the sake of one city, and once they abandon him, sicc the hybrid and its forces to get their revenge. With less Masters, they will be forced to give me more power to compensate for the power vacuum, and I become one of the leading Masters at this point.
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Once the Bazaar’s mission is done (hopefully in a success), it has to reward me for my service. Since it cannot offer me redemption unlike the others, it will have to offer something of great value to me to fund my crazier schemes.
That is assuming that the other Masters, the Bazaar, the Calendar Council, and Mr Eaten don’t kill me first for living on the wild side. Fortune favors the bold, however, and if the Marvellous has taught me anything, a Great Game is interesting only because of its wild stakes.
edited by The Curious Watcher on 5/7/2020
edited by The Curious Watcher on 8/6/2020
Well, my friend was tired of my heming and hawing, and he chose power for me while I was in the bathroom. So, uh. Guess that answers that!
Will there be a new master at Christmas now? Or with how many of these ambitions have unfolded, will there fewer Masters?
edited by Winthropx on 5/7/2020
[quote=Winthropx]Will there be a new master at Christmas now? Or with how many of these ambitions have unfolded, will there fewer Masters?
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It’ll just be Mr Wines running around with a gaggle of assistants holding cue cards instructing him on what to do next