Mr. James Rayner
Posts: 12
1/9/2012
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So, Be honest my friends....
Am I doomed to wait until the incredibly distant day that I manage to purchase a boat before I can get this Confounded key which seems to be the only reasonable way to continue on with my Ambition for the greatest card game in the world?
Because I have been trying - for FOUR WEEKS mind you - To get one single Fire Sermon dream card and have not seen a single one. And I need enough of them to rise to level 5 on the subject not to mention all the OTHER dreams.
The key seems to be the only reasonable way to pay off that confounded Innkeep.
So - are any other means available to me?
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Chris Gardiner
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Posts: 539
1/9/2012
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Mr. James Rayner wrote:
No other Ambition has this kind of story wall!
A slight spoiler for all the Ambitions follows.
Around that level all Ambitions will require the Stone Tentacle-key. It just happened ever-so-slightly earlier in Heart's Desire. The Ambitions are intended to be played across the entire course of your career in Fallen London. They're paced in such a way as to regularly require access to a new parts of the city or certain items, to ensure that people don't burn through them in an unsatisfying few weeks. Congratulations on advancing your Ambition so rapidly, but at the stage you're at, the story of the Marvellous can't be contained by the Fifth City. It involves a broadening of horizons, either to distant shores or strange dreams.
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Rupho Schartenhauer
Posts: 787
6/26/2012
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The Key just got its own sidebar text:
A Stone Tentacle Key?
"Where there's a mysterious key, there's a mysterious-er door..."
No one in London knows where this key is. Or at least, no one who knows is telling. And anyway, this doesn't stop them talking. They say that the one man who knew where it was just vanished one night, along with his boat. They say he was probably eaten by a zee-monster. They say that pirates might have scuppered him out of spite. Some of them say he had already hidden the key before he died. One or two of them say that he sold it to a mad king in Polythreme who gave it to his youngest daughter for safekeeping before being eaten by a Stone Pig. It's probably safe to discount those ones.
edited by Rupho Schartenhauer on 3/24/2015
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Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it.
Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated.
Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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Zeel
Posts: 257
11/29/2013
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Correction: If you fail on the Yacht, you lose 1/5 of your stake, not half.
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http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Zeel - Zeel, also known as the Hollow Hellion. A soulless, heartless, empty individual who will only deal with those who are advantageous to him.
http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Jass The Sly Socialite, or the Devious Rogue, depending where you see her. Jass lives a double life, alternating between the God-fearing, popular socialite and one of the many crime-lords of London.
IF YOU WANT A PARABOLAN KITTEN please send me a social engagement or menace reduction to either account, preferably not Coffee at Caligula's.
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
11/29/2013
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All the expensive ships unlock options on the cards you'll draw. For the most part the Zubmarine focuses on safety, the Clipper focuses on speed, and the Yacht focuses on items. All three will unlock safe options on cards that would normally be luck based (Clipper and Yacht having 1 such option while the Zubmarine has 2).
I can't speak too much about the Yacht since I don't have an account with one yet, but the Swift Zee-Clipper is probably the best ship for actually Zailing. The other two offer a stat to compensate (Respectable +2 for the Yacht, Bizarre +1 for the Zubmarine), and sometimes you just have to go for the ship that feels right for your character.
edited by Sara Hysaro on 11/29/2013
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Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome.
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
11/29/2013
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Yes you can get another Key when you go back to Hunter's Keep.
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
storynexus name - reveurciel
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Mr. James Rayner
Posts: 12
1/9/2012
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Drat, Stuffit, Botheration and FIE!
No other Ambition has this kind of story wall! An item you cant get, save for Fate spending during one holiday out of the year, until the absolute end game or a stack of dreams you may never ever see! I'd rather give him the 5000 Brass, but that doesnt work!
What absolutely terrible story / game design.
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