On regaining one's sold soul

Fallen London
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Actually, the Fate cost increases each time you pay Fate to retrieve your soul.

Getting your soul back this way raises a quality called &quotKnown For Metaphysical Caprice&quot (you don’t get this quality by finding your soul in a bundle of oddities!). I can’t find a reference to the exact formula of the Fate cost increase, but on the wiki, someone has noted that the third attempt to regain a soul with Fate cost 50 Fate instead of the original 15.

edited by dov on 1/8/2017[/quote]

Is that quality only used to increase the fate cost of buying your soul back? Or does it ever become relevant in stories?

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[quote=Harlocke][quote=dov]Getting your soul back this way raises a quality called &quotKnown For Metaphysical Caprice&quot (you don’t get this quality by finding your soul in a bundle of oddities!). I can’t find a reference to the exact formula of the Fate cost increase, but on the wiki, someone has noted that the third attempt to regain a soul with Fate cost 50 Fate instead of the original 15.
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Is that quality only used to increase the fate cost of buying your soul back? Or does it ever become relevant in stories?[/quote]
As far as I know, this quality isn’t used anywhere else today (of course it might be in the future - though it only increases when using Fate for retrieving a soul, so this doesn’t really track the number of times you sold your soul overall).

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Haha, just after posting the above comment, I opened up a bundle of oddities and got my soul back for free!

So funny how these things work. Now to sell it again!

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Congratulations, Myrto! Which card did you draw to get it?

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A Surprise Package can contain your soul, correct? So if you wanted to sell your soul, but have a good shot of getting it back right after, you could stockpile presents from an unsigned message, and wait until selling your soul to open them all.

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Considering that the chances of getting your soul back are 1/1000, you’ll need to open a lot of them. I’ve been exchanging surprise packages with Myrto and ICountFrom0 for months and haven’t seen my soul in any of those yet. I ended up getting it back multiple times from the one’s public card instead.

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And mine never did show up, I paid fate instead.

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Just as you say, navchaa, I got it from the One’s Public card. Haven’t yet seen on from surprise packages.

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I clicked one’s public today, saw some new text I’d never seen before, and thought “oh sweet!”. Then I hovered over the icon and it said “Opening a Bundle of Oddities 100”.

:|

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Getting your soul back from a package is as rare as getting a blemmigan, so save some tears and don’t open packages to get your soul back(because you will probably cry alot if you get your cheap soul over a cool blemmigan).

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Actually, the Fate cost increases each time you pay Fate to retrieve your soul.

Getting your soul back this way raises a quality called &quotKnown For Metaphysical Caprice&quot (you don’t get this quality by finding your soul in a bundle of oddities!). I can’t find a reference to the exact formula of the Fate cost increase, but on the wiki, someone has noted that the third attempt to regain a soul with Fate cost 50 Fate instead of the original 15.

edited by dov on 1/8/2017[/quote]
My &quotKnown For Metaphysical Caprice&quot is at 6 after multiple transactions (fueled more by a desire to increase said quality than anything); the Fate fee appears to have plateaued at 50 for the last couple of iterations. Perhaps that’s the cap.

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So is the starvling cat. The 200 result is shown as distinct anyways, and any number from 1 to 1000 is exactly as likely as the other. Don’t fall prey to whatever the fallacy is that claims luck is transferable. It’s a long shot, but no more than a blemmigan, and it’s better than the other 200 result.
edited by Grenem on 1/17/2017

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[quote=Kaijyuu]I clicked one’s public today, saw some new text I’d never seen before, and thought &quotoh sweet!&quot. Then I hovered over the icon and it said &quotOpening a Bundle of Oddities 100&quot.

:|[/quote]

Yeah, the option used to be at 100 exactly. Iirc when the soul-giving option was moved to 200, the non-soulless option at 100 stayed the same and a duplicate version was added at 200.

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Maybe this is a silly question, but what happens if you get a 200 result but your soul is firmly in your possession?
Someone said above that they think you only get the Devilbone Die. I gather no one here has been able to confirm that? If I ever manage it, I’ll re-post here.
edited by cathyr19355 on 1/17/2017

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[quote=Catherine Raymond]Maybe this is a silly question, but what happens if you get a 200 result but your soul is firmly in your possession?
Someone said above that they think you only get the Devilbone Die. I gather no one here has been able to confirm that? If I ever manage it, I’ll re-post here.
edited by cathyr19355 on 1/17/2017[/quote]

Unless the option has a special requirement that locks if you don’t have the contract it would just give you the die, though I never lost my soul(and never will) and I never got that option from the bundle even though I’ve been on the zee and I have been opening packages like mad for a long time so I guess it’s possible you can’t get that even if you roll a 200?(I never heard anyone say they got it while they had a soul).
edited by The Master on 1/17/2017
edited by The Master on 1/17/2017

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I’ve had it happen on one of my alts (albeit some time ago). You just get the “Something Eclectic” bundle instead if you have your soul and you roll a 200.