[quote=Silentarius][quote=Parelle]
So, two things: With Name 6, I assume you’ve finished finding the Tomb of the Seven? [I didn’t go through the tracker myself, so I’m a bit vague on what it calls for.] Do you have a set of Correspondance Stones? After that, if I remember correctly, you may need to draw a card relating to the start of your University Career.
Also, given your other stats, it will be long time before you’ll reach POSI (as to complete the sequence you need to hit 100 in all 4 of the main stats). You may wish to take a breather here with Watchful and pursue one of the other tracks.[/quote]
[ul][li]Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. I thought I only had to hit a hundred in one quality to achieve an Advanced Profession… This is bad news.
[/li][li]May I bend your ear a tad longer on a few related matters?[/li][li]Yes, I found the Tomb of the Seven, and I have a set of Correspondence Plaques, but not enough to do anything. I suppose I have to keep going back to the Tomb.[/li][li]What is the tracker? It sounds useful in terms of recovering details of one’s past activities.[/li][li]What is the best way of achieving POSI? I know this may be a hopelessly vague question, but at least in very general terms?[/li][li]There is a tab in the game called PLANS which says "Plans help you keep track of your schemes and dreams" that sounds like the very thing I’ve been yearning for, but unfortunately I seem to have no plans at all, neither active nor completed. Is this something that kicks in much later in the game?[/li][/ul]Forgive the presumption in hitting you with so many questions - please feel free to ignore most of them![/quote]
Hi! As a relatively new player to Fallen London (not fresh new - I’m completing 6 months this week), I remember that most of your doubts were mine.
First, when you get 70 of a stat, the game do urge you to get an "advanced profession". My advice: use the training professions (you have to dump your current one, I assume it’s Watcher) to boost your other stats to 70. After that, you may have a better profession from the faction cards (such as "Court and Cell: the Constables). You need Connected: 25 to the respective faction (or some favours, in the Docks card) and one requirement or another. Raise your connections if needed, drop your current profession (if you’ve never done that, it’s in the "write a letter" storylet in your lodgings) and pick the one that suits your best. In the Constables card I mentioned, you can become a Watcher (a mix between spy and detective). Those professions pay better than the training ones and you get an item to boost two of your stats by at least +6.
These professions are upgradable (and the item gets better), but you need to be a POSI for it. You become a POSI by completing a long series of steps. The first one is to get a stat to 100 and draw a golden card with the Ambitious Barrister. Then, she will tell you what to do.
The Correspondence Stones trigger an event in which you get access to the University (and an academic gown). You can’t really miss it, even if you want to. Go to the university and start your Department of Correspondence (before this, you may play the storylets a bit and reach Term Passing… 10 to investigate a murder - each time you reach 10, you read a new step of the investigation and your progress is reset, so you have to raise your term passing… again).
Once you start your department of correspondence, you are offered lots of options, that again raise term passing… and there is one storylet that raises "investigating…". Raise investigating… to 10 a lot (and I mean at least 10 times) to unlock each step of the investigation. Once you are done with it, you Watchful will have skyrocketed and you will be able to pinpoint (or not…) the murderer. This reaches your Watchful tracker to its final level, 7.
The tracker can be found in the Myself tab, under "story". It’s called "A Name Written in Seven Secret Alphabets". Each stat have one "A Name…" tracker that goes to 7.
To have a plan, you just have to click on that red ribbon thing at the right side of a storylet. It only makes sure the storylet is pinned in your "plans" tab, so you can check it for requirements, or remember what you have to do next. You can unpin a plan whenever you feel like.
edited by Professor Strix on 6/27/2016