The Rat Market

Not economically useful. But useful for players who are in-progress with Heart’s Desire. I’ve seen several Reddit posts in the past month or two from HD players asking if there’s any source better than Scrap.

I’ve been expecting a Glasswork weapon to show up for a while. But this still surprised me. The other False Season items have been more unique. I enjoyed the writing, anyways.

Also, in-game spring season officially starts this week. With that comes another new 10k Rat-shilling item is available.

That is what we were discussing, yes.

Ray-Drenched Cinder is… somewhat redundant with the Eyeless Skull? Definitely useful for early-game players, as well as HD players that haven’t passed that step yet.

[quote=PSGarak]Ray-Drenched Cinder is… somewhat redundant with the Eyeless Skull? Definitely useful for early-game players, as well as HD players that haven’t passed that step yet.[/quote]Maybe they’re planning on getting rid of the Eyeless Skull choice for Hard/East since it shares a slot with Starstone Demark. That’s the only one that has two items besides the Suit/Frock, but that one makes sense.

Collecting and storing Eyeless Skulls is difficult since those annoying Eyeless Skull cards appear and clog up your deck. To get rid of them, you have to sell your skulls.

Yay, finally have one.

So Reported Location appears during Hard+West and Soft+West. Slightly less rare than had it been only one combination.

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Yay, finally have one.

So Reported Location appears during Hard+West and Soft+West. Slightly less rare than had it been only one combination.[/quote]Way to go!
Hmmm, this reminded me of two great threads that I haven’t seen in quite a while: Acknowledgeable Achievements and Accoutrements and Celebrating good fortune.

Your success will fit like a glove in the good fortune thread. I loved when those were quite active few years ago.

Summer is here and the Rat Market is offering a new seasonal item.

Let me just copy+paste this here too:
Using the great grind from mp’s guide is a bit difficult because of a level 15 of MA is quite hard to achieve. But with this new item, at the end of June, we can equip it among the Bone Harpoon for an extra point!

I think I’m going all out to get the knife this week in case the extra MA point comes in useful in the new serial story.

There is a new item on offer this weekend: Edicts of the First City, each costs 3125 Rat shillings.

I kinda hope that we get Items like the Mirrorcatch Boxes that appear on two separate phases of the Rat Moon.

So you have one item that’s sold when the Rat Moon is either Hard or Blue, and another that’s sold when the Rat Moon is either Soft or Runny.

So, of course the “Diamond Week” comes concurrently with the one-time Summer event, and on the sellable items I have the least stockpile of. A pity. I’ve been reasonably well-prepared for most of the other weeks.
My question is, do we know already with some certainty how the Rat Wind + Rat Moon probabilities work? Is it completely random, or are some combinations more likely and others rare? I mean, a 1/16th chance once every week is bad enough, but if the odds are skewed even further…
I guess I’ll have to sit this one out and hope that the Museum rewards will offer a sensible way to convert them into a Hellworm Saddle…

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It’s 1/9 because both qualities change so you can exclude them from the following week.

Well, yes. :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the forewarning. Managed to throw in 150 Parabola-Linen Scraps for 40 Diamonds, finishing just an hour before the closing.

So much work. And it is just 1/8 of that b___y hellworm-saddle.

During boring (non-event) times, go grind for some Fourth City Echoes. Save them for a rainy day (when the stuff you desire appears in the Rat Market).

Fourth City Echoes are always in demand, and are not affected by seasonal change.

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/L._B.Industries(Guide)

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Prepare your 4th city coins, Incunabula (this is the plural!), Captivating Ballads and/or Parables because the final item of the market will be revealed! The chilling North Wind will blow towards London while the Moon will shift its color to a blue shade.

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Damn, the last item is…: Tears of the Bazaar! I know someone who may very pleased to hoard more!

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Because may of the Feast gifts require Inkling, it is best to pile a bigger stock now because we will only see NW weekend only in March.

Besides the regular gifts, pilling a few dozen Custom-Engraved Skulls is a good investment. You can use two of those weekly on a headless skull and sell it to the Constable for 4 exhaust (value that TtH heals). This is a great way to transform 20E and some Ap into something worth 100E! Or you can use the skulls instead of Brass skulls whenever you wish to convert E to scrip or any other projects.

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