I think the game will always break on an empty title, which isn’t intentional but is minor enough that FBG haven’t gotten around to fixing it yet. For me, it’s annoying mostly due to preventing me from echoing the tanah-chook card in the tomb colonies.
I should clarify that I only saw that echo when I was past the gate. So, as spoilers go, it was mild, because to know it is there you have to be at the end yourself
In any case, I prefered not to echo what my character saw, so anyone that enters his profile for some reason does not get any spoilers.
You didn’t mention the Unaccountably Peckish, so I guess you don’t use it yet? It gives one "free" SMEN per week; you would need a Starveling Cat to raise UP high enough, then pick the worst option on a black-bordered card (check them on the wiki), then go to the Labyrinth of Tigers and lower UP.
You also will, eventually, need a ship, so if you don’t have the rusty steamer yet, get it. By the way, the Mutton Island is pretty cool.
You didn’t mention the Unaccountably Peckish, so I guess you don’t use it yet? It gives one "free" SMEN per week; you would need a Starveling Cat to raise UP high enough, then pick the worst option on a black-bordered card (check them on the wiki), then go to the Labyrinth of Tigers and lower UP.
You also will, eventually, need a ship, so if you don’t have the rusty steamer yet, get it. By the way, the Mutton Island is pretty cool.[/quote]
I’ve been using it, My UP is only 2 rn, it only works is your seeking is 3 times the UP right? Is a starveling cat the most effective way to gain UP? I’ve been using the option in the Shuttered Palace
Nope, it only works if your seeking is up to three times the UP requirement of the card. (So you should always raise UP to 9 to maximise the chance of drawing a usable card.)
Starveling is indeed the best way, as it gives 3UP per action
Edit: somehow left out the "three times" part, which was the most important bit, whoops
edited by Dudebro Pyro on 1/11/2018
3 times the UP is indeed correct. Or rather 3x UP + 1 is what you can raise your SMEN up to with an UP card.
That being said, the UP 7 to 9 cards are nice even for raising SMEN at lower levels, if you don’t want to lose stats/gain menaces etc with the UP 2 to 6 cards.
Thoughts on the best way to get Destin’s? My math tells me that with my BDR it’s unfeasible to get to 12 Notability on side conversions, which are the only reliable way I know to get Making Waves. Advice?
Scheming at the salon is a good, if slow, way to get a load of MW in one go. certainlx not the fastest route to get 12 notability, but probably the most feasible with low BDR. the other option I can think of is repeatedly marrying, but I’m not sure how far that’ll take you.
Assuming you aren’t able or willing to take the Torment destiny route, the Salon is probably your only option for producing adequate MW without boosting your BDR.
Inviting the Duchess is expensive but a regular success will give you around 40 levels of MW in one go (starting from 1.) I believe that inviting a crooked cross is a more efficient use of scheme, but relies on you having a dependable partner & drawing the card enough times per week.
The marriage option is pretty cheesey but if you don’t care about that then having a friend/alt repeatedly get married with a zee wedding will almost certainly take you all the way to 12 more quickly, assuming you have a way of gathering Organising at a reasonable rate (rats are the best value, but assuming you are going to meet a sticky end it hardly matters what you expend, right?)
Except I skipped right over the Handsome Townhouse, using some other three card lodgings before I got a Length Lease to Premises at the Bazaar. I didn’t know the Salon or Orphanage even existed until I saw references to them on the forums and looked them up in the wiki, trying to find out if they were Ambition-based. I think I did some math wrong earlier, but 12 Notability ought to be possible without it, if difficult.[li]
edited by The Lord Breakfast on 1/12/2018
Well, I finished Seeking. (Proof here -http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/profile/Desirée%20MacGregor - warning for spoilery echoes). Not what I’d call a satisfying experience, but there we are.
If anyone would be willing to share the other endings I’d appreciate it - I’d like to find out about the roads not taken, as it were.
ETA: request fulfilled! Many thanks.
ETA again: yeah, on reflection, I have a lot of things unresolved. If someone would be willing to chat over pm that would be great. Not that I’m even sure what to ask.
edited by Màiread on 1/14/2018
edited by Màiread on 1/14/2018
I am, as always, available for questions via PM.
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever tried and echoed the 77 Proscribed Materials option with the God’s Editor?
I can’t find an echo, so here’s the text straight from my own Deep Archives:
[spoiler]"Ask, and all may yet be well. Seek, and we may yet find. Knock: and listen for the echo."
The Arbiter motions you towards a door at the side of the room. Swags of cobweb half-hide it. Your candle-flame dances in the eyes of spiders. You rap three times on the age-seared wood.
The echo, when it comes, smashes you to the floor like the collapse of a great wave.[/spoiler]
Much less interesting than the correct answer, unfortunately.
Thank you!
What…? It seems to me like your player character is now in some kind of office elsewhere.
A reference to the upcoming Sunless Skies, I suppose? I do know that Avid Horizon is one way to get to space.
Could someone PM me the Hate and Grief endings? I’ve finished with the Salt ending, but I’m very curious about the others.
The phrase "TRAVELLER RETURNING" seemed familiar to me - then I recalled some RPG rulebooks by Fantasy Flight, specifically the Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader series. There is this bit about a Rogue Trader gone bonkers and who had gone on a quest to gain power over space and time - and actually succeeded. His return was often heralded by the statement "TRAVELLER RETURNING".
That said, that Rogue Trader’s name is Erasmus Haarlock - an obvious play on Leiji Matsumoto’s Captain Harlock, who has seen a hell lot of things in his travels.
Again, I really believe that the Salt ending is a glimpse of Sunless Skies.
edited by Rostygold on 1/17/2018
I have seven weeping scars ! It is so well written, this mix of wanting more and not wanting to is just delicious ! well two weeks to go for the next step.
Hoard Skyglass Knives! And if you have the "An implausible penance" card, or access to the Fifth Circle of the Labyrinth of Tigers, you might want to offload your Criminals favours.