[quote=Optimatum]
As I understand it, the sorrow spiders don’t have any supernatural powers of persuasion; the Spider-Councils are just really good at running cults.[/quote]
I mean, if a mountain of spiders told me to swear fealty to it, I would. I’m not going to argue with a mountain of spiders.
They possess a supernatural vulnerability to fire. :)
Why is Polythreme so…broken?
This isn’t a lore question, Polythreme really needs to have either the blunt reliance on RNG or the Unnatural Exuberance removed for anything to work.
As it is completing anything from the Jack Of Smiles case is impossible due to both of the above being used at once…and the fact that the whole thing relies on a Quality that resets once UE gets too low, also the new CP system for F/I makes everything worse.
Doesn’t help that the only way to gain enough F/I to do anything is to shell out real money for the Fate to buy your way past that nonsense.
If you just got unlucky: welcome to Polythreme, that’s how it works. There’s a reason I gave up on ever having Romanic Notions - their best source is in Polythreme and I’m not going there if I can avoid it.
Apparently some people have decided it would be a great idea to grind there for profit. And apparently it’s actually quite feasible, if you optimise it properly. I personally would rather waste 1000E on the fidgeting writer than go back there.
On the other hand, if you were physically incapable of getting what you wanted (rather than just getting unlucky, perhaps repeatedly), that might be a bug. Everything is technically feasible, even if mind-numbingly frustrating, and like I mentioned above even profitable if you know exactly what you’re doing. Also, isn’t there an option to pay your way through using in-game items? While that completely destroys profitability (obviously), I remember it being a sure way to just get through the cycle if you needed to, no Fate necessary. Or was even that not enough?
Wait, there’s a guide for this sort of thing?
…Well that would have been nice to know before I started working on the Jack Case! The two rounds on Polythreme need an Investigating of 12, I’ve never been able to get it higher than 9 before my attire throws me out of a second story window.
The Wiki has guides for a few of the more complicated and frustrating aspects of the game, which Polythreme certainly qualifies.
Have you noticed that ‘Mr Eaten’ is seven letters? So is ‘candles.’ So are ‘Mr Fires,’ ‘Mr Veils’ and ‘the Vake.’ ‘A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely’ is seven words, as is ‘the light on the edge of sleep.’ What other such sevens have you found?
edited by GuesssWho on 8/24/2018
Do not pursue this, there will be no happiness if you do.
[quote=GuesssWho]Have you noticed that ‘Mr Eaten’ is seven letters? So is ‘candles.’ So are ‘Mr Fires,’ ‘Mr Veils’ and ‘the Vake.’ ‘A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely’ is seven words, as is ‘the light on the edge of sleep.’ What other such sevens have you found?
edited by GuesssWho on 8/24/2018[/quote]
Not my find, but: "septentrion" means north.
Do not pursue this, there will be no happiness if you do.[/quote]
That’s not true at all!
And of course seven is the number! Even Alexis’ account had the ID 7.
Vis a vis a certain rare success in the Cock and Magpie, what do they say that Mr Plenty did, and did he actually?
There’s two big things that make Polythreme easy to beat.
The first is “paying your way”. It doesn’t take fate - use it in the early stages to pay either Romantic Notions or Surface-silk scraps, both of which you can get in Polythreme.
The second is the two opportunity cards, fractious furniture and zailors in polythreme’s harbor. They have non-luck-based ways of raising fascinating or investigating, and polythreme has few enough cards that if you keep a full hand, you can draw the one you need pretty often.
Polythreme: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic23234-please-let-me-escape-polythreme.aspx#post166771
Fallen London in general: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic23818-useful-guides-and-explanations.aspx
I’m using AotB to improve shadowy, which is by far my weakest stat. If I open the box, will I lose accesss to the carousel?
You’ll never lose access to that carousel so you can do whatever you please with the box!
Excellent, thank you!
Apart from going North, are there any ways you can lose your ship once you’ve earned one?
Yes, in the Option "Put to Zee" in the Wolfstack Docks you can "Get rid of your current ship", but you cannot accidentally lose it.
Cool, was worried that I might RNG an iceberg (or Neathy equivalent). Cheers!