It is always better to get Nightsoil instead of Scrip because 1 Nightsoil sells for 1 Scrip in the Railroad station Bazaars (no action cost) but can be converted for Peppercaps via cards at a 2.5 EPA jump in Scrip.
The other benefit is that the higher-tier bone-buyer pays in Amalgamy x Menace in Rubbery Pies as the side-payout, which also offer 3 EPA in Scrip via the Ealing Gardens pie station.
All of this assumes you’ve gotten to at least Ealing.
edited by Toran on 9/8/2020
Helicon House has some new bones, including two new torsos, and a way to use up all those silly fins.
One of the new torsos is, uh, big.
Dammit we need another source of Narratives that isn’t the Waswood, because with the Waswood it costs 3 actions each time you go and the end result is often “Narrative Machine Broke.”
I am not sure I have had a…broken Narrative Machine? Seems to work fine for me…maybe a ticket?
I think he’s talking about a failure for the Mithracity check.
I think he’s talking about a failure for the Mithracity check.[/quote]
Yes and how failing the check means you waste an action leaving the Waswood.
8 skulls, 8 legs, 4 fins and a tail. 22 menace, 27 amalgamy. 1184 nightsoil and 594 pie baskets. Things are getting out of hand.
[quote=Tsar Koschei]8 skulls, 8 legs, 4 fins and a tail. 22 menace, 27 amalgamy. 1184 nightsoil and 594 pie baskets. Things are getting out of hand.
Couldn’t you do better with Double Skulls? ;)
Would have been a bit of a waste since I needed menace, not antiquity. ;)
So…is getting 4225 Final Breaths and 1030 Memories of Distant Shores (worth 2627.5 E) a good deal for:
42 Bone Market Exhaustion
20 Helical Tighbones
8 Skulls in Coral
1 Bouquet of Eight Spines
4 Trembling Amber
12000 Warm Amber?
It’s an excellent way of getting Final Breaths!
It’s probably not that excellent in terms of overall echo value - you’ve used up bone market exhaustion for a long time, and that 12000 warm amber seems like a lot. But for final breaths, you’re set for a long time!
Bit of new content:
Arachnids and Insects book project in lab
Arachnid and Insect skeletons in the bone zone
Does it seem to me that the Bug Book will be the last book if its type? Between requiring all the other ones, and the action description to start researching, it sounds like it’s the capstone to the whole taxonomical endeavor.
There are still some “holes” in the Skeleton range (130’s, 150’s, most of the 200’s). I’m hoping this just means other skeleton types will be coming from other avenues (like F.F.'s institution) instead of the lab.
I’d think they’ll probably give more types of ribcages.
I highly doubt bugs will be the last of their kind. Maybe they’ll make crabs (10 legs, no tails), perhaps other kinds of animals.
Is it really intended that spiders must not have a head ? Seems a bit bizzare.
Oh my, I think I can hear the Silk-Clad Expert squeal with delight!
And now I have to create a Mammoth-sized Holy Tarantula for a certain sculptress.
As for the head, it kind of makes sense given arachnid anatomy. Perhaps we may get a naturally headless torso in the future?
True, if the prosoma is seen as a torso.
Sounds very tempting for exhibitions, but unfortunately this seems to be rather inefficient. Mechanically it might be worth to consider a thorny mutant scorpion with a stinger.
edited by Scona on 5/7/2021
edited by Scona on 5/7/2021
The odd thing is that Insects require 1 skull, while Spiders require 0. That tripped me up, I wasted a thorny ribcage on a Chimera.
The Insect body plan is convenient for having a variable number of limbs. Up to 4 wings means 6-10 limb slots in total.
As Sir Reginald Monteroy pointed out arachnids (spiders, scorpions etc) have a body organized in two parts (a prosoma, where head and torso are fused, and an abdomen), while insects have a body divided into three regions (head, thorax, and abdomen).
So at least from a fundamental point FCs definition makes sense :)
[quote=PSGarak]The odd thing is that Insects require 1 skull, while Spiders require 0. That tripped me up, I wasted a thorny ribcage on a Chimera.
The Insect body plan is convenient for having a variable number of limbs. Up to 4 wings means 6-10 limb slots in total.[/quote]
Bruno (FBG) — Today at 5:56 PM
This will be in patch notes but: