Weekly Questions, Beginning 05/06/2017

Insofar as it is &quotesoteric and mysterious,&quot yes. However, the Dilmun Club is not a club in the same sense as the Partheneum and the Young Stags, which is why it doesn’t fill the Club slot.

Much obliged Gillsing -as I also found out today. About the rat. The other…peculiar, isn’t it? You’d think all would be lost…ah, the oxymorons logic and mechanics throw…

My Renown Constables was converted as expected, and I raised it up several levels… only to be sent this &quot(11 hours ago) [It looks like you missed out on the effects of the Favours and Renown conversion. This should set you right.] An occurrence! Your ‘Favours: Constables’ Quality is now 7! Your ‘Renown: Constables’ Quality has gone!&quot

Thus stripping the recent gains back to Renown 0, Favours 7. Now my journal shows me reaching high, then playing a technically impossible lower renown storylet again :P

EDIT: Funny, this is my #404 post, and it’s about missing data! :D
edited by Shalinoth on 6/7/2017

Apparently you’re not alone, and it is recommended that you send an email to support@failbettergames.com

How many people can you be Seen With at the same time? I’m asking, uh, for a friend.

Much obliged Gillsing -as I also found out today. About the rat. The other…peculiar, isn’t it? You’d think all would be lost…ah, the oxymorons logic and mechanics throw…[/quote]
Renown is specifically meant to indicate how much a faction is aware of your character, rather than Connected’s dual-purpose use for both awareness and favors owed. Robbing the Brass Embassy was one of the original examples when Renown was first proposed - if you fail to rob the Embassy, the devils may decide they have no debt to you, but they won’t forget about your audacity any time soon.

How many types of mood cards are there and what card art should I be on the lookout for?

Two cards:

Unfortunately, both share their image with other (mostly useless cards), so you need to be vigilant not to discard them by accident.

I certainly know of friends who are Seen With at least three people and possibly more, many more. And why not? (Answering for a friend, naturally.)

The Paris bits from Heart’s Desire seem (in my reading, anyway) to presuppose a republic, not Napoleon III; if that be true, one can expect that something had happened, anyway. Can someone who’s played the Empress’s Shadow refresh the memory as to whether all the talk of Berlin was in context of Prussia or Germany? That would give us something definite.[/quote]Having echoed Empress’s Shadow, it appears that only Prussia is mentioned, which is part of what made me ask in the first place. Then again, I suppose it could be that Germany was formed and they’re referring to Prussia in the context of the kingdom within the greater country.

I actually haven’t played through all of Heart’s Desire, but the wiki entry does appear to indicate the Third French Republic, considering the institution names, which only makes me more interested in what happened before 1908 to form an ahistorical Third French Empire …

Ive opened the flute street. Where to go to get to the flute street?

Check the flit, your lodgings, or the carnival, depending on where you are.

How many Counterfeit Heads of John the Baptist are too many, do you think?

I have thirty-five of the things jammed in a cupboard. They’re starting to keep me awake at night with their muttering.

[quote=Plynkes]How many Counterfeit Heads of John the Baptist are too many, do you think?

I have thirty-five of the things jammed in a cupboard. They’re starting to keep me awake at night with their muttering.[/quote]
Never too many! :D
Plus, they are having nice chats with my starving pets. :)

thanks.

I think I did something wrong for the Extraordinary Mind Stat boost. I thought I was supposed to click the link in Ladybones Road, and I did, with 7 notability. But I don’t see a boost–I’m still at 200 plus my BDR. Oh boy–if I messed this up, does that mean I won’t get the stat boost and can’t fix it?
edited by Tay1or on 6/8/2017


ETA: Or perhaps I should have done it with just 5, and I’ll get a card that I need to trigger with the 7? So I need to get to 7 again…
edited by Tay1or on 6/8/2017

I think that’s just becoming an extraordinary mind, the actual boost is on the unsigned message.

Thanks! Wow, I bankrupted myself getting to 7…

At exactly 28 SMEN (no higher, no lower, and 30 is right out), an option opens in the Seeking Road storylet in your lodgings for the “Lower Mysteries”. You need 7 Uncanny Incunabulum in order to play the storylet and you can only do so once, which brings you to 29. At that point, try to get hold of Mr. Eaten’s Calling Card - either request on the thread in the Singing Mandrake (there may be a bit of a wait list) or make one yourself through God’s Editors. But once you have the card, you can go to Winking Isle, the RNG-plagued yet most efficient way of grinding SMEN.

Is there a way to raise Austere without decreasing hedonist? I wuld like to have them both above eight but the Tomb colonies nuked my austere and I haven’t find a way to increase the one without losing the other - save the God’s Editors card.