Here’s this week’s thread for any Fallen London questions you don’t want to start a whole thread for! Happy Sacksmas, everyone.
Happy Sacksmass! I’m trying to reconnect with the Dilmun Club. I’m a member, but now I can’t find those rascals anywhere. Help please?
What is your current level of Associating with Radical Academics? There are a few places you might need to look, including the labyrinth of tigers.
It’s 7. I already tried the Labyrinth of Tigers but couldn’t find anything there, although I may have missed something…
Your next step is on the golden border opportunity card Inching Ever Closer. You also need to have completed a term as governor of Port Carnelian.
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I’m a new player, and I’m trying to set up an outfit for Watchful, Shadowy, and so on. BUT, whenever I switch outfits, all of my items unequip. I haven’t found a ‘save outfit’ button. What am I doing wrong?
To the right of the Wear line should be 3 symbols :- a star, a pencil and a piece of clothing. Click the clothing to save your outfit. The pencil lets you edit the outfit’s name and the star marks it as your favourite outfit.
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I’m an early PoSI (main stats all 120-130) and I’m trying to raise my notability to get a better job. I think I need echoes to do this— what is the best way for me to grind them? I checked the wiki but I don’t have access to parabola or a ship, nor do I have a newspaper.
I don’t really mind if it’s not the most efficient in terms of echoes per action if it means it is a simpler grind for me— like is there any Unfinished Business that gives anything decent?
One decent way to grind Echoes as an early PoSI is “A Trade in Reputations”, which is to say, the Naga advertising bureau. It’s got a variable freely-adjustable difficulty, so even at lower stats it’s possible to succeed all the checks and make a pretty penny. (It’s what I’m doing with my time right now, and my unmodified stats are hovering around 100!)
It’s also worth mentioning that the item cross-conversion carousel–which is to say, converting Memories of Light into Zee-Ztories into Bottles of Strangling Willow Absinthe into (…) into Memories of Light is an easy early way to get your Making Waves up, too. (It also gives you a whole single extra half-echo item per action.)
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This is really important. Getting comfortable with the cross conversion table and stockpiling the materials should be more than enough for early making waves requirements. At least if you have a comfortable amount of Bizarre, Respectable and Dreaded. Investing some time and resources into acquiring those stats can considerably lessen the amount of grinding making waves afterwards.
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This part is worth emphasising, too. Assuming I’m understanding everything correctly (it’s not super complicated so I don’t think I’m wrong), every point of Bizarre, Dreaded or Respectable you can scrounge up, up to 20, will lower the Making Waves required to gain Notability by 1. This is a nice little sweetener per point if you just want one point of Notability, but if you’re going for multiple levels (like, for example, attempting to get the 5 Notability required for tier-three jobs) it adds up to a lot fewer CP Making Waves required.
… Of course, it’s also worth mentioning that you can only get your first point of Notability by drawing the Slowcake’s Amanuensis card at random, or by getting it donated from an acquaintance. To this end, if you get lucky and draw it but don’t have the MW yet, careful not to buy the Entry in Slowcake’s Exceptionals and then back out of the card afterwards, that’ll dismiss the card. (I did that the first time…)
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Thank you for all this! It’s super helpful! If I understand correctly, I need to have my Bizarre/Dreaded/Respectable stats for when I’m on the card— do I buy an entry and then convert my MW into notability? I’ve gotten the card for the second time already! (The first time I did indeed back out of it 
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You can switch your gear into the BDR gear while you’ve got the card open, that works fine. The way it works is that the option to gain 1 Notability will have a lock on it which requires a certain amount of MW, and this amount is increased by having Notability and decreased by having BDR. (For example, if you’ve got no Notability and your BDR adds up to 10, the lock will be 10 MW. At 15 BDR (unlikely), the lock will be 5 MW instead.) Then when you pick the option, it gives you one Notability, then sets your MW to be the same as your new Notability score.
You can buy the entry in the same visit as getting the Notability, or you can buy it from the Bazaar beforehand, which is one Echo more expensive. It doesn’t really matter, it’s the same item and it’s not consumed.
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So, here I am again, this time with a question instead of an answer.
As a fairly-freshly-minted PoSI (about a week or so now) with base Dangerous a little under 100 and the others slightly over and a whole 2 Notability to my name, I’ve decided to set my sights high and gamble for Mr Apples’s luxury yacht…
And this requires a lot of resources. The Amber I can handle, pickpocketing is easy enough, I’ve got a few Favours in High Places already (and if I need more, I can just do some gardening or burglary), but the other two…
So far, I’ve just been doing A Trade in Reputations to farm Echoes and buy honey for the Comprehensive Bribes (my calculations for the score I tend to get say this should be slightly more efficient than guzzling Romantic Notions-soup, and it lets me train my Shadowy and Persuasive a bit besides) and this works but, is there a better way? And I wouldn’t even know how to get started on the Cellars of Wine. Perhaps Underclay → Glim → Map Scraps → Zee-Ztories → Strangling Willow Absinthe → Broken Giant '44 → Cellars of Wine? But the amount of conversion steps alone makes me feel like that’d be incredibly inefficient.
How far are you in the Labyrinth of Tigers? There’s an option in the breeding of monsters section that gives you three.
Or you could switch your profession and become either a mystic or an author (You can always switch back afterwards. I tried out several professions until I found one I wanted to stay with. Once you’re reasonably far advanced, it can be done quite quickly).
Or you could buy one at the Bridge Without (Bazaar Side Streets).
As I recall, it took me years to evolve from the tramp steamer, I was so eager to get out there at all (and then I went for the sneaky zub)
Good luck!
RD
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I’d considered the Labyrinth of Tigers option, but it requires a Plated Seal, which you can only get from Zeefaring, so… something something the cart and the horse, or something. I suppose it’d be an option to get a cheaper ship just to get out there and catch a Plated Seal, though…
(Weekly rewards probably aren’t a good idea, here, you need five cellars to even attempt the gamble and an additional one for every time you fail the 30% luck check and both of these only give one a week.)
Crafting the cellars in the Side-Streets is… I’d written it off, but actually it might save me conversion actions, depending on what I’ve got lying around… we’ll see how that goes. I’ve already used it once just for the intial few steps, but assembling its components a few times might still be cheaper than scrounging together 25 bottles of Broken Giant '44… I’ll give it all some thought.
Thanks very much for your input!
The gamble – yes. I do remember a thread on here awash with cursing and wailing – but you never know, maybe the RNG loves you! Fingers crossed.
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7 Favours: Criminals → Join the Salvage Party (on the An Implausible Penance card) gets you 2 Bottles of Broken Giant. Not a main grind, obviously, but something to keep in mind as you’re flipping through your deck.
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I recommend getting the cheapest ship first so you can access the Zee at all, before grinding your forever Ship. But I also empathize with players who refuse to sail in anything but the most Zubmersible or magnificent ship.
The Green Gilled Shipwright will be active in late(?) January, so one option is using the rust-bucket and speed-running Gaider’s Mourn. This is… well, for how bad of an idea is, gambling for the yacht might nonetheless be worse.
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