[quote=Hattington]
Also, of your characters I see one killed the Vake entirely while the other did Light Fingers. If any other Ambition-completing players have gone to war with yourselfs, can you confirm any additional outcomes? I’m tickled the Vake-steed came into play once again, but surely there must be some other Ambitions with similar options.[/quote]
I’ve done all 4 ambitions now (it’s quite fast when you protege a new character when main has paramount presence), but my alts mostly exist to feed second chances to ‘ancient drunkard’, who gets all the fate love. And, as of recent S+D cap increase, stat-boosting letters too - those are good.
Can’t be bothered repeating the railway/lab/parabola grind again. Should probably get round to sending one of 'em off seeking the name really…
[quote=Tsar Koschei]Like this bit?[/quote]More like:
[quote=Your greatest foe]There are traces that you fortified as you would have done so, were you you. Which you are. So that’s settled.
Your captain alerts you to fires smouldering on the mountainside above (below). Familiar banners flutter in a Parabolan wind. They are your banners: you have spilled blood below them before. Now it seems that you shall have to do so again. You left them behind to prevent your being followed. You shall have to see about that.
[/quote]The thing with short sentences. It’s tricky to pull off.
As far as I know it just has the one use at the Dome, yeah. As for what it represents I…think it might be a really weird Fingerking? Fingerkings can look like things other than snakes I believe, and there’s a similar being called the Seven-Serpent over at Irem in Sunless Seas who guards Salt’s name.
As far as I know it just has the one use at the Dome, yeah. As for what it represents I…think it might be a really weird Fingerking? Fingerkings can look like things other than snakes I believe, and there’s a similar being called the Seven-Serpent over at Irem in Sunless Seas who guards Salt’s name.[/quote]
It seems to be the cats answer to Fingerkings. All their beliefs, ideals, and dreams made form into the Union. It’s also a pure answer to the King of Cats.
[quote=Winthropx]
It seems to be the cats answer to Fingerkings. All their beliefs, ideals, and dreams made form into the Union. It’s also a pure answer to the King of Cats.[/quote]
I want to pull on that thread about a King… lots spoilers since about half of this is find out during the Parabolan campaigns.
When the Snakes are ascendant, there’s a big-huge snake in the Dome of Scales. This is, actually, kind of odd, since it seems that powerful Fingerkins are usually collections of small snakes rather than one big snake. As part of the Epilogue (i.e. it disappears and you probably missed it), you can ask the Ophidean Gentleman about the snake. He says it was an attempt to create a King for the Snakes, which was only kinda-sorta successful.
So it makes sense that the Cat occupant of the Dome of Scales is (an attempt at) the (true) King of Cats. That seems to be a Dome-y thing to do. And given the Gentleman’s description of creating it, it also makes sense why it needs to meet so many other cats.
Now, when the Ophidean Gentleman told me that, I thought "King" meant like Chessboard King. And it still might mean something like that! A singular power, comparable in scale to the Red-Handed Queen or Beleaguered King. But I thought it answered more specifically why we haven’t seen a Black King/Queen yet, and now I’m less convinced of that.
FYI If you haven’t played the ES about the existing King of Cats, I recommend it. One of my top-5 ES’s in general, and relation of the Cats to their so-called King is probably hard to infer without it.
[quote=PSGarak]I happen to have a pile of Memories of a Much Lesser Self lying around from the Hell-Scarred Gondolier’s card. But a new source was added, in the Cabinet Noir in Balmoral. Cover Identity Elaboration should convert 1:1 into Memories, which will convert 1:1 with mirror-fed.
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Oh, how convenient that I had an unused Cover Identity sitting around. Elaboration was at 3, so converting it gave me…63 (!) Memories of a Much Lesser Self.
Checked it again with another blank Cover Idenity, raised to Elaboration 3, that yielded only 3 MoaMLS. Seems like that old one hat some additional buffs I forgot about…o_O
For me at least, complete the campaign, then go to the epilogue location for that campaign before starting another. My knowledge of the epilogue locations, however, is entirely based on posts on this thread.
Following your advice, and looking back through the thread, after finding nothing in London I discovered some new options in the Dome of Scales. One of which is letting me really rack up Memories of a Lesser Self, due to an option I chose during my ambition. I presume this is the epilogue. Thanks!
[quote=El Mar][quote=PSGarak]I happen to have a pile of Memories of a Much Lesser Self lying around from the Hell-Scarred Gondolier’s card. But a new source was added, in the Cabinet Noir in Balmoral. Cover Identity Elaboration should convert 1:1 into Memories, which will convert 1:1 with mirror-fed.
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Oh, how convenient that I had an unused Cover Identity sitting around. Elaboration was at 3, so converting it gave me…63 (!) Memories of a Much Lesser Self.
Checked it again with another blank Cover Idenity, raised to Elaboration 3, that yielded only 3 MoaMLS. Seems like that old one hat some additional buffs I forgot about…o_O[/quote]
It converts basically all the Cover Identity properties to Memories of a Much Lesser Self - Elaboration, Backstory, Credentials, etc etc. Memories of a Much Lesser Self seem to be treated as 2.5-echo items, treating it like that adds up to you getting approximately the value of your cover identity back. With actions treated as valued at 2.5 EPA. So whatever you had in that cover identity probably took a bunch of actions to get (if I had to guess - backstory maybe, that’s one that can be raised without limit?).
[quote=yetanotherone]More like:
The thing with short sentences. It’s tricky to pull off.[/quote]Obviously I knew what you meant. I just wanted to make fun of "your army armies". :P
You should be able to see the epilogue as long as you finished a Chessboard campaign and did not start a new one.
The epilogue storylet is called "An Empty House" and would be around the middle of the page.
Do we have any idea how each of the three generals, fully upgraded, actually influences your rolls on campaign? Especially with regard to how they differ from one another.