The IroNoman Marathon: Season 2

[quote=CameoAppearance]Getting a second gant tattoo of my noman seems kind of silly, from an in-character perspective, so I’m not going to bother. But here’s proof that I made it to the finish line (with a whopping 11 Noman’s Friend left, and about 14 hours before TtH):

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Well done! You should also get an award or special mention for &quotmade it by the skin of your teeth AND in the nick of time&quot!

But for those with extra NF, what do you intend to do? Claim your elemental secret now? Or muck around a bit more, check on melt rates and such?

CameoAppearance, did you pick the Watch Milicent tattoo a pale visitor? If so, care to share the echo to it?
And a question about the participants of this marathon, do you get the Noman card even if Sackmass is oveR?

Yes, the Noman card appears as long as you have a Noman. I have one in my hand as it keeps appearing so much.

Aha, good to know! So my guess is that you can feed your Noman Tears outside the Sackmas season as well.

Yes, Skinnnyman. As long as you have a Noman and Noman’s Friend, you can pour Tears of the Bazaar on your frozen friend.

AhahahAHAHAHAHAHA
You’ve gained 1 x A Private Tattoo of your Noman, Inscribed in Gant (new total ).

[quote=Skinnyman]CameoAppearance, did you pick the Watch Milicent tattoo a pale visitor? If so, care to share the echo to it?
And a question about the participants of this marathon, do you get the Noman card even if Sackmass is oveR?[/quote]
I did! Here you go: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Dr%20Cameo%20%E2%80%9CScary%20Teeth%E2%80%9D%20Thurlow?fromEchoId=11077675

Like other people have said, you keep getting the Noman card (I believe it has Abundant frequency) and can feed tears to your Noman from the Tears of the Bazaar item storylet so long as you continue to have one. None of the options on the Noman card are season-locked, either, to the best of my knowledge. I didn’t have the option of applying pails of snow or sacrificing my PtPT: Lacre this year because I used all of both getting the noman in the first place, but they weren’t in previous years and I can’t see any reference to that in the qualities they require.

Grinding for Tears was the only reason my noman lasted this long; I paid something like 60 Fate to do a bunch of Gallery of Serpents expeditions, including one at the last minute, which got me like one complete bottle of tears, a bunch of airag that sped up trading for it, and some eyeless skulls. All my furious grinding for fate expeditions and Notability to trade for Favourable Circumstances got me a grand total of two extra bottles, which I probably wouldn’t have needed if I hadn’t started the production on the day my TtH hit but before it actually went out. I ended up spending 8 bottles (and 0 pails) to get through three TtHs, starting on the 24th.

Who knows what will happen when you get seven Gant tattoos! #Heptagoat
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Well then, see you in 2022!

I lost 102 Noman’s Friend today from Time, the Healer.

TtH took 114 Noman’s Friend today. I’m curious to see how quickly the NF loss will ramp up at this point, with the next increase being on the 16th I believe. In case anyone was wondering, the apparent NF amount taken each week seems to be along the lines of the following:

Week 1 (1/12 - 1/18): 25 - 55 NF
Week 2 (1/19 - 1/25): 35 - 65 NF
Week 3 (1/26 - 2/1): 45 - 75 NF
Week 4 (2/2 - 2/8): 90 - 120 NF
Week 5 (2/9 - 2/15): 100 - 120 NF

Obviously more data would help, but that’s all based on what this thread has provided.
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I made it. I didn’t keep a track of exactly what I used, because I am not very organised. It was probably 20 something pails and 7 tears. I turned my Noman into an elemental secret today, as TTH was due and I only had 50 Noman’s friend left.

[quote=idyl]For everyone who hasn’t yet, please post your melting info from over the last few weeks.[/quote]Quite happily so. Created the Lacre Golem on the 24th, had 17 pails and 14 tears back then. I then mostly just used the pails for only the initial ToL gain via monocle, and started happily huffing away until I had Taste at 11 (or 12 if the final huff blew up), then cashed in, rinse, repeat. That brought me… er, it to 484%. (*)

I decided I liked the looks of that number, so left it at that. The melting went like 75 on the 31th, 92 on the 7th, and now 116 on the 14th. It’s still at 201%, so I’ll be enjoying it’s company for a little while longer. I also will continue to send it doing the negotiations with Lyme (for the Music-Hall Singer) and my groceries (for my Starveling Brats) while sleeping in for a change.

(*) I can’t help but foster the admittedly dumb, but intriguing idea that the numbers should translate straight into mass - must be the thing with the initial 100 just screaming ‘percentage’. And that leads me to the thought that over the last few weeks I not only had a 650+ lbs. version of myself stomping around the place, but also (especially!) how that must’ve been a show for the rare few onlookers witnessing our ‘shopping sprees’ - I think I’ll put up a special presentation tonight. We’ll be climbing the House Of Chimes, make a ruckus on the top and it will hold me in one of it’s hands while swatting at angry bats with the other. Stay tuned for the headlines…

… well. Maybe I should visit Millicent first. And get her opinion on that. And a nice cup of tea with my tattoo. :)

Lost 108 Noman’s Friend yesterday, on Tuesday 14th (less than last week, go figure).

I have 125 left and I don’t want it to go next week. Emergency Tears, maybe?..

I lost 110 NF this week. By the weeks, that makes:

Week 1: lost 59 Noman’s Friend
Week 2: lost 61 Noman’s Friend
Week 3: lost 95 Noman’s Friend
Week 4: lost 110 Noman’s Friend

And now it still clings to life with barely 18 Noman’s Friend. Woo, I made it! :D

Resources used for my Noman are as follows:
Noman created for 15 ToL on 1/23/17
17 pails of snow, 6 Tears of the Bazaar, for a total of 343 Noman’s Friend

Tears results (I used them for ToL rather than applying them directly, though I think I got less than average luck doing this):
8 Tears uses, then lost first Tear on the last use
1 use, immediately losing the Tear on on its first use
6 uses, then lost third Tear on the last use
3 uses, then lost fourth Tear on the last use
1 use, immediately losing the Tear on on its first use
5 uses, then lost sixth Tear on the last use
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TTH took 114 NF this morning. I’ve been listening to it for a few rounds to claim a few extraordinary implications to get down to exactly 15 Noman knows before popping it for my elemental secret

Anyone looking to beat the March 18th longest unmelted noman goal? The melt rate can get pretty extreme in March :-)

Depending on how extreme the melting is in March, I may have inadvertently set myself up to do so. We shall see.

A little late posting it, but I’m now the proud bearer of a Face in the Snow tattoo.
I bought my Noman at 7 ToL. I think I put 27 pails into it (I lost count), and 5 vials of tears. I might’ve been able to pull a few more pails, but the urchins conversion effectively killed my ability to get storm threnodies. My melt losses were 59, 76, 114, and 96. At the end I had 112 Noman’s Friend left. The Lady in Lilac was rather evasive, and I was worried for a while that she wouldn’t show before TtH hit, but we met with a good 10 hours to spare before Bootsy Mk. II’s inevitable demise.
Congrats to everyone else who made it.

[quote=Bootsy Fallens]A little late posting it, but I’m now the proud bearer of a Face in the Snow tattoo.
I bought my Noman at 7 ToL. I think I put 27 pails into it (I lost count), and 5 vials of tears. I might’ve been able to pull a few more pails, but the urchins conversion effectively killed my ability to get storm threnodies. My melt losses were 59, 76, 114, and 96. At the end I had 112 Noman’s Friend left. The Lady in Lilac was rather evasive, and I was worried for a while that she wouldn’t show before TtH hit, but we met with a good 10 hours to spare before Bootsy Mk. II’s inevitable demise.
Congrats to everyone else who made it.[/quote]

Congrats! If you don’t mind me asking, when was your Time the Healer? The data will help immensely!

It hits ~6:30 GMT Thursday.

EDIT: Uh, 6:30 PM, that is. Whoops.
edited by Bootsy Fallens on 2/18/2017