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Hello, just joined up and hoping to get a question answered. How do I discard/get rid of conflict cards that come up in the deck? The “Youthful High Spirits” card came up and there is no “discard” option available below it like with other cards. There’s not a chance in any Hell, in game or otherwise, I’m choosing one side over the other.
I don’t think there’s anyway to discard it but since the card appears if you have a high amount of both urchin and dock favours, maybe try using up some favours and it’ll disappear?
For what it’s worth, there are no permanent consequences to choosing one side or another on any of the Favour faction cards. The game does not in any way track which side you have favoured, and you can draw these cards an infinite number of times whenever you have enough of both types of Favours. It is simply a way of converting Favours to resources at a more profitable rate than using the “Calling in Favours” storylets around London. Plus there is fun flavour text.
facepalms And I don’t even know why I didn’t consider using favors otherwise. I just utterly LOATHE being backed into a corner, even in a game for fun. I just wish there was an option to negotiate and find a middle ground, but this is a text game with fixed outcomes, so I guess I’ll grit my teeth and suck it up. Thanks, guys!
As it happens, some of the conflict cards do have a third option. And that particular one also always has me rushing to ditch a favour of one kind or another. In any case, welcome to the game and to the forum!
I mean, the Conflict Cards are meant to be a “penalty” of sorts. The factions have opposing interests, and if you try to play both sides you it can come back to bite you. Treat the fact that you can’t negotiate something as a piece of world-building: this conflict is bigger than you.
The mechanics here are common. Most non-discardable cards are penalties, except for a few that are really good they’re protected from discarding by accident. And often the better or intended way to deal with those cards is by changing your qualities to no longer qualify for them. The other most common examples are if your Nightmares or Suspicion raises too high.
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I imagine the intention is to make Favours a ‘use it when you’ve got it’ resource - you can spend them on Renown or cash them in for favours, but you can’t hoard them or your hand will fill up with conflict cards.
So much for the idea of keeping a comfortable number of favors on hand, I guess. Thanks for the heads up on the conflict/punishment cards!
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For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get a general for the Parabola wars. I’ve read through the wiki’s, but I must be overlooking looking something. Please help.
If you started a campaign for the Cats, the Fingerkings or the Chessboard you should have an option to Choose a General in the Dolorous Pavilion. Which requires you to Plant the Seeds first, which you should be able to from the Dolorous Pavilion after playing through either of the short introductory campaigns.
That’s what I thought, but the option doesn’t appear.
Which campaign are you doing? You can only do it during a campaign, and only during some campaigns.
I remember this was confusing the first time I did it (when parabolean wars were introduced).
Reading the wiki now, it seems like you need to
- plant the seed for a general
- start a campaign for cats, snakes, or chessboard
- enter “choose a general” and appoint that general
- finish the campaign
- use the general in 1 more(?) campaign (for his side) for effectiveness upgrade(s)
- then also do the university laboratory project for their final upgrade Begin a Scientific Investigation (Parabolan Generals) - Fallen London Wiki
It’s also possible that the storylet isn’t where it should be. The entire war thing used to be entirely directly in parabolean basecamp, and the pvaillion area is a newer invention.
What’s the value of your Parabolan Campaign and Your General qualities?
Thanks all! Problem solved.
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