It’s still Monday in American Samoa, so here’s this week’s short questions thread!
Hello friends! I’ve managed to Nadir, and have a couple of questions now.
- Representatives of four factions formed a queue to buy off a location of place. I’m closest to Urchins and they are best deal of four in my character’s alignment. But Devils and Dynamos offer so much I can’t resist. Yet I don’t plan to stay Close To them because they are eldritch villains / violent madmen respectively. So the question is: are there any meaning of Closest To except for Counting the Days, price of switching loyalties and Mark of Credit options or I may choose purely of RP reasons?
- I’ve seen mentions of “weekly Nadir travel” there on forums and can’t understand why people do that. Enter costs 5 skulls or 400 echoes, being inside provides an income (not profit) of 0 to rough 150 Echoes, or a certain rare items. So why do it systematical?
You don’t have to sell the location. That is entirely up to you, if it is in character to sell take whichever option suits you best.
Re-entering the Nadir is free - all it takes is some actions and the stat loss on leaving. Potentially it can profitable. Also once you get to end game or are a stat capped player going back in gives you something to work towards.
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omg really? They’ve got a real lot of tea spice from that cinder piece! Question is wrong then, thank you!
It doesn’t take that much to switch closest to factions these days (just a few dozen echoes and all your favors, which can be 0), so if you don’t mind going out of character for a little bit, you can sell the location to someone other than urchins and then switch back to them.
If you’re the RP type though understand that you’ll get a permanent quality that shows who you sold it to. It doesn’t do anything afaik, but it does exist. And while a thousand or so echoes is a lot, it’s far from the end of the world (whereas selling to the revolutionaries might be).
edited by Kaijyuu on 1/30/2018
Closest To is, in theory, about character intent, about whom you prefer in the privacy of your own head. (That said, it does seem to affect an awful lot of reactions from other people…) I suppose the connection here is that you’ve given someone a terribly powerful secret, and you wouldn’t sanely do that unless they were very important to you.
As Kaijyuu said, changing back to the Urchins is not a terrible ordeal mechanically.and will cost you fewer actions than earning the difference in Echoes. However, if roleplaying’s been important to you, then I would suggest making the decision in-character. If your character wants nothing to do with Hell or the Calendar Council, why would he give them such a secret?
N.B. Hell’s reward is the same as the Urchins’; you can safely cut that option out. The factions that pay the heavy stuff are Revolutionaries and the Game. If you really want cash but don’t want to bring on the end of the world (Kaijyuu, I liked the phrase), then you might consider selling your intelligence to them. It can be roleplayed, if you wish it to, as being tempted by the rewards, but after a short period that deep into the Game, Mr. Priest has a change of heart and goes back to his Urchin friends. (I assume the "kind-hearted bringer of Revolution is not the character in this dilemma.) Unlike the normal ways of changing Closest To, selling the Cave has no impact on your standing with your current faction.
Or you could just stick with your Urchin friends. A starstone demark is a fine conversation piece.
Well, you can also sell it to the Game (far less dangerous than hell or revolutionaries) and rp wise use the money to benefit the urchins. Perhaps you do not even want your urchin friends going somewhere so dangerous.
D–n I thought devils give 1500 echoes reward (Dynamites are no question NO of course). Great Game is fine deal then, they’ll bury the secret in a web of espionage with no real use as they always do. Thanks for discussion!
And I have another question. I probably shall ask Failbetter representatives but I feel a kind of shame. I’ve run out of moneys so I’ll abandon my Exceptional Friendship tonight for a month at least. I’ve played all three season’s stories and collected a Locket, a Coin and a Stone, and I wonder if present Exceptional Friendship is required to benefit from season reward? (it was my first donated season so I haven’t seen how such things work)
You do not need to be an EF to get the season tie in/conclusion.
Thanks! Great
Do we have an up-to-date list of seasons and their individual Exceptional Stories, along with the writers?
I know about the “Fallen London stories & the responsible miscreants” thread, but I’m not sure it is still being maintained.
@ dov
Many thanks – and not for the first time! A deep, and not at all gloomy well of the widest and most profound information.
An embarassing question: where is my tattoo located?
I mean… where on my profile can I find what tattoo I have on me?
Your tattoo is a quality, not an equipped item, so for it to show up on your profile you will need to do it manually.
To see your tattoos on your Myself tab just look under Circumstance.
Thank you! Would not have occured to me.
I have a question. If one were to obtain a specialization [ex) Extraordinary Mind, Shattering Force, Invisible Eminence, Legendary Charisma], one needs the corresponding stat to be 200 without modifications. If, after obtaining a specialization, the corresponding base stat were to drop below 200 (via Nadir, prison, etc.), what would happen?
Nothing happens. Your stats drop, but your Specialization stays. You won’t be able to overcap with notability until it’s back at 200 though
Exceptional Friendship is only needed to access the stories in the House of Chimes and to play the beginning storylet of each Exceptional Story. Once you’ve unlocked a story, you can get the full experience without being an EF at all. (As such, subscribing on certain dates lets you access three months of Exceptional Stories with only one month’s worth of subscription.
I have another question. How many patrons can one have? Also, how many proteges can one patron have?