You are welcome, I also have to thank you for your original post on the matter. It set of quite a train of thought for me, made me realize some things I had never thought about and I wanted to share these. Cheers to the genuinely good discussions that can be had on these forums. Somewhat rare for an online place, it feels like.
Also I forgot in my praise for this event the fact that there was quite a manageable time corridor to start the second phase. I remember missing out on some content of GCO and since then always dread missing stuff. I appreciate that FBG is leaning more into the asynchronous nature of the game even with these âreal timeâ events.
While Iâm ambivalent about the changed icons, I have to say the Monstrous Anatomy one fits much better than the Zailing one unless there is something inherently dark, harrowing and terrible about knowing how to zail real good.
And honestly Fallen London being what it is, Iâm not 100% ruling that out. You can use Shapeling Arts to rearrange your bones and squeeze around bombs, Glasswork to peel yourself away from your own woundsâŚand Zailing to commune with the Creditor and your city-self, because apparently the skills for zeemanship and urban planning are interchangeable in a setting where both the Zee and the land are have certain sentiences permeating large swathes of their geography. The problem is how horrifyingly a given FL advanced skill actually can be used is impossible to determine until a given writer decides that yeah, the only way past this particular screaming wall of meat is to use Mithridacy to lie to it so hard itâs convinced to stop existing.
Oh, we are getting to the end of this soon. How sad. Oh well-with any hope it will return eventually. I wonât mind it becoming a yearly thing, certainly.
Weâve had other living world Beast of the Zee events before, so weâll probably get more. It probably wonât be the Fluke again though, in the past it was Midnight Whales and Lifebergs. So probably something new next time around.
Fewer than 20.
I hope there isnât, because if there is, it seems likely to me whoever gets it will (statistically) just be some random player who wonât share it on the wiki or in echo form, for whatever reason. With only one person, the odds of it being lost are high.
When turning in Valorous Deeds, some of the flavour texts are different. They refer to the fluke and at least one of them hints at this not being the last time this might happen.
Final Valorous Deeds count: 49. At the last glance before I logged off, there were only about 300+ remaining attacks for the Fluke. That number was fast dwindling as I targeted 48 (3x16) Valorous Deeds, at around mid-afternoon UK time.
It was really helpful to have Monster Hunter as a profession and having a Zub as the ship.
Final Valorous Deeds count: 28. As @fishandchips mentioned, being a monster hunter was very useful. I wanted to get around 30 valorous deeds, but oh well. Ended up getting my first two element of dawn, a bit of Khanate stuff(most importantly the 4-city airrag), bombs, alot of bassamer ingots for the railway and a whole mountain of souls.
I like those events.